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City of Heroes: Breaking: NCsoft Trademarks City of Heroes 2
MikeB
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Superannuation, an "information-sleuthing" website, has uncovered a number of interesting new trademarks, including what appears to be not one, but two trademarks filed by NCsoft for "City of Heroes 2."
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So there you have it, is City of Heroes 2 in the works? We sure hope so!
UPDATE: NCsoft responded to our request for comment with the following:
“City of Heroes is a flourishing franchise and continues to be the world’s most popular super-powered hero MMO. While we cannot comment on City of Heroes 2 at this time, NCsoft is proud of City of Heroes’ success and is looking forward to future product launches associated with the franchise, including the City of Heroes Going Rogue expansion scheduled for release this July.”
Trademark details can be viewed here.
Via Superannuation
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Nice find...it was filed yesterday....
The only thing that makes me sad is that it was filed by NCSoft
Ugh...at some point Devs will look outside the box.
Give me a open world and better combat, I will surely try it!
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Who else would file it? O_o
NCsoft owns the IP!
You missed my sarcasm....I'm aware only NCSoft could file it...
I'm sad because I know it will get published....struggle for 2 years and then get all its super cool features after the graphics have become dated.
Ugh...at some point Devs will look outside the box.
Well I don't agree with you. First it takes more then two years for graphics to be out dates (LOTRO graph are so -not- out dated) and it might cause a surprise...
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ooo sure hope so, directx 11 superhero game would be so much win... CoH is always my go back to MMO. I love it.
Better NCSoft than Cryptic
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My thoughts exactly!
thirded.. i played both CoH/V (or CoX if you prefer) and Champions, still would rather play CoH/V than the latter..
Question: Where did mmorpg.com get that CoH2 graphic?
Forthth... if such a word exists.
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The image is called coh2fake.png so it's probably shopped.
"Hi!! Champions Online Coffin! Good to see you! I'd like to introduce you to a friend of mine. This is Nail."
Then they had sex. And, the adage applies.
Thank you, I guess I should have checked stuff like that!
How many superhero games will the market support? It's a niche genre. I would think three as the absolute maximum.
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Ill try this when it comes out.. CoH was my second MMO ive ever played, so its got some special place in my heart.
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This is bad that this info was already released. I say this because most mmos are announced around 2 years b4 release. This one is most likely gonna take at least 3 more years+ to release. Hype is what kills many games, but if a game is announced that much before release, hype will surely kill it.
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Superheroes have been a niche MMO genre so far, but in the broader world of entertainment Spiderman and Batman were some of the biggest movie franchises of the decade; all I am saying is that the potential for a blockbuster is there, as far as the suits are concerned.
A necessary condition for me to consider playing CoH2 would be for them to drop the restrictive class system, tank / healer / dps. Those archetypes do not resemble superheroes to me, that was always my complaint while playing CoX. I would also hope that they reduce the repetitive instancing, but by far the biggest think is to be making superheroes instead of classes that are renamed ports from fantasy games like D&D.
Cryptic is trying a Customer Development approach to MMO creation.
so true
As for those who are slagging CO and saying this is final nail in the coffin. Its 2 years minimum until this new CoH gets released. That is 2 years of new content and patches to fix a broken game. Look what Vanguard did in 2 years, or AoC in 1 year. Pretty sure City of Villains was released a year or two after City of Heroes.
CO is far from perfect (very far) but 2 years is a lifetime in an MMO and whole lot of improvements are made in that timeframe (especially if the devs are pressured, as they are by the huge number of subs that left the game).
MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds
-Solid non level based game
-Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
Trust me, by the time this and DCU are out, Champions will be dead. Not that its entirely bad, but there just isnt enough game in it.
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How do you know Champions won't be around in two years or doesn't have enough content. Are you playing Champions Online? Do you have inside information from Cryptic? Are you an industry insider with unique insight?
Or are you hating CO because it's popular. CO isn't perfect but it isn't the dumpster fire people make it out to be.
dude...age of conan is dying and pretty much dead. have you actually played it recently?
CO prolly wont suffer the same fate but with its outdate quest system and lack of anything new, i doubt it will last longer than another year or two
popular?
CO has a low population, most people dropped subs first month (i was there believe me) The game isnt popular, its more infamous in the mmo world. People who have played it know its bad (me) people who havnt heard its bad, it doesnt have a good name. They havnt gave good content since release, nothing that keeps you longer than a week of playing. Cryptic doesn't seem like they care, they just want money, period, and of course who doesn't, its a business, but they are takin short cuts and using microtransactions and shit.
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lol... You want them to make all the mistakes that Cryptic made with Champions all over again?
You may not think superheroes in the comics fit into the defined roles of tank/healer/dps, but if you think of them as Ranged Attack / Ranged Support / Melee Damage / Damage Absorption, they still break up into certain classes as evidenced in the formation of most superteams. Yes, some characters have more than one role, but they are generally your Superman types, and those should only be 'special' classes ala the coming Incarnate class.