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those are both from the foxbat line though, right. One thing I have noticed is that when foxbat is the central theme (and I dont recall him showing up in the later game) The stuff is more over the top and silly, from all angles. I'd say some of the later stuff shows a competent handling of comic tropes that suggests an affection for the genre. Its like how on kotaku everyone rags on gamer nerds, a little schadenfreude and a litle hope that you are a higher calibur of fan than the embarrassing ones.

we have fifth column/council antagonizing a game developer using complaints that are exaggerations of complaints here, but i dont think paragon or cryptic hate online video gamers.

doubly disqualifying him from being a cheetah

well bill, I have good news on that front. http://hellgate.t3fun.com/Home/Home.aspx

the problem is that games like hellgate, apb, and apparently now rf online is that their publishers just shut them down, ncsoft seems to actively bury their dead games, otherwise i'd expect tabula rasa or exsteel to have been resurrected by nexon or pwi. ncsoft seems to want to make sure their former i.p. s dont become competitors in the future.

ok, i misread that, my bad. i still think your post and overall attitude here is more harmful than helpful. If you actually have the professional background to tell us that the efofrt will not work, please share your credentials so we can all be enlightened, otherwise you are simply taking advantage of the situation to be as disruptive as you seem to find amusing. As for now I will assume that Brian Clayton (gg can spell check this please and make a dismissive remark if i made any errors) may know a bit more about the business than you do.

it is factually incorrect that Co was doing better financially because co was picked up by pwi . CO got lucky, coh has not..yet. if you ever actually played or read the forums, you know how outright dismal the mood has been for a very long time And how dead the live server is. be somewhat rational. hoensty, I question how big a bump you think this is going to generate for cryptic, and if you think it is realistic that cryptic would start paying attention to CO. We lost tumerboy, we have lost producers left and right, even stormshade was tasked with covering all the forums as a community lead, we weren't even judged as important enough for our own until we finally got trailturtle after several months. Have you seen ANY investment or attention on the part of pwi Outside of region banning a bunch of players? it may be moving from one sinking ship to a slightly slower sinking one.

reign in yourself there cowboy, you know very well that CO was in a very similar situation when atari got rid of them last year. It is not about who is doing better, it is about who has a publisher that is willing to accept a game's performance. You know very well that had pwi not stepped in, co would be just as dead months ago.

who did I get wrong? I used paragonwiki for the names.

He has mentioned that he has a learning disability. he has previously quit the forums over people yelling at him about this, and you know what, at least he is trying. It is not that hard to tell, and most people have the basic human decency to not act like an *** to him over it.

its true, there ar other definitions of hacking. in fact, going by the definition provided by a song in fallout 3, his plan is to sleep with ncsoft...clever boy!

in reality nothing. i wont buy any more of their games, but that's pretty much it. life is too short to be going around worrying about getting revenge. If a grocery store ticked me off, I dont shop there, and if i can, i convince my friends not to, thats pretty much it. I will try to follow the devs info feeds to see where they land and try their games, rewarding is more important than revenge, and they deserve rewards. and i will play my gigantic pile of shame that encompasses at leas 4 consoles, pc games, and handheld games, most of which are long rpgs. that should hold me for about 2 lifespans of a human being. so yeah, no more money to ncsoft, but beyond that, i move on and live my life.

As i said in another thread, this. love martial arts, like tae-kim's art, but the situation is bad, same with gw2. great game, bad situation.

actually, i'd say we are trying

oh, and was going to contribute after work..ill be in next time.

When the financial dealings of multimillion dollar softwre corporations are as easy to spot as the defining characteristics of a duck, that would be relevant. And I'd wonder how many zoologists would be impressed with the average person's capacity to determine duck-like behavior.

was that shared here? I'd hope we realize we are all working towards the same goal here and we should spread the information on the major avenues, like the official forum. that is two days old and I'd like to have heard that myself.

Actually I had assumed that they realigned the monetary resources they had tied up in coh, which net them a modest but fairly flat profit in heavier marketing and other technical resources for guild wars 2, which has the potential to net them a higher reward given the massive hype for the game(mostly deserved, it is good) or, more likely, the reorganization refers to a host of business decisions, including both gw2, trying to promote aion more effectively, and promoting blade and soul, as well as other things we wont know about for some time, or internal things dealing with recent acquisitions that will only be understood by, and wont bore into a coma, people directly in the finance field. correlation is nice an all, but I dont think anyone needs to remind you of its relation to actual causation.

If anything, I'd expect that of the recent news we have heard from ncsoft, blade and soul is the least of the reasons anything happened, I doubt anyone in ncsoft expects america to get a sizable population for a eastern themed martial arts game with art designs by a guy who did some niche rpgs. outside of myself and a small number of other American anime/kung-fu nerds i expect even the most optimistic plans set it at niche in the west.