Well, Im going to dig up some hope on CoH/CoV after all.

Back Alley Brawler (a psuedonym) is one of the developers for CoH/CoV, and made the leap from Cryptic to NCSoft. Apparently, according to this post he made that leap with a great deal of enthusiasm.

BAB (and _Castle_) have both been straight shooters and fan favorites in CoH/CoV for... years. And its hard to maintain pessimism about this move in the face of what BAB had to say in his post. Getting gloomy about corporate hand outs in official emails is one thing. Staring that much enthusiasm in the eye and say "your wrong", well, thats just being contrarian.

So, Ill go ahead and retract what I said earlier. Im willing to take BAB's word for it that this is a good thing, because he hasnt steered us (the fans) wrong before. Time to whip out the frying pan and prepare to eat some crow.