Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
anyone heard of this news?
Pinkerl
Member Posts: 123
i was wondering why Champions Online is not publish by NCsoft like their previous game City of Villains. so i google and found this negativegamer.com/2009/03/21/cryptic-caught-stealing-from-ncsoft/
does why Champions did not publish by ncsoft is cause of that? or no relation? oh nevermind. if this was the cause then it wouldnt make sense. anyway thats some news to me.
Comments
No relationship, other than maybe Cryptic did this because they aren't being published by NCSoft. It was known well before beta that NCSoft wouldn't be publishing.
Ncsoft is not the orginal publisher of City of Heroes/Villans. Cryptic created than later sold CoX to NCsoft, and then began working on Marvel MMO which has now become Champions. Cryptic no longer has the rights for CoX as it's now completly owned by NCsoft.
Cryptic broke away from NCSoft quite a while ago, they have nothing to do with them anymore after selling CoX.
Yea, Marvel Universe.....that did go away didn't it.
But DC Universe didn't and I always thought DC was worse than Marvel. Just look at the movies and see which is more popular now.
Anyway, I would not want to play a game like that where wolverine is running around or what not.....seems wierd.
I loved CoX when it came out and still do in a lesser degree.
I really can't wait for this game!
As far as the "stealing players" argument goes, it happens all the time. It's by no means a secret that Blizzard contacted members of several top Everquest guilds and brought them into the closed beta of World of Warcraft very early in the process.
I dont know thats stealing. I think its a solid model to get the best testers and the best word of mouth marketing. No worse than companies who recruit talent from their competitors
Torrential: DAOC (Pendragon)
Awned: World of Warcraft (Lothar)
Torren: Warhammer Online (Praag)
I dont know thats stealing. I think its a solid model to get the best testers and the best word of mouth marketing. No worse than companies who recruit talent from their competitors
Oh I absolutely agree with you here, hence the "'s.
I think you are confused on the difference between developer and publisher. Cryptic developed the COH/COV game which was published by NCSoft. NCSoft later bought the rights to COH/COV and now develops and publishes the game.
Cryptic were working on Marvel MMO which was going to be published by Microsoft. Then Atari acquired Cryptic studios. So Atari are publishing the game.
they sold their european publishing section to namco-bandai.