JayboH

Originally Posted by CatMan

I get dibs on the character name: Breaking Wind.

Originally Posted by Starsman

They usually have that covered as part of the distribution deals, and in the worse cases (bookstores do this a lot) they may just tell the store to destroy the copy since they cant do anything with it. There is certain level of trust (along with some ratios that cant be exceeded) between publishers and big chains like GameStop.

Originally Posted by DarkBlaster_NA

Personally, Those years of computer science and hacking lessons from my brother aren't going to be wasted.

Originally Posted by Captain-Electric

Maybe GW2 is good for something after all.

Originally Posted by Starsman

They usually just return it as defective merch. All NCsoft loses is perhaps 1 to 50c from the disk and box printing.

Originally Posted by Tenzhi

Some people go a whole lifetime without developing any character at all.

Originally Posted by Megajoule

once again, sarcasm is too subtle for the internet.
guess I should have included some cane-shaking.

Originally Posted by Trassy

I'm 45 and I like dubstep

http://youtu.be/WgII2gDY-Rw

Originally Posted by Schismatrix

Actually that's not why people refer to you as a troll. More like the apparent lack of empathy and absence of civility. AKA acting like a jerk
Congratulations, you're officially a generic part of the internet, much like being a nitrogen atom in the atmosphere.

Originally Posted by Megajoule

I'm rather fond of whoever it was that described dubstep as "two fax machines ****ing."

Kids today and their music, muttergrumble.

Originally Posted by Arson_NA

1) Log off of forums.
2) Log into GW2.
3) ????
4) Arenanet profit.

Originally Posted by Biowraith

Honestly, I don't think there's enough of us for buying or not buying GW2 to send any message at all to NCSoft (especially given that only a fraction of us would have bought it before all this went down). That's not to say everyone should rush out and buy it, but refraining from doing so is more about personal feelings, principles, satisfaction, etc - NCSoft won't notice either way.

Originally Posted by Jack_NoMind

fwiw, take a look at JayboH's posting history for the past few days before replying to him.

Originally Posted by American_Knight

Bumping this thread to remind people there are still games to be played no matter who makes them. There are some toxic trheads out there from people wishing ill to certain companies and thus wishing more people will lose their jobs. I can't stand by and see these people do this to others with doing something.

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

I respectively disagree with his assertion that our closure would hurt NCSoft in either the short or long term. We are a very small segment of even the NA MMO gamer population. The vow to never buy another NCSoft title is hardly a monolithic stance among us. Most MMO gamers realize that MMOs close, although true not as many that have been around for as long as CoH. While our organized efforts have been well publicized by MMO news sites, the shear amount of daily news quickly scrolls us off the front page. Same is true with the majority of celebrity re-tweets and posts on their websites.

It's not like NCSoft is powering their games with the hearts of dead orphans. There isn't some big social concern that would rally non-players of our game to our cause and join an NCSoft boycott. And when Blade & Soul and WildStar finally comes to the US, several thousand gamers, most who wouldn't be interested in those games for one reason or other, vowing not to buy it won't even register. It's the inverse of the pirating argument where publishers believe that every pirated equals a lost sale. Vowing to never buy from someone when they don't have anything you wanted anyways isn't a threat. And not buying into a wildly popular new game from them such as GW3 impacts the revenue that game is generating insignificantly enough to not be noticed.

The problem is since we've lasted as long as we have, we believed that this game would be treated like Ultima Online or Everquest as one of the grand old, historically significant games that are limping along with a loyal player base. Yes we feel betrayed. Yes we are grieving at the loss of a world we routinely escape to but in the grand scheme of things we can barely make a ripple in the ocean of available revenue that all MMOs are fighting over. We can hope some benefactor will come forward and takeover from NCSoft and reconstitute at least part of the Paragon Studio team. But if you think our sudden closure or our vow to never spend money on another NCSoft game would actually harm them in someway, is wishful thinking at best, delusional at worst.

Originally Posted by Captain-Electric

So, why did you cherry pick that post in particular out of the thread? Why not one of the more recent posts, maybe my response to Winterminal? Would you rather have seen me stay in the frame of mind that produced this thread? Yeah? Nice try, but you've got to be quick if you want to catch me down on my luck.

Just a bit of advice, dude. Joining the ranks of Lulipop and Kitsune Knight is not exactly what you ought to be striving for right now.

The rest of us have our sights set just a bit higher.

Originally Posted by Feycat

I only watched the first 5 minutes or so (18 minutes?! I got too much ADD for that! LOL) but you didn't do anything that stood out really glaringly to me. I find my guardian the LEAST mobile of my critters. BUT, I would keep an eye on the following - when you drop to half health, if your mobs aren't almost dead, heal and swap to your tanking weapons (1H+shield/focus) so you stop taking mad damage for a while. It'll be slower to kill guys with your 1H, but if you've already whittled them down some with the greatsword it shouldn't be awful. And if you see someone winding up an attack, or they drop an area effect on you - yes, for god's sake, dodge :P If you don't like to double-tap (that's the ONLY way I dodge, but I use a Zfang gamepad) then use V. Re-bind it if V isn't convenient. But you are totally IMMUNE to damage for the couple seconds it takes you to roll. Why wouldn't you use it instead of slowly backing out of poison clouds and taking big windup hits? :P