How much is riding on City of Heroes: Going Rogue?

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Personally I don't think that City of Heroes is in as difficult a position as the author implies. For months now folks have gone on about how Champions Online would be the end of CoH... well, last weekend there didn't seem to be any lack of population, and for the whole weekend CO was FREE! If anything it might say more about CO's situation, and the fact that a 5+ year old game has more appeal to many folks than a shiny brand new game on its free promotional weekend. I'm happy to have the competition, because the developers know now that if they slack off there is someone ready to eat their lunch. Going Rogue sounds better and better the more we hear about it... I for one, think it bodes well for CoH's future.

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@d.hutch

I agree. I really tried to like Champions Online but it's just a disaster IMHO. I've totally given up on it.

Right now I'm taking a break from CoH while i gear up to play MW2 & L4D2 for a couple months. I'll be back in time for the Holiday Event they throw every year; skiing down the mountain hovering outside Pocket D.

I'm eagerly awaiting Going Rogue so i can have some new adventures.
Especially if they update the graphics a little (even though they're still better than CO's by a lightyear; CO's gfx make my eyes burn).

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first of all, you are missing the entire point of the writers article, second, both games can coexist and thrive together, they cater different people and both can have their loyal fanbase, stop this mentality that this mmo will kill this mmo because, its false and stagnates the genre.

The article is about how unsafe are NCSoft games from NCSoft and partially explains the TR tragedy, NCSoft does not care about a games performance or even if it can sustain itself, it only cares about huge profit, so games are not judged in the merit of if they can sustain themselves, but on the merit of "if the money I give give more investment when in the bank or not".
This alone makes any and all NCSoft titles unsafe and impossible to predict, yes CoH might be thriving under players eyes and suddenly the plug be pulled just because NCSoft decided its better to put the money in the bank and collect investment instead.

That mentality will give short term money, but makes NCSofts reputation worse and worse.

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