GrinningSpade

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Screenshots are way to dark. They should be taken with our gamma corrections in place.

And the short term winner is:

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With a little less help from our friends.
Here we don't get a forum merge with the US yet but keep our 4 servers and avatea will be moderator for awhile at least.


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Until they think of something else.

Not my favorite solution and I do hope it is just a stopgap before we merge completely with servers and all to the US.

Thank you for bringing this news to us especially since it is a Saturday. It makes at least an end to some of the speculation. It is good to know that at least some stopgap measures are being taken.

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asasin and good hmm. Somehow a concept i am not seeing.



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Isn't that much of the concept behind James Bond - picking that as a name would likely get you genericed at character creation though

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Nah, there are hardly any GM's on.

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I would really like to log on and play but if theres even a remote chance that thing are gonna go belly up then I'd rather not.

It weird getting attached to a bunch of pixels on a screen but then again I tend to get attached to everyone of my pen and paper rpg characters (when I ain't DMing, which is rare).

BTW would anyone be interested in an PBEM version of COX ?

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It is weird but yes I have grown attached to these pixels on my screen. And expecting the whole thing to go belly up made me lose incentive to go out there and try to get that badge or be happy with a purple. We need news.

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Same here; while playing an MMOG's at all's a pointless activity at the end of the day it, does seem especially futile to try and level a toon if your entire account might vanish overnight.

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Of course we knew the day would come but knowing its near ruins the appetite.

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I would really like to log on and play but if theres even a remote chance that thing are gonna go belly up then I'd rather not.

It weird getting attached to a bunch of pixels on a screen but then again I tend to get attached to everyone of my pen and paper rpg characters (when I ain't DMing, which is rare).

BTW would anyone be interested in an PBEM version of COX ?

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It is weird but yes I have grown attached to these pixels on my screen. And expecting the whole thing to go belly up made me lose incentive to go out there and try to get that badge or be happy with a purple. We need news.

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If NCSoft is going down the tubes they aint going to be worried about server populations.

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True - but I would have thought that they would be if they weren't going down the tubes.

Seriously: Are you reading the signs and portents as pointing to NCSoft going down the tubes?

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I don't like to talk things down, as it tends to make them worse, but in this case, yes.

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Whoaaa.

Things going from downsizing EU division to NCSoft going belly up? Isn't that a bit to premature?

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Irrelevant. They have to get this sorted out so they know what they can offer us, which while informed by what we want may not be the same thing.

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There is a big difference between can and will. They can offer us whatever they want. Might it not be better if they knew what the community is thinking?

asasin and good hmm. Somehow a concept i am not seeing.

But she is an orphan right?

Orphans Blade
Family Values
Childs Revenge
Weeping Willow
Tear of a child
Crimson Curse
Dagger Dollface

etc

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well what did you choose?

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Personally, he must have chose 'The Regenerating Manus'. Who wouldn't like a character called 'The Regenerating Manus'!?

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I think i could resist but only just.

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Spades a Spade.

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Unless you are playing 500 when it can be a club...

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Or, I'd guess, on the US forums (where we may soon be) where I wouldn't be surprised if Spade is censored.

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I blame it all on Diggis. It was him, with the candlestick, in the lounge, I'm sure of it!

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Actually I used a spade... or was it a club.

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Spade censored? There goes my name.

Stupid silly yanks who are so afraid of bad words they keep converting normal words into cuss words. Right No server merge for me then.

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The question Now What?

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Wait

and

See

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In the end yes. But maybe, just maybe (silly hopeful thinking here), they can listen to us. You know the ones who pay for their bread and butter. What do we want?

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I meant a scenario where the servers stay where we are, we stay where we are.... only with a lot less support and longer delays because its additional for any potential remote U.S administration.

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Yes that could happen. However I am getting the feeling that the value for money thing will get skewed then. Right now I want that full US migration to happen now. I want this mess over and done with not this piecemeal by piecemeal thing.

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Is anyone else not expecting that much of a drastic change? From the looks of things, we're going to get moderated from the US, but that doesnt mean we have to get merged with their forums in my opinion. The two can remain seperate if NCWest desire it to be so. I'm also not sure how downsizing and moving the team from brighton to USA affects our servers in Germany. I'll wait and see though, but the cheapest option for NCWest has to be keeping things as they are as much as possible.

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That's the option: With a little help from our friends.

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Hmm makes me wonder, can you fit no disrupt Enhancements in AS?

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Pity. Oh well if it was easy they wouldn't need us right?

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Dont forget as well, they have only just overhauled the EU websites too, so things may bot be as bleak as they are being rumoured to be.

That said, u would think they would want to keep their playerbase and would want to make them feel valued by keeping them informed when something like this happens.

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Employees will try to improve things like the website. Until one person at the top says: pull the plug. Before he decides to say that everybody will try to safe the ship.

The new website, the mac client, the new issue 14. It does not mean a single thing and proves nothing.

But lets not get distracted and try to stay a bit on topic. The question Now What?

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Any word what's gonna happen to us?

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Afraid you'll all need to be patient to find out what happens with regards CoH in Europe. A whole helluva lot changed yesterday, and it's going to take some time for the folks at NCNC to formulate their plans going forward.

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It's appreciated that this is no longer your prime concern, GR, and not of your doing in the first place.

That said, I'd have hoped NCNC would have formulated their plans in advance, and have them ready to announce when the brown stuff hit the air shifter.

I'm getting the impression the bigwigs were down the pub Monday night and drew up plans along the lines of "we'll close the Brighton Office tomorrow, and when that's done...erm, we'll wing it".

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To be honest, and this is NOT a dig at GR at all, but I find it REALLY REALLY hard to believe that they'd take the decision to downsize (gut) the Brighton offices without also decided what to do regarding the EU community.

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Knowing a few management types that wouldn't surprise me in the least. I have had some bad experiences in the past and learned not to trust them much.

It seems that we have lost the EU staff and with that we are left in a limbo. The question is what will happen next? Rtaher then wait for NCSoft to make up THEIR minds. Lets make up OUR minds shall we? After all WE pay the bills here. As I see it there are a few options.

Leave us alone you yanks.
In this scenario, we moderate our own forum and play on the same 4 servers without a lot of support from the US. Until they decide to pull the plug.

With a little help from our friends.
Here we get a forum merge with the US but keep our 4 servers.

Time to move.
We merge completely with the US. They make place in their server racks and we and the americans get a lot more servers to play with. Plus we can start nagging them on the merged servers.

A new apartment.
Bye bye forum bye bye trusty servers. They make space for us on the lesser populated US servers and we try to pick up where we left.

Fresh Start.
2 months of free gametime on one of the US servers of your choic and everything else gets deleted.

Destination Unknown.
Time to move on bye bye NCSoft. I heard good things about Champions or DC or War or WoW.

So which of these is what you think you will prefer to do?

well what did you choose?

So it is semi confirmed then. If only by no GM response in this thread. Sad news sad news indeed.

Good luck GhostRaptor. Good luck support staff and thanks for your work the past years.

For a game doing fine it sure tries to look not doing fine.

If i were you i would not buy anything at this stage.

Wait until we know what happened at Brighton today.

The classics:

The Hooded KLAW
The blue Claw
Claw boy Claw
Clowny the Claw
Clawed Ripper
Mrowww???
Scratchy the Cat
Clawed Lightning
SnikSnak

Etc

Dang not good news then. My sympathies to those who lost their jobs.

I must say that I to would be willing to flush all my toons down the toilet. If we get moved that's one thing, but flushing them means I will be gone as well.

It seems that the update server is down. And with the whole staff probably sitting in the pub I expect this not to be solved fast.

Source? Linky? Anything? We love to speculate with you.

All i can say now is Doom(tm).