re: City of Heroes/City of Villians shutting down

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1. I am a subscriber.
2. They released a new expansion pack on August the 23rd, then announced the game was shutting down on the 30th. Douche move.
3. I am upset a game I really like is going away. Screw you.

Yeah, I might soften my stance on GW2 eventually. Right now just going to finish out my time there. Also might try sekrit wurld (after a few months; I find waiting a bit allows new games to work out a lot of the post-live bugs).

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Why even try another MMO?

It's a stagnant genre, and it's been stagnant for years.

Secret World was released as a disaster, by a company that had to restructure right after release due to financial issues. The game might not even be around in a year.

As much as WoW did for the genre positively, it pretty much killed the genre in terms of success for other companies. WoW is so big and developed that it's pretty much impossible for other companies to match their amount of content and quality before they run out of money during the development process. And, as seen with SWTOR, people aren't going to sit around and wait for a game to get up to snuff. They will leave and not come back.