didn't this game get shut down?

[PixelNymph]

the game showed up on my store page but I'm sure I heard the servers got shut down or somthing. that it can't even be played. did they restar the servers or is this a diffrent(ish) game. mayeb a reboot or somthing?

[Running-Target]

You are mistaking Champion Online with City of Heroes, which was bought, run and closed by N.C. Soft.

Read here > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Heroes

[kage1822]

exactly City of Heroes/Villains has never ever in any shape or form been owned or had anything to do with Cryptic

[PixelNymph]

yeah I thought it was tied to that series like an expansion or a reboot. the screen shots are oddly similar.

[ZeeHero]

How can you mistake CO screenshots for COH screenshots? those must have been some screenshots taken on -VERY- low settings.

[kage1822]

I play it all the time, you must be thinking of city of heroes/villains that got shut down

[76561198395028424]

City Of Heroes/Villains got closed down. Don't misconstrue or misintepret that game.

[pirate240]

Cryptic originally developed City of Heroes/Villans, but the development was eventually moved to Paragon Studios, where Cryptic moved on to other projects.

[Trubie]

Marvel Heroes got the smack down.

[The_Cyberchill]

Originally posted by kage1822:

exactly City of Heroes/Villains has never ever in any shape or form been owned or had anything to do with Cryptic

cryptic helped with city of villains development, there was an entire area based on the cryptic logo

[Skabs]

they kept your account but wiped all chars..
shutdown or not the results are the same

[Stormstriker]

Originally posted by Cyberchill:

Originally posted by kage1822:

exactly City of Heroes/Villains has never ever in any shape or form been owned or had anything to do with Cryptic

cryptic helped with city of villains development, there was an entire area based on the cryptic logo

Cryptic still was the developer of the game when City of Villains was made. The devs that remained after a lot of them left NCSoft, were renamed Paragon Studios but that came after City of Villains was released.

[Stormstriker]

Originally posted by Skabs:

they kept your account but wiped all chars..
shutdown or not the results are the same

My characters made on headstart weekend before the official launch are still on my account and I have access to them.

[Infinite Pudding]

Man this opens up old wounds.... Stupid NCSoft shutting down the game for no reason :(

[Asheera]

if this game is dead then I am a necromancer because I am currently playing it. \o/

[Irradiot]

yeah, turns out it was the CoH ppl that couldn't handle the tiff with NCSoft over dev direction, so they got shut down. Now they are running a cash-grab operation called City of Titans that hasn't done anything in years but take ppls money.
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this game continues to have new stuff, but mostly cosmetic. hopefully some new content someday.