NCSoft setting up at San Diego Comic-Con, but...
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Posted on: 2009-06-24 11:51 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Good news for me 
Interesting about the competition though...
Wish I could go this year, but no free trip to San Diego for me this year ;-/
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We'll definitely be there.
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Despite no announcements on the boards
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Coming soon! We want to have all the info for you before we made the announcement, but it should definitely be some fun stuff.
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Despite no announcements on the boards, this page confirms NCSoft will be exhibiting at San Diego Comicon next month.
"Well, of course they are, why wouldn't they be?" you may be asking.
That's a legitimate question, but if you take a look at this page, two names that seem to be missing are Atari, and Cryptic, which is just odd, unless they exhibit under some other name and I don't know it.
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If Cryptic is set on releasing CO at the start of September, then I'm not surprised that they'd skip Comic-Con. They're getting into crunch time, and it'd be better to have everyone at the studio working away than have guys take at least a week off to get things planned, set up, actually run at the Con, and then back home. Paragon Studios isn't under the same sort of pressure that Cryptic is right now, having a large expansion and a free update to worry about as opposed to launching a brand new game.
That said, I'm now looking forward to what goodies we'll get leaked to us via folks visiting the Paragon Studios exhibit during the event. 
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Despite no announcements on the boards, this page confirms NCSoft will be exhibiting at San Diego Comicon next month.
"Well, of course they are, why wouldn't they be?" you may be asking.
That's a legitimate question, but if you take a look at this page, two names that seem to be missing are Atari, and Cryptic, which is just odd, unless they exhibit under some other name and I don't know it.
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If Cryptic is set on releasing CO at the start of September, then I'm not surprised that they'd skip Comic-Con. They're getting into crunch time, and it'd be better to have everyone at the studio working away than have guys take at least a week off to get things planned, set up, actually run at the Con, and then back home. Paragon Studios isn't under the same sort of pressure that Cryptic is right now, having a large expansion and a free update to worry about as opposed to launching a brand new game.
That said, I'm now looking forward to what goodies we'll get leaked to us via folks visiting the Paragon Studios exhibit during the event.
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This pretty much. Also keep in mind Cryptic/CO might end up being there, as I heard some of them stated they regretted not really being in force at E3.
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Despite no announcements on the boards, this page confirms NCSoft will be exhibiting at San Diego Comicon next month.
"Well, of course they are, why wouldn't they be?" you may be asking.
That's a legitimate question, but if you take a look at this page, two names that seem to be missing are Atari, and Cryptic, which is just odd, unless they exhibit under some other name and I don't know it.
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If Cryptic is set on releasing CO at the start of September, then I'm not surprised that they'd skip Comic-Con. They're getting into crunch time, and it'd be better to have everyone at the studio working away than have guys take at least a week off to get things planned, set up, actually run at the Con, and then back home. Paragon Studios isn't under the same sort of pressure that Cryptic is right now, having a large expansion and a free update to worry about as opposed to launching a brand new game.
That said, I'm now looking forward to what goodies we'll get leaked to us via folks visiting the Paragon Studios exhibit during the event.
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This pretty much. Also keep in mind Cryptic/CO might end up being there, as I heard some of them stated they regretted not really being in force at E3.
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OK, so you're saying they might not be there, but on the other hand they might? lol
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Maybe not in an official booth, but in some sort of capacity. Seems plausible,
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Despite no announcements on the boards, this page confirms NCSoft will be exhibiting at San Diego Comicon next month.
"Well, of course they are, why wouldn't they be?" you may be asking.
That's a legitimate question, but if you take a look at this page, two names that seem to be missing are Atari, and Cryptic, which is just odd, unless they exhibit under some other name and I don't know it.
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If Cryptic is set on releasing CO at the start of September, then I'm not surprised that they'd skip Comic-Con. They're getting into crunch time, and it'd be better to have everyone at the studio working away than have guys take at least a week off to get things planned, set up, actually run at the Con, and then back home. Paragon Studios isn't under the same sort of pressure that Cryptic is right now, having a large expansion and a free update to worry about as opposed to launching a brand new game.
That said, I'm now looking forward to what goodies we'll get leaked to us via folks visiting the Paragon Studios exhibit during the event.
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This pretty much. Also keep in mind Cryptic/CO might end up being there, as I heard some of them stated they regretted not really being in force at E3.
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If they didn't have booth space already bought and paid for last year, they won't be at SDCC this year. And even with all the space in the main exhibit hall at the San Diego Convention Center, SDCC is getting more and more pressed for space. There has been discussion about SDCC moving up to Anaheim to take advantage of the space in the Anaheim Convention Center (this possibility is one of the driving forces behind the proposal to expand the San Diego Convention Center -- losing SDCC alone would put a significant dent in the city's tourist income). While I don't know how things were handled each time SDCC contracted for more of the exhibit hall (I used to be part of the con staff), for each of the years that I was involved, there was a [u]waiting list[u] for booth space, so even if Cryptic had been waiting with cash in hand to buy booth space last year, there might not have been any available -- it would take having current exhibitors decide not to come back for space to open up for anyone that wasn't already an exhibitor.
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I'll be at Comic-Con this year. And I'd be super excited if it was moved up to Anaheim since it's so much closer! Glad to see COH'll be there!
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Anaheim can't handle the sdcc. That's part of why it's still here in sunny MY CITY San Diego.
I'm sooo looking forward to whatever partying and fun stuff that Paragon/NC will have at the con. I couldn't care less about the other guys not being there, but it is true: if they haven't already gotten a booth paid for (and in progress for shipping NOW) they *will not* be there.
They might have a room show or something, but they won't be on the floor unless they've already got their booth well underway.
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I'll be going to the Comic Con this year for the first time, and can't wait to see what they have in store.
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Um.
not to be an [censored] but yanno... Cryptic has been runnin around Europe advertising CO... Its like they dont prioritise anything happening in the US.
No I AM NOT dissin them. But, wasnt Roper off in EU when Comic Con happened? Or something like that???
I am 98% sure I read that somewhere...
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No I AM NOT dissin them. But, wasnt Roper off in EU when Comic Con happened? Or something like that???
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You mean last year? Comic Con 2009 is next month.
As for moving the convention, I think their best, and maybe only, option would be to move it to Vegas. I don't see how they could expand the SD convention center any further, unless they went up.
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No I AM NOT dissin them. But, wasnt Roper off in EU when Comic Con happened? Or something like that???
I am 98% sure I read that somewhere...
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You mean last year? Comic Con 2009 is next month.
As for moving the convention, I think their best, and maybe only, option would be to move it to Vegas. I don't see how they could expand the SD convention center any further, unless they went up.
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No the one that just passed. I meant E3. (Sorry I have comic con on the mind)
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As for moving the convention, I think their best, and maybe only, option would be to move it to Vegas. I don't see how they could expand the SD convention center any further, unless they went up.
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http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2...re-space-and-p/
You can get an idea of the expansion.
I am not going to con this year, but as I live down the street I will attend any CoX parties etc. like they had last year if possible.
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Atari pulled out of E3 at the last minute as well witch is even bigger in the gaming world.
This is also a big surprise not from CO standpoint but with the new Ghostbusters game just released. They spent a bunch of money with that game and marketing. The funny thing is the reason they gave for backing out of E3 was they wanted to focus on there marketing.
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Despite no announcements on the boards, this page confirms NCSoft will be exhibiting at San Diego Comicon next month.
"Well, of course they are, why wouldn't they be?" you may be asking.
That's a legitimate question, but if you take a look at this page, two names that seem to be missing are Atari, and Cryptic, which is just odd, unless they exhibit under some other name and I don't know it.
(Sometimes, I wish there could be a Dev thumbs up button for quality posts, because you pretty much nailed it.) -- Ghost Falcon