One thing I do wonder, is how much involvement NCSoft has, outside of the licensing. I mentioned this to a friend who was a diehard CoX player back in the day (and was the one to get me interested...about a month or so before the shutdown.
) and their response was 'Do you really trust NCSoft?'. Granted, they also own ArenaNet, the Guild Wars folks, and have been pretty hands-off there, so I really don't know.
