Report Comment - Blue's News

Report this Comment
Use this form to report the selected comment to the moderators. Reporting should generally be used only if the comment breaks forum rules.

Re: NCsoft: Nothing Had Been Decided on Selling City of Heroes

Dec 6, 2012, 13:00

Ceribaen

The Half Elf wrote on Dec 6, 2012, 11:41: Jivaro wrote on Dec 6, 2012, 11:32: Wait, what does Perfect World have to do with it? Does Cryptic still have some kind of say in the CoX franchise? Was about to say, CoX was run by Paragon Studios, which was the majority of the Cryptic crew that created it, and Cryptic sold it/left it and went with Atari until it was sold to Perfect Worlds. That being said, I wouldn't mind Perfect World buying it and updating the engine to Champions Online/Star Trek Online's. Not sure if it was posited here or on Ars. But the rumour was that something with the way the sales/split originally happened, PWE actually owns some aspect of the rights to the CoX IP. There was a licensing agreement in place but it just expired, and since PWE has their own competing product -- weren't going easy on NCSoft for re-licensing it. So NCSoft cut their losses and closed up shop on CoX. The other component was that there may be some eastern corporate world politics going on that we just don't have a view on, and CoX was a casualty of that.

Subject

Optional
Message

Email Password Remember Me

If you don't already have a Blue's News user account, you can sign up here.
Forgotten your password? Click here.