It seems a source has revealed to MMORPG.com that City of Heroes was indeed profitable, costing about $4 million per year to run and earning about $12 million. The source who asked to remain anonymous wanted to make sure the truth was told about the real reason the game was shut down. It seems that reason was the game was not profitable enough for NCsoft to devote time and resources to and CoH was the "weak link" in their lineup.