Let me start by pointing out that we have, collectively, made absolutely NO EFFORT at trying to get Turbine to relaunch AC2. Online petitions are pretty useless in general, even more so when they aren't even brought to the attention of Turbine. I think it's about time to apeal Turbine on a mass scale.

I did a little digging and found some members of Turbine's Board of Directors and others who attend the Board meetings. If you really want to do something to bring AC2 back, I think this is the best bet. These are the people who control Turbine, they control the funds, they control the decisions, they are the investors. And if you haven't heard, Turbine did some restructuring recently. Jim Crowley is the new President & CEO so maybe they will be open to new ideas. Former President & CEO Jeffrey Anderson's (murderer of AC2) fate is unknown but rumor is that he will remain on the Board of Directors. Jim Crowley, too, obviously attends the meetings and I didn't include him on this list either.

Below is a list of Board members/attendees. I included their fax numbers & email addresses. Fax numbers because there are free fax sites online, (faxzero.com for example) so anyone with 5 minutes to spare who still thinks AC2 is better than any other MMORPG can do their part in trying to get it back. Most free fax sites fax a page of advertisements included with your letter so that should get extra annoying for them

Email addresses are too easily blocked and I'd recommend spamming them all with letters atleast once a week so FAX or MAIL is probably best. You can get the addresses from their websites, just google the investment firm (example: Highland Capital Partners) and find the person or send it to their (usually Massaschussetts headquarters).

Major Points you might include:
-Turbine All Access Pass
-Advertisements ingame
-Any other reasonable way of making AC2 profitable, these are, afterall, business people
-AC2 is ALREADY MADE, meaning there is 3 years of content, so they wouldn't have to invest any coding for atleast 3 years...
-Don't sell CDs, put Client up for D/L and just sell cdkeys
-Gamers are bored with Tolkien lore
-There are people who still want to play AC2 and have no choice but to play WoW, why give Blizzard that marketshare?

and anything else you can think of...

Anyways, here is the list. Include Jim Crowley the new Pres. & CEO of Turbine and maybe Jeffrey Anderson:



Bob Davis, Managing General Partner - Highland Capital Partners
-Fax: 7818615499 -bdavis@hcp.com

Richard de Silva, Partner - Highland Capital Partners
-Fax: 6506873899 -rdesilva@hcp.com

Stephen D. Arnold, Managing General Partner - Polaris Ventures Partners
-Fax: 2066524666 -sarnold@polarisventures.com

Michael Hirshland, General Partner - Polaris Ventures
-Fax: 7812900880 -mhirshland@polarisventures.com

Alexander B. Suh, Managing Director - California Technology Ventures
-Fax: 6263513702 -asuh@CTVentures.com

Carmen Scarpa, Partner – Tudor Ventures
-Fax: 6177370993 - cscarpa@tudorventures.com?

Dan MacKeigan, Principal - Tudor Ventures
-Fax: 2038631868 - dmackeigan@tudorventures.com?
-Fax: 6177370993

Jeff Patterson, Partner - Columbia Capital
-Fax: 7812902241 - jpatterson@colcap.com?

Jim Fleming, Partner - Columbia Capital
-Fax: 7812902241 - jfleming@colcap.com?

Rohit Dixit, Associate - Columbia Capital
-Fax: 7812902241 - rdixit@colcap.com?

AC2 was OK, but not great. It needs to stay dead. There's no reason now that it would be popular or profitable. It's old. Turbine would just lose more money.

Ok I'll bite.  

I think there could be potential out of AC2 for turbine just purely on the financial front as you listed.   AC2 was basically the first "2nd Gen" MMORPG released and it really failed in the Vanguard Sense.   Good game but it was released far to early and buggy.  The game didn't fail on the gameplay itself but on a ton of other reasons.   Had AC2 been given another year of dev time, the game would still be around today.   When AC2 was released it was far to ambitious for that current generation of hardware.  AC2 had alot of personality with the 3 races and the 2 extras with the xpac.  

I think the easy part for Turbine would be using far less resources required to develop a re-released AC2.   Basically they can take the old AC2 game and bring it up to speed with the current engine that DDO and LoTRO use.   I know the Legions xpac was developed with the same world builder that was used on LoTRO.   

It also would make sense for an all access pass as it really give Turbine 3 distinct games that compliment each other.   AC2 is more sandboxy and is not contained by the lore like DDO and LoTRO as Turbine completely owns the IP and are free to choose how they want to develop it.   It also could be their game that appeals more to the pvp crowd which DDO and LoTRO don't.

Plus the game could be F2P or offer a lifetime sub for a reasonable amount.  Or they include it free with either a DDO or LoTRO subscription to give the customer more incentive to stay subscribed.    Open up 1 PVE server and 1 PVP server.  

I would only suggest this if Turbine has no plans for adding anything new to the AC franchise as they would be better off continuing AC1 in a shiny new package. 

Re-release AC2 and you get instant 500$ from me for lifetime sub.

I'd pay the $500 for a lifetime subscription.

   Sign me up for two:  $1,000 

I miss ac2, would love for them to have a all-acces pass. 

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I would for sure re-up if they brought it back. They could model it after Dungeon Runners, just an opinion.

Towards the end when Legions came out I would say that is what AC2 should have started out with. The game worked and was a lot of fun, but you only get once chance to make an impression it seems and people will quickly move on.

I agree with your major points, they sound like it would work.

I miss my little low level drudge.

AC2 deserved to die, let's leave it that way.

If they updated AC with new graphics, then I might consider it, but never AC2.

Originally posted by Laiina

AC2 deserved to die, let's leave it that way.

If they updated AC with new graphics, then I might consider it, but never AC2.

These kind of statements are starting to get very old

Update AC2 to the new engine build, fix all the niggling stuff that remained at the end and polish the sucker up -- I'd buy a lifetime in a heartbeat!

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