Kitsune Knight

It might. Valve could integrate AE with the Steam Workshop, replace the Paragon Market with their microtransaction system, add lots of hats, and various other things.

Of course, the idea of NCSoft (or anyone, really) buying Valve makes me want to drink. Fortunately, I already am

With each post of yours I read... the voice in my head is ever so slowly turning into Gir's.

I don't think he intended that list to be the definite list or anything... especially since he forgot to mention talking the investors into forking over large amounts of unmarked bills

As for the publisher thing... If New-Paragon goes totally on their own, that means in addition to the people they had before, they'd also need to hire GMs, a regular support staff, as well as all the server people. Having a publisher that already has those groups would drastically cut down on costs (since the teams could be shared between games). There will certainly be pros and cons to both sides... and if they want things in stores (the kind you walk to, not type to!), having a publisher is probably still pretty much completely required.

You presume that the people at Paragon would be willing to do that. Not everyone is willing to move (half way) cross country. It would certainly be a good move financially (hell, anyone else in the US would be), but there are always other considerations.

Or maybe it's that each grammar/spelling mistake someone makes has a relatively small chance to elicit a correction... and since you don't care about making spelling/grammar mistakes, you end up making many, many more, which results in you being corrected more than other people (even though everyone is corrected at the same rate based on their errors).

I'd say put more effort into your grammar & spelling. It really isn't hard at all (get a web browser with spellcheck! It's not fool proof, but it certainly does help). It makes your posts far more readable and more persuasive. I'm not one that corrects people at all often (except as a joke, and even that's rare), but if I see a post with muddled grammar and confusing spelling, I'll end up skimming it... and if it's bad enough, I'll simply not read it. If the author doesn't think their words are worth the effort, why should I?

How about someone from Paragon?

Admittedly it's not a suspicious I take too seriously.

From the sound of it, Transgaming doesn't do a particularly large amount of 'support', they seem better suited to games where development is already completely done, so they just need to get it to work once and it's done forever. Transgaming also isn't the only game in town, CodeWeaver's also does porting (and they're not hated with a burning passion). Transgaming a while ago abandoned all their Cedega customers, while CodeWeavers continues supporting CrossOver, in addition to continuing to offer their porting services.

Freem Fifteen. Long as there's at least a few of them that are still around, I'm sure they could reform Paragon. It won't be exactly the same, it of course could never be again after the announcement... but it should be able to be somewhat similar.

If the worst trouble you have to deal with is someone pointing out 'per say' is written 'per se', then you probably should consider yourself lucky


And it's spelled 'argument' Also

Which means it being in a PDF is even more unnecessary. PDFs are absolute security nightmares (just ask Google )... even if the contents appear totally benign.

Yes, at some point. We're not to that point, though. The most obvious sign that we're not there yet is that there are negotiations going on (i.e. what this thread is about). As long as those are ongoing, we have a realistic chance for success. Still slim, but certainly non-zero.

Even if those fall through, that won't be the final nail in the coffin.

Assuming you have no familiarity with the Mayan 2012 thing...

The world was previously destroyed 3 times at the beginning of the 14th b'ak'tun. December 21st, 2012 will be the beginning of the 14th b'ak'tun for this world, so people have used that to assume the Mayans predicted our world would end there as well... although we've not actually discovered any evidence of that. In none of the stuff we've found, has there been any reference to this world meeting the same fate as the prior ones... we've actually found multiple things referring to dates past December 21st... by several thousand years.

But, is it starting crap? Some are clearly intended to elicit a response, but others aren't necessarily. What was Ironblade's intention? Was it "haha ur dumb!"? Was it to correct something that's 'misspelled' (does using the wrong word(s) really qualify as misspelling?) nearly as often as it's spelled correctly?

It takes two to tango.

My point is, if you didn't want it to derail your point, then don't respond to it. It might be tempting to respond, to defend your honor or whatever the hell reasoning we tell ourselves, but it's simply counter productive. Consider it as a variant of the Streisand Effect.