TimTheEnchanter

Blade & Soul?

True, but that's very umm... impersonal ban.

Splendid! Didn't have it in my demo but I added it and it worked. Thanks!

Oooh sweet! I would've loved to see that thing hovering over the Paragon City during a Rikti invasion event.

And hey, someone needs to post the demorecords of this.

I was gonna say...

*eyes light up*

Look at all those fun buttons that do fun stuff...

This is more the fault of corporate "in-breeding" than overall bigotry. Most get in the door because of family, friends, etc, resulting in everyone being like-minded. It's even worse in Hollywood. You should see some of the scripts that are actually being offered for sale, that have wording just as bad.

Heh, the only different between the sexual nature of males vs. females is... the females lie about it.

Gawd, even the Volus (Voli?) play the race card these days?

To be fair, I don't think the majority female populous helped much with that. Until Facebook, Farmville, and mobile gaming phones, playing video games was the quickest way for a guy to get himself on the "Do not date, EVER" list.

My La Fae Verte's appearance is like how I feel about cars. I always want a blue car because nobody else has one. And then I can spot it from a quarter mile away in even in a sporting arena parking lot. To find Verte... I just look for the abnormally bright green glow.

Dang, I never knew that. So... CoH was actually ahead of Facebook with automatically tagging people's names in images?

Yeah... I haven't been able to figure out how the rumor eventually spread (and stuck) that Stanley Woo ever served on the Tortanic, but yes, it's funny nevertheless.

A parody of a Bioware forums moderator who banned people for... pretty much everything.

Yeah I know.

I guess you're not well-versed in the lore of the Tortanic tragedy. Allow me to enlighten you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvMxyDlMJ58

U talkin' 'bout SWTOR in grorious NCsoft foruums? Ding Dong Bannu!!

Wow, there were accusations of astroturfing too? Sheesh.

I guess that $400mil-something budget doesn't help their forum feel any different from this one. 8)

That's a bit of an over-reaction...

I think that's the same reason a lot of the anti-NCsoft crowd have been rather annoyed. We definitely are in a very unusual situation here with this information blackout coming from all directions.

Some of it MAY be caused by the fact that NCsoft has accidentally found themselves in hot water before, over things they didn't see any reason to be an issue. So perhaps there's more paranoia there than we realize. It may even be paranoia over nothing, but they can't tell the difference.

That may be the difference between a company like NCsoft and Disney or BMW. I also won't pretend to understand the difference between how business is done in Korea and other examples. Maybe this lack of transparency is just standard 'business as usual' for them. If there's multiple companies who made a bid for it, then it could be akin to a silent auction where nobody gets to disclose what their bid was.

The top secret government thing just reminded me of a few things. Since we've been in the box of conspiracy theories: I was once a hardcore UFO fanatic. And the Roswell crash was always the holy grail. But as I poked around that more and more, I became convinced that the "alien craft" of myth was actually an early version of the Blackbird. Maybe it isn't, but that was the theory I came up with, long before I saw anyone else suggest it. But regardless, when it crashed, the first explanation the government decided to give to the people was that it was a flying saucer. BIG F'ING MISTAKE. One that they still haven't been able to brush off more than 50 years later.

Why are a lot of people still iffy about NCsoft's decision? If CoH was under-performing, why didn't they just say that? Follow up on PS's announcement and make an official statement (which should have been prepared before PS was even given the news). The company realignment to slowly pull out of the West isn't even needed to justify it. "The product isn't selling, so we're choosing to stop." That would have been a simple honest business answer. And people would've been angry, but it's a very simple explanation. Why not tell us that? Because they want to save face and not admit to the public that they had a failing product? If not that, then what? Either way, it hasn't worked out too well on the PR front. Like the Roswell incident, maybe sometimes the cover story is just as important, perhaps even more important, than what you're trying to cover up. NCsoft doesn't have a history of good communication with its customers.

That may very well be the reason there's no concrete evidence. I've even wondered if Fansy's funky way of saying a lot without actually telling us anything, is for the purposes of denying NCsoft's legal department an angle of attack. The more vague the information, the less likely they have a case.

HUGE pain to manually synching all the sounds to the video.

We may get that, or we may not. Brian is probably still NDA'd anyhow. We haven't heard any new grimy details one way or another yet from ANYBODY. Maybe after shutdown that will change. But if it does, unless it's posted on Youtube as Burnt suggested (highly unlikely. how often does anyone who is even a mild celebrity go out of their way to do that, just to prove it's they who is saying it?), nobody will believe it. Any other online venue he may post it on will be immediately dismissed as a troll account or a deliberate Titan smokescreen.