{"id":34284,"date":"2012-09-05T05:36:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T05:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/09\/05\/taimatsu-maru-help-our-community-save-our\/"},"modified":"2015-02-21T12:20:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T12:20:24","slug":"taimatsu-maru-help-our-community-save-our","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/09\/05\/taimatsu-maru-help-our-community-save-our\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-34284 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/09\/05\/taimatsu-maru-help-our-community-save-our\/attachment\/34285\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2012\/09\/tumblr_m9rgxsSjaq1rfuc1to1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/09\/05\/taimatsu-maru-help-our-community-save-our\/attachment\/34286\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2012\/09\/tumblr_m9rgxsSjaq1rfuc1to2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/09\/05\/taimatsu-maru-help-our-community-save-our\/attachment\/34287\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2012\/09\/tumblr_m9rgxsSjaq1rfuc1to3_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/09\/05\/taimatsu-maru-help-our-community-save-our\/attachment\/34288\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2012\/09\/tumblr_m9rgxsSjaq1rfuc1to4_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/taimatsu-maru.tumblr.com\/post\/30784958697\/help-our-community-save-our-game-city-of\">taimatsu-maru<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Help our community! Save our game!<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>City of Heroes has been cancelled by NCsoft.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>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.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Save this game<\/strong>, and save these people. Save the developers that put their hard work into this game, and worked on content until NCsoft\u2019s 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\u2019s keep it going.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Just petitioning won\u2019t be enough.<\/strong>\u00a0Call. Send letters. Mr. Taek Jin Kim, CEO NCsoft Corporation 1501\u00a04th Avenue, Suite 2050 Seattle, WA 98101 USA Tel: (512) 225-6359 or 206-588-7200<\/li>\n<li><strong>Show our support for this game in person!<\/strong>\u00a0(No date yet, taking roster now.)\u00a0NCSoft (NA\/EU) 6801\u00a0N. Capital of Texas Hwy, Bldg 1 Austin, TX 78731 &#8211; (512) 225-6359<\/li>\n<li>NCSoft loses 6 million in quarter.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/TFiZdc\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/TFiZdc<\/a>\u00a0<strong>City of Heroes takes the fall for the mistake of Aion.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Lastly:\u00a0<strong>Cryptic\/Perfect World still owns the *engine* to CoH.<\/strong>\u00a0Because they own Champions Online, it\u2019s unlikely they\u2019ll extend the engine license to a competitor. Call them! Save CoH! (650)-590-7700\u00a01001 East Hillsdale Boulevard Suite 800 Foster City, CA<\/li>\n<li><strong>More information can be found here:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/CoHmasterpost\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/CoHmasterpost<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/09\/05\/taimatsu-maru-help-our-community-save-our\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4215,252,4217,3829,4216,3569,3832],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34289,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34284\/revisions\/34289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}