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Mister Bison

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Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« on: December 10, 2012, 08:48:03 PM »
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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2012, 09:02:24 PM »
Not deleting it would make sense if they were planning to sell off the game (or at least considering the possibility).
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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2012, 09:06:28 PM »
Not deleting it would make sense if they were planning to sell off the game (or at least considering the possibility).
Or, it's just bureaucracy for you.
« Last Edit: December 10, 2012, 09:13:04 PM by Mister Bison »
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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2012, 11:14:18 PM »
"...we don't know yet what will become of the City of Heroes servers...."

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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2012, 11:31:29 PM »
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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2012, 11:38:12 PM »
"...we don't know yet what will become of the City of Heroes servers...."

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Hopefully that doesn't mean, "We can't decide if we want to use them for Guild Wars 2 or sell them yet."

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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2012, 11:40:11 PM »
"...we don't know yet what will become of the City of Heroes servers...."

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Very interesting.  I wonder what this means.  It could just be bureaucracy.  But if not....

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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2012, 12:33:43 AM »
My impression was that the City of Heroes server(s) were leased by NCSoft.

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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2012, 12:58:51 AM »
"...we don't know yet what will become of the City of Heroes servers...."

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Probably more accurate to say "we don't know yet what will become of the City of Heroes server databases" since the servers were virtualized for shared use.
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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2012, 01:06:37 AM »
Yeah,

Generally when they are done with servers, they get put to use somewhere else

Hopefully in this case, reopened.
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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2012, 01:34:32 AM »
Not deleting it would make sense if they were planning to sell off the game (or at least considering the possibility).
Or, it's just bureaucracy for you.

Yup. It could be either/or at this point.
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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2012, 03:41:28 AM »
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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2012, 04:10:28 AM »
Yeah,

Generally when they are done with servers, they get put to use somewhere else

Hopefully in this case, reopened.

Virtualized servers can be run on any hardware, provided you've got enough horsepower on the VM host.  Reviving the servers would be a simple matter of taking the VMs (Virtual Machines) and running them on a new host(s) somewhere.

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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2012, 04:33:44 AM »
Here's hoping.

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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2012, 05:51:16 AM »
Virtualized servers can be run on any hardware, provided you've got enough horsepower on the VM host.  Reviving the servers would be a simple matter of taking the VMs (Virtual Machines) and running them on a new host(s) somewhere.
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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #15 on: December 11, 2012, 06:12:08 AM »
At first this got me all excited, but then I thought,

"Well, just because a French GM doesn't know what will become of the CoH servers doesn't mean NCSoft Korea doesn't already know...."   :'(   But let's hope I'm wrong. 

And more importantly, let's hope SOMEONE is getting/has gotten enough financial backing together to renegotiate with NCSoft to buy our baby back!  While all the random shots in the dark are firing at unsuspecting targets here and time is ticking by (hasn't it been 2 weeks for Disney already?), has anyone at all who has contact info for Brian Clayton/Melissa Bianco actually talked to them lately about that Korea Times article and the possibility of re-offering for CoH?

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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #16 on: December 11, 2012, 06:16:44 AM »
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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #17 on: December 11, 2012, 06:32:00 AM »
At first this got me all excited, but then I thought,

"Well, just because a French GM doesn't know what will become of the CoH servers doesn't mean NCSoft Korea doesn't already know...."   :'(   But let's hope I'm wrong. 

And more importantly, let's hope SOMEONE is getting/has gotten enough financial backing together to renegotiate with NCSoft to buy our baby back!  While all the random shots in the dark are firing at unsuspecting targets here and time is ticking by (hasn't it been 2 weeks for Disney already?), has anyone at all who has contact info for Brian Clayton/Melissa Bianco actually talked to them lately about that Korea Times article and the possibility of re-offering for CoH?

I've been giving it a bit of time to percolate (and finishing the edits on Melissa's book so she owes me  8) ) before I put that to her.
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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #18 on: December 11, 2012, 07:33:57 AM »
"Well, just because a French GM doesn't know what will become of the CoH servers doesn't mean NCSoft Korea doesn't already know...."   :'(   But let's hope I'm wrong. 
That's what I thought too, especially since, well, I have to admit it, french ones didn't seem to be the most informed. That's why I would like somebody from the US to ask it again: "what happened to my account information".
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Re: Account information still existing, server fate undecided
« Reply #19 on: December 11, 2012, 03:16:03 PM »
That's what I thought too, especially since, well, I have to admit it, french ones didn't seem to be the most informed. That's why I would like somebody from the US to ask it again: "what happened to my account information".

It would also be cool if we could get somebody in to buy the IP BEFORE NCSoft decides to wipe all said accounts off those rented-but-no-longer-needed-since-two-weeks-ago servers.   Timing is everything in a sale.  And if nobody does have the backing to try and buy the IP (again), then it isn't going to hurt us to know that, too.  Sometimes the truth hurts, but I'd rather face it and plan our next moves around it, whatever they may be.