CoH Players Salute the 'Surviving 15'

by Adrian Bott Apr 10th 2008 at 7:30PM

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, MMO industry

Since Massively reported Melissa 'War Witch' Bianco's comment (from the Heroic Weekend at Omega Sektor) that the City of Heroes/Villains live team had been cut to only fifteen people in the days after CoV's release, the reaction from the player base has been surprise, appreciation and gratitude. They are as impressed as we were that a drastically cut-down team had managed to deliver some of the best content so far, including the Invention System and auction houses.

So who were those fifteen stalwarts, now dubbed the 'Surviving 15' by the forums with a nod and a wink to the 'Surviving 8' of CoH backstory? After some debate, Matt 'Positron' Miller has taken a moment off working on Issue 12 to settle the issue.

Some of the NCNC staff are still known only by alias, but the list is now all but complete:

Matt 'Positron' Miller
Christopher 'Back Alley Brawler' Bruce
Floyd 'Castle' Grubb
Ghost Widow, true identity as yet unknown
Melissa 'War Witch' Bianco
Constellation replaced by Joe 'Hero 1' Morrissey (story bible)
Jay Dougherty, aka JLove, aka Sexy Jay, the costumes guy
Ken Morse (Art Lead)
Nick replaced by Don Pham (environmental/3D artist)
Brett replaced by Graham
Ray 'Blue Steel' Snyder (design support)
Serdar 'Lord Recluse' Copur replaced by Mynx (Producer), true identity unknown
Richard (AP/Build Engineer)
Aaron (Lead programmer)
Garth (who moved over to Core Tech before the acquisition)

Ladies and gentlemen, you who kept the content coming and the quality high despite losing 75% of your staff back then, we salute you.

Tags: city-of-heroes, city-of-villains, cryptic, cryptic-studios, developer, developers, development, ncsoft, positron

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Snorii said on 7:46PM 4-10-2008

Heh, that's interesting to see an image that you've made using the demo function in CoH. I remember I kept moving them around slightly trying to get them to line up better.

Cheers, and a huge thanks to all the developers did with such low manpower!

Darko said on 11:12PM 4-10-2008

I just started playing CoX a couple months ago and I REALLY enjoy it. I'm actually the one that's been sending in the CoX screenshots for OneShots (Not the one with the zombie, though) for the past few weeks.

The game is pretty damn fun and I have the utmost respect for the devs that stayed on the team and chose the stay on the team when they could have left after NCSoft bought the full license. Wow, that's a long sentence.