Almost 2 old age ago , iconic Superhero MMO City of Heroes wasshut down for goodness . Amidst several kickstarted spirtual successors , one developer has give away they ’ve initiated lecture to resurrect the IP – and potentially even make an prescribed subsequence .
https://kotaku.com/city-of-heroes-goes-out-with-a-roar-and-a-bang-5964842
belatedly last year Missing Worlds Media successfully kickstarted City of Titans , a ghostlike successor to City of Heroes progress in the Unreal engine – and fans of the defunct Heroes were agile to support it – only a month after appearing on the crowdfunding platform , City of Titanshad more than doubled its destination of $ 320,000 financial backing .
However in a new meeting place post made yesterday on the Titan web , Missing Worlds Media CEO Nate Downes confirm that since Summer , talks have been going on between himself and publisher NCSoft , who hold the right to City of Heroes , to potentially get City of Titans turned into part of the Heroes IP :
The proposal as it stands right now ( this is not a concluding cast , just the current proposal on the table ) is this :
The CoH IP would be spun to its own troupe , to handle licensing . This company would itself license the existing locomotive from NCSoft for the creation of a upkeep mode , using a binary written matter of the i23 server .
The subsist user database and lineament are not part of this arrangement at this time , nor is the source code .
An arrangement is to be made to license the trademarks to the various Plan ezed project , CoT , Valiance and H&V , to create a family connection , and to permit each to drop the “ Spiritual ” portion of successor . This intend they can make references to the original game if trust , and to start the expansion of partnership . This could be expand for any of them , should the desire be there .
An arrangement is also to be made for the Atlas Park Revival projection . As part of the informal correspondence we have with them , they would be leave an official seal of approval , and the CoT game build would be licence to them , to produce a kind of “ CoH 1.5 ” and migrate people off of the classic biz engine before it finally becomes unsuitable ( we expect this to happen around when Windows 9 is relinquish , due to binary compatibility ) . This can be done because both APR and CoT run on Unreal Engine 4 .
By being its own house , the licensing company can also pursue other avenues which were unavailable before .
The other plot Downes refers to – ValianceandHeroes & Villains – are MMOs that began development in the backwash of City of Heroes ’ demise , that could tolerate to prosper from any prescribed connection to the City of Heroes IP as part of this deal – however later last night Valiance Design Director Nathaniel Vogedingetook to Facebookto corroborate the game would choose not to be include , branching off into its own , unique property .
So whilst this stack has a mass of potential riding on it – and as Downes express several times , this is something that is far from being finished , considering talks only start in March – there ’s now a lot of promise that , whilst the original City of Heroes is all but move forever , we could see a City of Heroes 2 ( and maybe even more ) after all .
[ Titan internet , viaPC Gamer ]
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