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Forum Name: City of Heroes
Topic ID: 63
Message ID: 11
#11, RE: Sad news: City of Heroes to go offline
Posted by Star Ranger4 on Sep-03-12 at 11:10 AM
In response to message #10
>Food for thought: NCsoft bought out CoH from Cryptic in November 2007,
>which will soon be five years ago. Cryptic is now owned by Perfect
>World Entertainment. Assuming the game's engine was licensed for a
>5-year period, and PWE refused to renew the license (why would they
>agree? NCSoft are their direct competition in the Asian MMO market),
>NCsoft would have no choice but to shut the game down.

That actually makes more sense than the rumors that were flying around in chat on friday; that it was solely financial because they'd lost money in the second quarter due to overuns in producing Guild Wars 2 and Aion