Okay. So many thoughts. So little time.
1.) Yay new team trying to buy...WHATEVER IT IS YOU'RE TRYING TO BUY...from the NCSoft folks. Keep up the great work. IronWolf, thanks for everything. C'mere. *hugs* Okay, now get off me. You smell like dog food. Blegh.
2.) Regarding CO...whatever you do, DON'T BRING UP COH IN A CHAT CHANNEL ON CHAMPIONS ONLINE. Those people damn near chased me out of town with pitchforks! Hahaha. I kid, I kid. But in all honesty, I believe that a huge portion of the loyal CO players - in their heart of hearts - know that a big reason why nearly half of their gaming population even exists is because we all needed somewhere to go in attempt to satiate our COH thirst (no matter how poorly other games matched up in comparison). I think it's developed a bit of a bad taste in some of CO players' mouths towards the COH refugee community (and the COH players being all "LONG LIVE COH THIS GAME SUCKS" certainly isn't helping, granted) - but just my two cents. *shrugs* Still, I hope CO continues on if/even after COH reborn / COH2 comes out - the game really isn't that bad, I think. And I have managed to find some nice people on there. Oh, and....
It had potential to easily out-do CoX, but failed utterly due more because of trying to appease the wrong players constantly, and a tendency away from moderation. The tragedy is that, unfortunately, CO was doomed long before CoX was even close to being shut down. The developers were just way to backwards, or they were forced to copy other bad mmorpgs and the like. Things like korean-style 10000 hour grinds for very trivial things rather than actual content only made it worst, along with over-buffing or over-nerfing things every time, or forcing the holy trinity to be required for the fire and ice rampage, CO's identity was destroyed over a long period of time by a lot of mistakes.
This, this, and this. I was talking to someone from CO on a chat channel the other night - nothing confrontational or argumentative, just idle chat - and they said that one of the reasons why they preferred CO over COH was because in CO, if they wanted to create a gun-slinging blaster type WITH sorcery/magic attacks WITH a damage-deadling fire sword, they could do that; but in COH, such character ideas/concepts weren't all that easily accessible. Lmfao. My feelings towards this opinion actually very much mirrored my feeling towards CO in general...very confused by a lot of things that are in theory SUPPOSED to be good things, but just come off as random and difficult. But, granted, each player has a right to like or not like certain things about a game. So to each his own! C'est la vie.
3.) Someone suggested only doing 1 - 3 servers at first, or in 'beta stage' or whatever. I concur. I think that'd be smart - if/when the game first starts back up again, I don't think the same numbers will be there from back in November 2012.
4.) I'm all about the new devs putting an Ascendant statue in-game. I was fortunate and lucky enough to be able to RP w/ him a couple times. He was a pretty incredible player.
5.) I'm not sure if ya'll have seen, but all of the efforts here on COH Titan have tooooootally spread over to the CoT Forums (they've started a thread about it - you could tell it was a bit of an elephant in the room over there). Regardless, I really hope that game continues on as well. I'd love to see where they're at with things a year from now (even though my main home will be in COH still). We should go show them some love.
6.) Also, everything I've said here is all just in theory b/c we don't even know for sure if we'll be getting the game back. This is all just hopeful/wishful thinking.
...But fudge, I wanna go back to Paragon.
