Ironblade

But 100 people on 10 servers use exactly as much bandwidth as the same 100 people on 5 servers. You're only reducing the cost of the actual hardware, which is TRIVIAL.

And, of course, both hardware and bandwidth costs are insignificant compared to the costs of a game studio with 80 employees.

Well... pretty much, yes. I think they looked at the numbers and made a decision about the direction they wanted to take their company and CoH didn't fit with the plan. CoH is too small for any decision about the game to have been "essential" to the company's well-being.

Sometimes the parent company of the company where I work makes decisions about our company that I don't agree with. It doesn't mean they're stupid, or evil, or incompetent. It just means that the guys in the U.K. running a business that spans 3 continents have a different perspective and different goals from one small division in the U.S.

LOL. Seriously? You act as if you're carrying out some important task. Really, you're just being a voice of doom and gloom. We've heard stuff like that all our lives, in a variety of contexts. We've heard it on these forums for years and years.

We choose to ignore you. Have a nice day.

hmm..... let's see...... how many business days has it been at this point?


ONE

Maybe it's an 8" floppy disk.

Absolute and utter nonsense. We're not talking about expectations, but about hope. Hope is never false.

Not only am I holding on to my stuff, in the niches I was working, I had tiered bids going down to prices we haven't seen in years. Not thinking about it, I left them up. Almost all have been filled as people started dumping stuff.

If the game does live on, I've got a serious windfall. (crosses fingers)

No, that is not in any way valid.
"Pathetic attempt at an analogy." right back at you.


Short answer: Tough.
Get the law changed if you don't like it. The purchase of the game and your subscription fees for time in the past are over and done with. NCSoft has US law backing them up on this. The only area in which you deserve a refund are in relation to funds paid for services NOT YET rendered (i.e. if you paid for a subscription that extends past Nov 30, for example).

Maybe. But someone pointed out that it's much easier to sell IP (Intellectual Property) than an entire company. Someone interested in buying the game would probably not want to acquire a company with 80 personnel since they would presumably already have staff of their own.

Three months. Nov 30 has been indicated on several gaming news sites.

I prefer George Carlin's explanation.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

Does this outfit make my butt look big?

Yeah, because it uses.... 'pulse dialing' vs tone dialing. I actually remember the phone company trying to convince us to pay to upgrade our phone lines to tone dialing. I told my mother absolutely do not pay a cent for it. They'll upgrade everyone to tone dialing (for free) soon enough because it's better for THEM.

inorite? A total slap in the face!

Good luck.

hmm.... The consensus on Infinity seems to be that you want a ton of corrs on the trial. He gets really hard to kill when his hit points get low and that's exactly when the corrs start scourging for extra damage. Of course, we could be wrong. You can't really tell how much one individual is contributing when you've got 24 people beating on Cole.

I wonder if we could put together a 'roadshow' to travel from server to server to get the Really Hard Way badge for people. Getting a new corr to 50 would be easy enough but that's a lot of iTrials to get tier 3 across the board. I certainly have enough transfers, though. I think I've used two and I bought some when they were 90% off, so I think I have 16 left.

Edit: If this idea gets any traction, it would probably work best to transfer to a common server to start grinding iTrials like idiots. I mean, if I can get the badge for 50 WST assists in less than 2 weeks, I can surely grind a few dozen iTrials.

I'm down to less than 700 points. At one point, I had OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!