Prof_Radburn

Originally Posted by Vyver

Second from the right


how in the world are her boobs staying up

Originally Posted by <span style="color: GoldenRod; font-weight: bold;">Abyssus</span>

I have to say, i've been really suprised at the tone of the forums ever since the news. Had no clue so many people were so unhappy with the game and the devs.

Originally Posted by Another_Fan

Going to other games. Really 8 years of undelivered promises is quite enough, this time around, I think I'll try finding devs who can walk the walk as well as talk the talk.

Originally Posted by Tylerst

Introduction video was released for TESO today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxJTsq2XeKY

Really liking the look of it so far, will have to see how it pans out in the coming months.

If saving CoH doesn't pan out, this seems like my next highest candidate.

Originally Posted by Starsman

Actually, due to a lot of costs associated with laying off those 80 people (by law they were all employed until 8 days ago so there was no savings PLUS severance pays) they saved nothing out of CoH's closure. They won’t see any "positive" impact from CoH's cancelation until next quarter and that assumes they paid off every closure expense they had to during the previous month. I think there still will be some severance packages being offered in this next quarter, for the few staff members that will remain until shutdown.

The closure of this game would have the opposite effect. They lost more money, not less. Should the game be operating normally and players spent money in subscriptions and points things would have been better for them. The release of the new Bio power set and the new super pack was definitively going to have a small burst in profits for the quarter too; instead they were running CoH for the quarter at zero profit and still paying the non-working employees.

I am sure they would have been at zero loss, or less than 100k in losses, should CoH not been killed. Given I think CoH was still (I think) bringing in about a million in profits per quarter, NCSoft would have seen no losses at all and instead seen some tiny profits.

Mind you, I am not saying CoH was the only thing taking them down to a negative. The launch of GW2 likely involved an insane marketing budget, but that’s something that would have happened regardless, and given the game’s main source of profit are sales it’s also something that cant be killed or even lowered without huge backlash in sales.


Given CoH was profitable, they won’t ever see a positive effect from dropping CoH, but they won’t be “over” the costs of closure until Q1 2013.
Another thing “worries*” me is that this quarter included the huge burst of profit from launching GW2. Sales of games ALWAYS drop after the first month, so those sales will not be as good for next quarter. What will keep things afloat then?

I may be wrong, some other stuff may bring them some money. A Christmas miracle may bump GW2 sales for the one quarter. Or perhaps they will entirely kill marketing budget for GW2 (that may be stupid since the game can only make money as long as it sells new copies.)

*To be honest, it does not worry me. They deserve all negative that comes to them.

Originally Posted by eviella

Those were both gettable; but you need to have been a paying customer for that long before freedom. They should have been gettable even after that, but something glitched for most people- not everybody- so even if you had the time they frequently didn't award. 7 year vet is fairly common for people who have been playing since the game started, and a few people have 8.

Llydia: Wow, that's an impressive list. Thanks for posting it, I've never seen it shown quite like that.

Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy

Are you sure about this!? Because I've literally combed through the options, looking for a way to get rid of it. This could be a case of "THB is wrong about something," hardly the first time. But I really don't think it's the case- I would love to be proven wrong though.