City of Heroes is Shutting down

I am in complete shock and im in tears after getting this news City of Heroes is the first MMO hell the first game of any kind i ever played it changed my life... I founded and led Rainbow Alpha Force for 6yrs. Ive met so many people ingame that have become wonderful friends offline, I was honored to be behind the first Rainbow Prom in any MMO http://gaygamer.net/2007/06/city_of_heroes_holds_rainbow_p.html. I feel like I've lost a best friend

You will be missed
http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/news/news_archive/thank_you.php

Actually gutted! This was my first ever MMO :/ well guess im gonna download and run invisible storm for the last few days ever :/

Any definite date btw?

I think Paragon should get a kickstarter thing going to buy themselves from NC Soft.

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Alternatively, the Stonewall could set up a kickstarter to buy Paragon from NC Soft. :p

This was my first ever MMO also, I'm very sad to see it go. Although I haven't played it in awhile, I did go back every so often to look at changes, etc. Many good people on there that will be missed. :(

Titan Network is trying to figure out a kickstarter and are planning to contact NCSoft and Paragon Studios the link below tells what they are gonna do

http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,4877.0.html

Awesome! I'll definitely contribute! :D

ok so here's why CoH is shutting down sadly PWE MURDERED IT

The reason CoH is being shut down is that Perfect World games (the owner of STO and CO) is also the owner of the Cryptic engine, which runs CoH. When NC bought the CoH IP they didn't purchase the engine; they licensed it for five years from Cryptic. That's why the Cryptic logo remains on the splash screen.

Now Perfect World wants you to play their games - Champions especially - and they are killing the competition by denying NC a license renewal. This leaves NCSoft with no choice but to pull the plug because they no longer have legal rights to CoH's codebase. Perfect World knows that Champions is the only other superhero MMO on the market. If you're looking for a new home, make an informed decision.

I am NOT leaving STO but HELL WILL FREEZE B4 I EVER GO ON CO

the sunset event is planned Nov 30th :(

That's really crappy of PWE, but not surprising come from our Evil Overloads.

Neither CO nor DCUO compared to CoH it made them both look like the red headed steo kids and yeah i understand why they did it doesnt make me like it and yes dcuo has been f2p for awhile now

Well I will definitely not play CO. I'll go to DCUO before I do CO.

However: If it's just because of the graphics engine, surely with a kickstarter campaign enough capital could be raised to create a newer, better graphics engine. Possibly even enough to also buy themselves back from NCSoft.

to clarify Cryptic created the engine then leased the leased the engine to NCSoft for 5 yrs the lease run out and just like a sleazy landlord PWE kicked them out to position the game they own CO at the top... I dunno who is running PWE but seems to me a smarter more profitable move woulda been to acquire paragon studios and CoH and keep it going better product and production company Paragon Studios was created by the devs that left Cryptic to sdedicate themselves to and nurture a game they had come to love Paragon Studios did more in the few years they had control than Cryptic ever did... those people did not deserve to be tossed out like that.

This really and truly breaks my heart. This game was my first MMO and I've had an active subscription since September 2005. It's a dirty, underhanded tactic that PWE is pulling and they're hurting a lot of people doing it but I'm sure to them it's just business, well.. gamers aren't mindless cyber junkies that are all going to automatically go over to CO just because its the only option left available to them, and if that's what they do think then their little market projections are seriously in error. I don't think they realize the ramifications of alienating an entire player base like this.
I will definitely miss this wonderful game and hope that they do find a way to bring it back or even to product a sequel MMO like GW2 but with a completely redesigned proprietary engine.

Oh and just in case there's any need for clarification in regards to my personal stance on the matter: The blood waters of Gre'thor will turn to Triexian Bubble Juice before I set foot in Champions Online!

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Oh and just in case there's any need for clarification in regards to my personal stance on the matter: The blood waters of Gre'thor will turn to Triexian Bubble Juice before I set foot in Champions Online!

You and me both!

After a lil over a month NcSoft finally responds and this is what they had to say ...

City of Heroes® Players and Fans,

We wanted to let you know that your voices have been heard and your concerns have been taken into serious consideration. We appreciate the overwhelmingly constructive and positive messages in the emails, notes, and packages you've sent in support of the game. It has not been an easy decision for us to close Paragon Studios® and prepare to shut down City of Heroes. We've exhausted all options including the selling of the studio and the rights to the City of Heroes intellectual property, but in the end, efforts to do so were not successful. City of Heroes has a special place in all of our hearts, and we want to ensure its reputation and the memories we share for the game end on a high note.

Once again, we will be holding events throughout the process of preparing for the game's end, and we encourage players and fans of the franchise to join forces and enjoy their time in a game that we've enjoyed supporting for more than eight years.

The NCSOFT® Team

**read between the lines** Please stop sending us mail, petitions and what not we dont give a damn what you want our decision is final go frak yourselfs

I'm sorry to hear that your fist MMO is shutting down, Geo. Like you, I have a special connection with my first MMO: Dark Age of Camelot. Though EA, the company that bought Mythic Entertainment, (the original developers), have elected to keep the servers on the eleven year old game up and running for the three or four thousand active players, everyone knows that there are fewer days ahead than there are behind, in the official life of this terrific game.

At some point, loyal as the company has been to the playerbase, business sense is going to kick in, and it'll be a devastating day for me. Luckily, in our case, there are private servers that some die-hard fans have put up, that will allow for continued gameplay, long after the game is officially shut down. I don't know much about the tech behind CoH, but I suspect that since the announcement, someone in the community has likely undertaken an effort to get a server running, if it's possible. Here's hoping, for you and all of the other community members! Hopefully NC Soft will be gracious enough to leave any private servers that pop-up, alone, for the community to enjoy.

This whole thing gets me thinking about the longevity of STO, and what will become of it once the servers are ultimately shut off. Considering the amount of money (in the hundreds or thousands for many), that people have unloaded on lockboxes, C-Store items, etc, I would like to see them release a server application with all of the in-game items unlocked on the client side, when the time comes.

I'm not terribly tech-savy, and what I'm suggesting is likely a pipe-dream, but with customers, on average, dumping so much more money into their MMO experiences these days, beyond the traditional cost of the box and subscription fees, I'd like to see gaming companies give something back to their customers and supporters, at the end of the game's life.

I'm curious as to how you all feel...!

when I think of what I've put into Coh the time the energy alone the $ is separate it was $24 for the original game then I bought the collectors ed that was $60 then CoV was $90 anther $20 for the Good VS Evil edition then another $40 for going rogue not to mention the hundred I spent on special packs power sets etc ... yeah I feel like we are being tossed aside

This was my first game as well, and it will always be the nearest and dearest to me. I eventually leveled 25 charaters to lvl 50. I was there from issue 7 (Destiny Manifest) on. It makes me happy to see the outpouring of emotion from fellow players, and I have made some incredible friends in COH/COV that I still know to this day. I will always cherish the memories.

yeah i have a tons of friends *some of which I have brought to STO with me* and a ton of memories