Monthly Archives: September 2012

A Cold Summer

adevalokidottir:

“Hey Summer I’m home!” Marie yelled as she walked into the house she shared with summer. Casually throwing her new rifle on the counter, bending over to take off her shoes,”Summer? You home?”She yelled again as she didn’t receive a response,”Must be out and about.”She thought as she emptied her pockets of her keys, cigarettes and phone. Setting the contents on the counter as well she walked up the stair to the shower, not hearing her phone go off.

Half an hour later, Marie emerged from the bathroom,her blood red hair still wet. She looked around the living room and frowned,”Where the hell is she, did she go on vacation again and not tell me?”She muttered as she walked to the counter to get her phone and call Summer. Opening it, she tilted her head seeing she had a new message from an unknown number,”The hell?”She mumbled as she opened the message,

             ‘You are receiving this message due to recent interactions with the freelance superheroine known as Naienko, aka Summer Rainault. This individual has gone missing. You are hereby requested to join in the search for her.’


Marie’s eyes narrowed as she growled at her phone, setting it down to keep her from smashing it. Her friend, her sister was missing and she had no clue. It felt as though her heart was breaking along with the marble of the counter as she punched it, her pain and anger shattering the stone and bringing blood from her hand.

Without another thought, she turned to run up the stairs to her room, changing into her black pants and halfshirt, before opening her closest and pushing back the clothes. Popping off a wooden panel she put in to hide her guns, so she wouldn’t upset Summer. Grabbing her knives and two black pistols she closed the door to her closet and quickly put on her boots and grabbed her phone, keys, rifle and cigarettes and opened the front door,”Where are you Summer?”She thought before closing the door.

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pleasedontsqueezethegreymatter:

Last Friday, NCsoft announced that it would halt development on City of Heroes effective immediately, and shut down the servers for good at the end of November. This came as a shock to everyone, most of all the people at developer Paragon Studios, some of whom had been excitedly advertising things only weeks away from release as recently as the day before. They came to work on Friday and were basically told, “we’re shutting down the game. You’re all fired. Be moved out of the office by the end of the day, and don’t forget to tell the players before you lock up.”

Hard data is tough to find, but the latest estimates indicate two things:

1. NCsoft lost $6 million last quarter, primarily due to the under-performance of properties such as Lineage and Aion. Neither of which is on the chopping block.

2. City of Heroes brought in $10 million in profits over the past year.

If my math is right, that means that shutting down CoH is going to INCREASE those losses. By about $2.5 million per quarter. And that’s not even counting the losses they’ll suffer due to how many MMO players they’ve now alienated, particularly with the way they’ve treated the dev team at Paragon Studios. Which the players aren’t going to let anyone forget, I promise. Treat your employees like crap, and even if they have to take it lying down, we don’t. Treat your customers like crap, and we’ll resist. We’re going to make noise. We’re going to write letters. We’re going to get the word out about this. We’re going to make sure every gamer in the world knows how little their support and your own employees mean to you, NCsoft. We’re going to fight to save our city, because that’s what heroes do.

That’s what we are doing.

In less than a week, we’ve amassed over eleven thousand signatures from players who refuse to go down without a fight.

And while it’s still too early to tell if our efforts will bear any fruit, NCsoft is at least listening. Now is the time to act. Don’t let them up off the mat — fight for your city. Fight for our City. If you haven’t signed the petition, sign it now. If you have a CoH account, log in and use it. If you don’t, it’s free — give it a try.

The players deserve better than this. The developers deserve better than this. Paragon City deserves better than this.

Now is the time to be a hero.

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taimatsu-maru:

Help our community! Save our game!

City of Heroes has been cancelled by NCsoft.

  • The employees of Paragon came in this morning and, without warning, were informed that CoH is shutting down. Most of them were fired that moment without any previous notice.
  • Save this game, and save these people. Save the developers that put their hard work into this game, and worked on content until NCsoft’s poor marketing came to stop them. Save all the people who dearly love this game and all the people they met on it. There are parents with their kids who play their games together, and married couples who met through this game. City of Heroes has been around for eight years, and continues to make a profit. Let’s keep it going.
  • Just petitioning won’t be enough. Call. Send letters. Mr. Taek Jin Kim, CEO NCsoft Corporation 1501 4th Avenue, Suite 2050 Seattle, WA 98101 USA Tel: (512) 225-6359 or 206-588-7200
  • Show our support for this game in person! (No date yet, taking roster now.) NCSoft (NA/EU) 6801 N. Capital of Texas Hwy, Bldg 1 Austin, TX 78731 – (512) 225-6359
  • NCSoft loses 6 million in quarter. http://bit.ly/TFiZdc City of Heroes takes the fall for the mistake of Aion.
  • Lastly: Cryptic/Perfect World still owns the *engine* to CoH. Because they own Champions Online, it’s unlikely they’ll extend the engine license to a competitor. Call them! Save CoH! (650)-590-7700 1001 East Hillsdale Boulevard Suite 800 Foster City, CA
  • More information can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/CoHmasterpost

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