Fanty

Not going to hit on the issue of if the issue being delayed is good or not, just address a few things that have come up.

The idea that i19 being late is analogous to us as players wanting to be late with our payments isn't really a direct comparision. It would be like us, the players, saying we were going to start paying NCSoft an extra dollar a month and then saying that we were going to be late starting that. When NCSoft is late delivering us expansion content, they're still delivering us the vast, overwhelming majority of the rest of the game that is paid for. If we didn't pay our fees, we'd be giving NCSoft nothing at all. So, apples and oranges as far as the comparision goes.

The 40% of the player base thing in regards to PVP'ers. I get that the point ACTUALLY wasn't that 40% of the player base at any one time was made up of PVP'ers. The point was that the number of PVP'ers back in the day would be equal to 40% of the population now. Also, that they'd been willing to honk off a number of people equal to 40% of today's game population making (apparently) icky changes to PVP. However, the way it was presented was a bit dodgey and left many with the implication that the statement was indeed that NCSoft had screwed over 40% of it's player base. Very... Fox News. ;D

Lastly, it all comes down to this: NCSoft and Paragon Studios is a corporate entity designed to make money. If you don't like the way you're being treated by said company, stop giving them your business. I got fed up with constant rate hikes with my Cable and so I dropped them. Cable, like the game, isn't something I need to surive. Also, if you're serious about motivating change then making complaints on the forum isn't really all that productive. You're a paying customer at that point, and even if you're an annoyed paying customer you're still paying, which is what said corporate entity really cares about (sorry to say it, but it's true). The way to make a company stop doing business the way it has is to make it less profitable for them to continue doing business that way. The implication made is that the company isn't as profitable as it has been in the past, but aside from the look-in audience that the game got in Q3 of 2005, there doesn't seem to have been these huge fluctuations in the earnings even looking at the provided graph. Yeah, there was a downturn recently because the entire economy turned down. People were worried about being evicted from their houses, losing their jobs, etc. But the City franchise seems to be doing about as well as can be expected. So, unless they see a serious drop off they're probably going to keep on keepin' on. The bottom line is this: If they're not doing what you think they should be doing, why keep paying them?

Edit: OK, I lied. I will mention one thing about the delay, and it being good or bad. I'd rather have had KOTOR2 late and complete instead of on time and being what we got. So, that influences my feelings on delays more then a bit. :P

Global: @Fanty
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Location: Santa Rosa, California
Height: 6'1"
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Most Recognizable Server Toon: Fantastigal, Sky Shrike

See, in those situations I just let the idiot that keeps doing dumb things just go off and... die. Don't help, don't run over to insulate said person from their own stupidity. Let. Them. Faceplant. After they rack up a good amount of debt for it, they'll either quit or stop being stupid.

Yeah, I'm on the same page as most of the other people it seems. If you want the name back you've given to somebody else when they're not going to use it, that's something that needs to be established up front. If you don't let them know, you don't have much ground to stand on when that name moves somewhere else as far as complaints go. You can be annoyed, but it's your problem that you didn't work things out to your satisfaction up front.

And just to ensure there's no confusion, I gave away the name "Triumph" to a friend, who then passed it along not too long after to somebody I didn't know from a hole in the ground. Was I annoyed? Sure. But I was annoyed at myself for not letting them know that I'd rather have it back if they were no longer interested in it.

I met my big goal, namely leveling my SS/WP brute from 41 to 50. Picked up a few levels in the teens to reach 20 on a couple other toons, but the 50 ding was the long and short of it.

Not sure if it's been suggested before, but why can't we just get a function where we have the option to only get emails from people that are on our friends or global friends lists and our Supergroup? I mean, I can do it on most forum software, why not on the game right?

I gotta love how everyone is saying that the emote menu should have stuff added to it in a patch as opposed to having you customize it yourself. The point with adding or changing the emote menu is that the current menu doesn't meet your approval. What if it does for somebody else and they don't want YOUR menu version updated to their client via a Dev released update? What if another somebody else wants a different modification of their emote menu? The point is, making it customizable by individuals is FAR better then making some big, across the board update that will still leave plenty of people thinking that it's not what they want.

I mean, that just seems totally obvious.

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The whole thing sounds fishy. If this character were such an obvious problem, why is it that it was fine and dandy to be around through all five anniversary badges (Which I saw that the character has)? Yeah, I get that somebody has to report it and some slip through the cracks, but slip through for FIVE YEARS? This sort of thing has gotten bad everywhere of late, all it takes is a report and since nobody wants to spend the time to investigate, they just err on the side of caution.