OniMeteorix Posted April 28, 2019 Posted April 28, 2019 Quick question/comment - I had a toon on Torchbearer. I was leveling her up. Stepped away from the game for a few hours. Came back and the toon was gone. I don't have her. Recreate her again, and am told that the name has been taken. Did I just lose a toon?!?!?!?! Yes. Don’t get super attached to your toons. Rumor is that it might pop back up.
qaholic Posted April 28, 2019 Posted April 28, 2019 Thanks. Weeping. Need more shards. Programmer at your service if ever needed.
robertodigital Posted April 28, 2019 Posted April 28, 2019 Quick question/comment - I had a toon on Torchbearer. I was leveling her up. Stepped away from the game for a few hours. Came back and the toon was gone. I don't have her. Recreate her again, and am told that the name has been taken. Did I just lose a toon?!?!?!?! Yes. Don’t get super attached to your toons. Rumor is that it might pop back up. I get that there's probably going to be a wipe. In any case, I'm just happy that people stepped up to do what they are doing, and reviving this game. Kudos and many, many thanks to you!
drfortune Posted April 28, 2019 Posted April 28, 2019 I'm an 'old man' now but was in my 20's when I was given my first gift subscription to CoH back in 2005. I had played WoW but couldn't get into it - The CoH community was always the friendliest and most mature crowd. Broke my heart when they shut it down, but having logged in [with actual NPCs and tons of fellow players!] again after all of these years has brought me back in time... I get that my sole hero might get wiped - again - but it's WORTH IT.
Basonj92 Posted April 28, 2019 Posted April 28, 2019 I have already made 10 toons, the thing I missed so much about this game is the possibilities it provided for us "alt-oholics". I sat in the queue last night for over an hour and a half before being able to play and it was worth every second. Thanks again for bringing this back to us.
Daruvian Posted April 28, 2019 Posted April 28, 2019 I just want to thank you all for your hardwork and thank this community for being awesome. This game went down soon after my father passed away, and it was instrumental in helping me keep my head afloat. I've been able to reconnect with one of my best internet friends to play this again after all this time and couldn't be happier. Now I'm trying to convince my fiancee to join in on the fun, hah. Thanks and please let me know if there's anything I can do. Donations, free pizza, someone to guard the server room with their lives, you name it!
blizofoz45 Posted April 29, 2019 Posted April 29, 2019 Why the heck can’t the owners of these IPs just open a kickstarter??? I’ve seen some of the donations people put in and out of over 20,000 people there’s going to be at least ONE person who could fund a legit server for years. Sub out the support staff and be done with it. There’s an established audience ready to fork over good money ffs...just take it and get it done already.
ducklorange Posted April 29, 2019 Posted April 29, 2019 Why the heck can’t the owners of these IPs just open a kickstarter??? I’ve seen some of the donations people put in and out of over 20,000 people there’s going to be at least ONE person who could fund a legit server for years. Sub out the support staff and be done with it. There’s an established audience ready to fork over good money ffs...just take it and get it done already. Because accepting money for what is basically stolen property is kind of illegal? :P
blizofoz45 Posted April 29, 2019 Posted April 29, 2019 Why the heck can’t the owners of these IPs just open a kickstarter??? I’ve seen some of the donations people put in and out of over 20,000 people there’s going to be at least ONE person who could fund a legit server for years. Sub out the support staff and be done with it. There’s an established audience ready to fork over good money ffs...just take it and get it done already. Because accepting money for what is basically stolen property is kind of illegal? :P I said the owners of the IP. NC Soft in this case.
WraithWRX Posted April 29, 2019 Posted April 29, 2019 Why the heck can’t the owners of these IPs just open a kickstarter??? I’ve seen some of the donations people put in and out of over 20,000 people there’s going to be at least ONE person who could fund a legit server for years. Sub out the support staff and be done with it. There’s an established audience ready to fork over good money ffs...just take it and get it done already. The game was running a profit when NCSoft killed it in the first place. They just didn't want to keep running it, but also didn't want to give up the IP, so they refused to sell.
blizofoz45 Posted April 29, 2019 Posted April 29, 2019 Then sell the IP. I’d donate to that. I don’t know what the operating costs are on running servers with no content development but it’s obviously affordable out of pocket. Without a billing dept, legal and marketing fees, things aren’t likely to get out of hand. Part of why crowdfunding works better than the sub model is it only takes a few donors with deep pockets as opposed to thousands of subbers who only contribute pocket change every month. I just look at MMOs like Pantheon and how 5 years later how difficult (and expensive) it apparently is to build a game from scratch. CoH is done and has a pretty big audience.
Vaporous Posted April 29, 2019 Posted April 29, 2019 Then sell the IP. I’d donate to that. I don’t know what the operating costs are on running servers with no content development but it’s obviously affordable out of pocket. Without a billing dept, legal and marketing fees, things aren’t likely to get out of hand. There was an organized fan effort to try and buy rights to continue COX during the last like, half, of the three-month "the game is going to close", and as I recall, NCSoft didn't want to come to the table to treat, or at least not in any form that would have let the game continue.
Rose Posted May 30, 2019 Posted May 30, 2019 Awesome! Thank you all so much. Any chance we could get a live server pop counter? Maybe instead of three red dots, and actual count???? https://forums.homecomingservers.com/status/
Rajah Posted June 7, 2019 Posted June 7, 2019 Has there been an update to the number of classes created? I'd love to see class populations.
eldriyth Posted June 7, 2019 Posted June 7, 2019 Has there been an update to the number of classes created? I'd love to see class populations. 90% Brutes 10% other classes
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