City in the News Again - Shutdown Buzz & Backlash

The Gamasutra article, Behind the Scenes at the Paragon Studio Shutdown,  has been mentioned multiple times at several different sites or at least spawned new articles & discussion about City of Heroes and its closure. --> Polygon, Kotaku, Escapist Magazine, PCGamesN, French Tribune, VG247, ShackNews, DragonConMMO News.

Is it strange this MMO gone nearly half a year is still garnering such coverage? If anti-NCSoft and Negative publicity continues to shine on them, can they stand it?   The brand is so tarnished now, I would half expect a complete logo and name change for NCSoft to try escape the stigma they've now garnered as a canceler of so many MMO games.  So far Dungeon Runners, Auto Assault, Tabula Rasa, Exteel in addition to City of Heroes. Of the others I heard a few wistful remarks about Dungeon Runners sense of humor (Cardboard weapons?).  And of course I heard some press from Tabula Rasa due to a lawsuit Richard Garriott brought against NCSoft.   While some of the other game closures may have been justified by poor performance and low player count NCSoft actions have been questionable in the past.   City still seems to have caught the gaming community as a whole by surprise and to this day doesn't seem justified. 

I can imagine NCSoft is wondering how long can the Shutdown backlash continue?  Stockwise their shares are worth about half as much as they were last August.  They clearly expected us to shrug our shoulders and move on and are hopelessly baffled that we aren't behaving anything like that.  

In just a few weeks is the anniversary of the release of City of Heroes ..  I always looked forward to it.  Usually something would happen, like a new issue.   At least a new badge -- and some player spawned events to celebrate.    It won't be the same this year.