Nalrok_AthZim
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Indiegogo.
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Quote:No it wasn't.Originally Posted by Another_Fan
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Steel Canyon.
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Had the same problem. Was wondering if it was a sign of the end. Got me really worried.
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Quote:Not at all. I meant that there was reason to be suspicious of NCSoft.Originally Posted by Angry_Citizen
Right-o. I think it's easier to believe that Lord British is just ******* crazy.
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Quote:Then let me add that alongside his unpleasant demeanor, he did make some very bad decisions for the company. Garriott was let go in '08. From there, Lee made more poor decisions internally for NC West. TJ Kim stepped in shortly after. I hate to bring this to the table without proof, but there are things I'm afraid to mention on a forum owned by NC.Originally Posted by Brillig
Well, let's be fair. The man may have been a total jerk to work with, but that doesn't necessarily make his decisions bad. Steve Jobs was no savory rose garden either. NCSoft's financial results have, in general, been very good.
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I'd like to add some small information here: The bad decisions did not begin with TJ Kim. They were omnipresent under Jae Ho Lee. I witnessed how it was to work with the man first hand. It was not pretty. In fact, it was awful. He had no respect for his Western coworkers and made no effort to conceal it.
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Quote:I have insider information on that, and all I'll say is there was reason to be suspicious.Originally Posted by Angry_Citizen
Auto Assault wasn't profitable, and whether they forged that crazy mf'ers letter of resignation remains unproven. He won a civil judgment, remember, not a criminal judgment. Civil judgments only require a preponderance of evidence, not evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
It's Massively's job to cover real news. If a 6 year old child sends them an email with crayon-drawn concept art and asks them to cover a "video game" he's making and self-publishing, they're not going to report on that because he's not reliable. If Cletus McTinfoilhat sends a letter to the New York Times that the US President is a reptilian alien, they are not going to give him front page coverage because he is not reliable.
They have to have standards. It would reflect badly on their publication.
NCSoft has also demonstrated that they are unreliable and therefore should be below Massively's standards to cover. They'll shut down a well-regarded milestone of a MMO that's still profitable for no good reason and tell customers of 8 years to kiss off. They'll forge a resignation letter while someone is not even on the planet. They shut down MMOs so often it's become a running gag.
That kind of activity should not be supported or endorsed by any fans of MMOs, Massively staff included. I don't want NCSoft's games to be covered any more than I want "Cheap Meds from China" email scams to be taking out full page ads in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Massively.com: Until NCSoft changes their ways I will not knowingly be giving you any traffic while you continue to give positive coverage to Guild Wars 2, Blade and Soul, Wildstar Online or any other NCSoft game. It reflects badly on your publication and on your standards and I will be urging others to similarly avoid you and other sites that also endorse NCSoft's actions.
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Now is not the time for defeat.
Now is the time for action and rage.
Rage.
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Quote:CO is a Steam game.Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer
One concern about the idea of Valve buying CoH: I know Valve has a good reputation, but do they have any experience running MMO's?
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Quote:August 18, 2006- Vince joins City of Heroes his junior year of High School.Originally Posted by Peregrine_Falcon
You do realize that a person born 9 years after that movie was in the theater would - today - not only be old enough to have played City of Heroes since launch, they'd also be old enough to drink and have done a tour in the military or gotten a bachelor's degree.
Yeah... I'm feeling old now too.
August 31, 2012- Vince, now with a Bachelor's degree, wife, two dogs, a condo, two cars, a job with the premiere technological company in the US, and four years of job experience, tears up as he reads about the sudden cancellation of his game.
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Quote:I'm not being a dick about anything. If I was I wouldn't have used words like 'please' or 'take care.' I'd have said something like "This has been posted before, way to use forum search" or something much more scathing. Chill out, man.Originally Posted by Peregrine_Falcon
I did search the forum and I did not find a thread about this. Not saying it's not there, just saying that I did search and didn't find it.
Anyway, thanks for being a dick about it.
By the way:
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This is the third thread about this, and it's just that: a rumor. Please check the forum first.
EDIT: Also what the hell, who decided to write that? It's not even an article on what might happen, it's just a big post asking for speculation. This is not news, my friend. That's a blogger looking for hits. Please take care to read carefully next time. -
The utterly terrifying screams in Dark Astoria.
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Staring at Grandville Tower, plotting a revenge scheme that will blacken the sun on my first character (and first 50) Nalrok Ath'Zim. As the clock draws to the final moments, I'll launch forward into the sky and meet Recluse head-on.
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Getting my refund. Had a one year subscription, a birthday gift from my wife since she "knew I'd use it for a long time."
Seeing the Paragon Studios staff go their separate ways.
Having a limited time to demolish the mobs of DA on my TW/WP Brute.
Never again being able to argue the power of Dark Armor to anyone who denounces it.
Letting go of a game that shaped the past 6 years of my life by seeing me through high school, a bad relationship, college, a great relationship, marriage, four crappy jobs and two good ones. No more coming home after a bad day and letting off steam by pounding Council to paste.
The loss of my stress relief still has me panicked. -
lol as if NCSoft could afford something like that
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Quote:Nice post history.Originally Posted by PPCGunner
Looks like I did blow his mind, and more than a few of the bits and pieces leaked out.
Einstein, heres a little something for you. They own these boards. They have all the tools to do whatever they want with them and the right to do whatever they want with them. If they wanted to astroturf they could just take inactive accounts and use them or create accounts with whatever post count they want them to have.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Corporations don't take much if at all to set up
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Quote:Same way he is right now? I don't know.Originally Posted by Brillig
It was both. Also, you should stop quoting me. How is poor Captain Electric going to ignore me if you keep quoting me?
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Quote:That's neither ironic or a faux pas.Originally Posted by Brillig
Ironic. I expected you to mean what you were saying, which was an obvious faux pas on my part, given your history.
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Quote:Or maybe he knows just one person and only knows that they, and only they, haven't sent the stuff.Originally Posted by Brillig
If you're able to say, authoritatively, who has and has not sent in a mask and cape, then you have access to personal information that you shouldn't.
That's so blindingly obvious you should be able to see it through the ignore box.
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Quote:Nope. Just a bunch of pissants who just have to get that last word in.Originally Posted by Scythus
Did I... did I log into the WoW boards by accident?