Another_Fan

Another one that doesn't know the movement he claims to represent

That would be a community founded by

1, The people who couldn't stand the idea anyone would be able to buy celestial armor. (god forbid anyone not t9 look good)

2. The people who cheered Posi going ******* over AE and taking badges away from people (whats a 100 hours effort to a badger)

3. Rationalized the devs changing store bought items after they had been purchased (What you expected to get what you paid for ?)

4. Whenever there was a nerf, rush to justify it and deny those affected any right to compensation.

5. The same people who could with a straight face tell their "Friends" CoH is healthy when it went from over 200,000 subs to somewhere around 30,000 - 40,000

The CoH community that was great was the one in the game, not the one on the forums.

Actually angry people tend to live longer. It keeps them going.

Not buying the plan isn't heckling. What is being heckeled are the attempts to sell the plan.

That paragraph has the ring of truth.

Despite the ignorance of people that should know better. This isn't the first time players have decided to "Save their Game" it won't be the last and in no way shape or form has it changed the way companies shut games down.

In the past you have had exactly the same "We won't let it die, we will revive it ourselves attitude". Exactly the situation you describe prevails. These games are escapes from reality, pleasant dreams that must be put aside with morning's blazing light of reality.

At a guess then you aren't a programmer.

I see you don't even read your own boards or know the community you are claiming to create.

Tabloid reporting ?

The people you talk about never saw a problem in anything the devs did with this game. NEVER. When the devs were forced by overwhelming weight of failure to change or fix things they would both change their positions and forget they were ever anything else so speedily Winston Smith would boggle at it.

You are correct. Their capacity to ignore absolutely anything is truly stupendous. They ignored the fact that people rejected the changes they endorsed in this game. They ignored the fact that the games revenues had and continued to decline and called this healthy despite the fact other MMOs even older ones had managed to grow with the greater acceptance of computer gaming.

There is nothing short of the complete logical breakdown associated with religion that can explain how anyone could look at CoHs sales and say "But we were doing so well". I mean my gawd Comic book charcters and interest in superheros are at their absolute zenith and this game couldn't get any upswing from that ? If that doesn't let you know it had deep problems nothing will.

Yes I mean it's not like you can tell if a movie is a success after the first week. How much has GW2 sold ? 100 million ? 150 Million ? sounds like failure to me.

How are your efforts to thwart the unicorn invasion going over there ?

Oh I suppose that was just lighthearted tom foolery not full on insanity.

Becoming ?? BECOMING ??

For 8 years these people have insisted that every bad decision made concerning this game was for the best. They insisted that every group of people that left the game was for the best. Now, they find that NCsoft doesn't care to have them around and they are shocked and upset that they aren't receiving proper consideration ?

You do understand the GW business model ? They have succeeded in their system and are now making plans for inexpensive to produce expansions and the budget for GW3.

Oh just following up on the implications of Tim comparing their community to Noah and the ark.

Well seeing as we are in a biblical frame, it looks like I now know where that cult predicting the end of the world last year wound up.

Enjoy your ascent, hope it isn't an ascent the same way you lot described CoH as healthy and doing well.

LOL have you checked your membership ?

Has TonyV been hearing God the All Mighty's voice now ?


Well that does put a different face on this.

No it will be a community run by the nuttiest of the nutty. A true case of the inmates taking over the asylum.

Makes my point that we had a case of the gamblers con going on*. You had a very large base come in and what was left were just the people that didn't see failures as failures.


*The gamblers con, is a swindle where you make yes/no predictions to an initial large amount of people. You always divide the set of marks in two groups and make opposing predictions to each group. At the end, you have a group of devout believers who are easily fleeced.

That is the real nail in the coffin. If you were to buy CoH now you would need to staff up and then spend at least a good 3-6* months while the new people learned the codebase, before you could even start moving forward.

*Yes I am an incorrigible optimist.

The funny thing is at least Arcanaville got paid for astroturfing, not that you could ever pay anyone enough to clean up the Posi Droppings or deliberately mislead pvpers that things would be coming their way. For most of these people they won't even get the pat on the head from the devs they crave.

At what point do people wise up and realize they have been used ?

I don't see anyone not wanting them to succeed.

What I see is a few people being accurate about its chances and people that violently react to the assessment.

Really have you given champions online a try ? I have played with people there that are recreating peacebringers and warshades. There seems to be very little limit on the concept for your character in that game.

The delusion isn't that the companies have people to manage their image. It's that NCsoft cares about what the Titan Network people do with the possible exception of reading the boards to see if they need to send a C&D letter for the emulator.

I really enjoyed their thread about the invasion of ncsoft sponsored unicorns. Had to wonder if they would be issuing secret decoder rings soon

Yeah

Before now I am sure you would have just been a whiny loser that would have pestered mods until they made the thread disappear. God forbid people talk about things you don't like

I hope they enjoy it, looks like a fun B.S. session going on over there. It's also nice to see that they have something to take away from this