Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20170513183742

A small anecdote so that I might offer devil's advocate: NC Soft canceled City of Heroes, fired the devs, discontinued the entire game less than two weeks after a major content-update came out that 80% + of players bought. They said they had tried to sell the game but there were no buyers, Two companies contradicted this saying they were looking to purchase it but NC Soft simply never responded to their negotiations. Once called on it NC Soft just sort of stopped doing damage control and left their fans and investors with their thumbs up their butts.

In game story-wise Statesman, the face of the game for over 6 years had died (for good according to the game devs, who were much more reliable than the production company).

Earlier this year (Over 4 years after the aforementioned thumbs up ass situation) NC Soft finally sold most of the rights to the players trying to rebuild the community from scratch by making a knock off game of it called City of Titans. It will come out early next year. However as recently as this month NC Soft put out a new fighting game with a bunch of the characters from their games, at least 50% of which were cannibalized similar to CoH. You know who they have in their trailers for the game? Statesman! They held onto the rights to that image and in context of both their handling of the property and the internal mythology of the game they are in essence propping up his defiled corpse to try to make some of their money back.

It is just an image, a "cameo", a "skin" - a defiled husk being treated like a $1 whore by the company that destroyed the world he represented.