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City of Heroes: Response to Marvel Deal With Cryptic
Stradden
Managing EditorMember CommonPosts: 6,696
Following today's announcement that Cryptic Studios would be developing the new Marvel MMORPG, Marvel universe Online, NCsoft released the followwing statement expressing that they will continue to work with Cryptic Studios on the already exisiting super-hero franchinse, City of Heroes / City of Villains.
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NCsoft has no response regarding the business dealings of an independent company such as Cryptic Studios, however, NCsoft does expect to continue working closely with Cryptic on developing and maintaining the City of Heroes and City of Villains games into the future. NCsoft is committed to delivering to its customers the best games possible and this news from Cryptic Studios should in no way affect the high-quality product that the fans of City of Heroes and City of Villains have come to expect. The City of franchise recently released its seventh major content update in the summer and the next free expansion is scheduled to be released later this year. Additional details of future plans for City of Heroes and City of Villains have been spelled out by Cryptics lead designer, Matt Miller, in an address to the games community. The City of franchise is an exceptional product for NCsoft and we do not expect that to change anytime soon, said Robert Garriott, CEO of NCsoft North America. City of Heroes and City of Villains have cornered the market on comic-book themed massively multiplayer online games and any competition for this space is several years away, so these games still have a lot of open field running to do. |
Subsequently Matt Miller, the Lead Designer for Cryptic Studios' City of Heroes and Villains released the following address to the "City of" communities, stating that they will continue to work with NCsoft on the titles in the future, looking toward issues 8, 9 and 10.
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Hey everyone! Im coming up for air to let you know about some of the impending stuff happening in the City of Heroes and City of Villains games. Its been pretty crazy around here getting Issue 8 ready to hit Training Room, and we hope we can bring you all some exciting news about that in the very near future. By now you may have read about Cryptic Studios and Microsofts upcoming new venture and we at Cryptic want to assure our loyal players that we and the good folks at our publisher, NCsoft, are fully committed to City of Heroes and City of Villains. We have a full team of programmers, artists, designers, and producers devoted to creating and maintaining the best experience in the City of world of games. This team is, and will remain completely separate from other teams working on other games at Cryptic. Like fantasy, sci-fi, and simulation, comic book heroes is its own genre, capable of supporting multiple titles. City of Heroes was created with a single purpose: bring the world of comic book heroes alive. With that in mind, Cryptic is investing resources into our City of team to fully realize its own unique vision. Id like to start out by mentioning Issue 8: To Protect and Serve. This is a hero-centric Issue that finally levels the playing field between Heroes and Villains. We have a ton of stuff being added with this issue that will please a variety of players. It begins the multi-year storyline that continues next year with Issue 9 (title to be announced). I9 brings with it a huge new gameplay system: Inventions. Players will be able to craft Enhancements and Costume pieces for their characters using recipes, and salvage that they find while adventuring. Issue 9 will also have Statesmans Task Force, the Hero equivalent to the Recluse Strike Force. Both of these mission chains are designed for eight max-level characters and have some of the best rewards in the game. Issue 10 is a ways out, but it will bring us an update to an old familiar villain group. This group will have their power center altered and bring about massive changes to the game as a whole. Heroes and Villains will find themselves banding together against a common threat. We will begin to reveal our plans for Issues 11 and beyond over the next year or so. We feel confident that you will be as excited about our plans as we are! So as you can see, we at Cryptic and NCsoft have great plans for the future and want to keep making the City of games exciting and fresh. Our motto going forward is Listen to the players and give them what they want (within reason, of course). Expect a lot of oft-requested features and ideas to be implemented in the upcoming issues! Sincerely, |
Cheers,
Jon Wood
Managing Editor
MMORPG.com
Comments
Oh...
Sue them, then talk them in working with you?
Well, I guess I will drop all my grudges at Marvel...but...that is sooo...weird! Magneto is prolly ruling Marvel or something! Would explain all this evil that rival Microsoft!
Meh, I rarely remove a company from the "ban list", but...that will do it...hmmmm soooo weird.
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
Now what will they do?
Keep playing of course.
Want to ENJOY an mmo?
Dont start a guild and dont be a leader or volunteer to be coleader or captain.
Just play the damn game:)
I haven't put any money toward Marvel, including the X-Men movies, since the law suit... but heck, what do you do in this situation? lol
I suppose that I could continue 'the ban' on the basis that they pulled the stunt in the first place but that could be a bit anal.
Buggers. In any case it would now be moot to avoid the Marvel MMORPG.
Talk about hedging your best, Cryptic.
~Mysk
I just cant see anyone topping CoH. Gonna be nice to see what they can come up with.
And how the gameplay and levelling is.
Cant wait for more info!
/Whesky
SWG, Eve, Planetside 2, EQN, Star Citizen
Get a life you freaking Gamer.....no no, you don't understand, I'm a Gamer, I have many lives!!
My question is...when do we see a MUO(marvel universe online) fourm on here?
Several of the COH fanbois called this one on the fourms a while ago.
I think this will be a good thing for COx from a gameplay POV...I think States and Gecko were holding the game back to an extent...having Posi and _castle_ run things could be refreshing. I am worried about the COH storyline, however...it is common for the second team to lose the focus and go off on stupid tangents...I just hope Manticore is still helming the plot.
So... will this be the next paid expanshalone for the City Of... series? Stayed tuned True Believers! City of Marvel could knock your socks off!
Heh, that would be sweet!
A Rod of Silence means never having to say sorry. -- Dork Tower