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NCsoft Brighton to Axe Dev Team

Aero_

By Aero_,
Posted on: 2008-09-10 13:53 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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And that's all I have to say about that!

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This is pretty dumb - what was wrong with one German mod, one French mod, one English mod?

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They are just stopping to support a game that they think is slowly dying.
And not only that, we are now getting charged for extra content too.

Sad.

 

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This is pretty dumb - what was wrong with one German mod, one French mod, one English mod?

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They are just stopping to support a game that they think is slowly dying.
And not only that, we are now getting charged for extra content too.

Sad.

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Well, they're not actually stopping the support - we've still got a French mod and an English one, like we've had since the start - but the German mod will now divide his or her time between CoH and GW.

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This is pretty dumb - what was wrong with one German mod, one French mod, one English mod?

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They are just stopping to support a game that they think is slowly dying.
And not only that, we are now getting charged for extra content too.

Sad.

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Well, they're not actually stopping the support - we've still got a French mod and an English one, like we've had since the start - but the German mod will now divide his or her time between CoH and GW.

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Well, the German support is as good as dead now.
As for the rest. We'll have to see what the future will bring.

 

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Guys,

Donkey, don't underestimate the power of the Amboss!

To be fair to the NCSOFT management - despite the mistakes I feel they made, both in their decisions and in communicating them - they have clearly said that CoH WILL go on as one of their major titles.

This seems to still hold true, since I haven't heard any news whatsoever that the additional DEVs in NorCal were let go again. So they are working away on the game and I am positive we will see good stuff coming out of this!

Coming back to my statement about mistakes in communication, I think it is not surprising that we as a community are/were worried, even frustrated.

Fact is that the names that I personally know as being responsible for CoH are Rockjaw (I know, only amongst other things - but you WERE at each of the meets. *g*), Kerensky, Aero, Palladium and GhostRaptor. Then 3 of these 5 were let go.
Meet-ups I had considered to be certain are suddenly not sure to happen anymore (OS) or haven't been mentioned at all (Memorabilia).

Until your post yesterday, GR, I was entirely unaware that there are that many people in the wings ready to continue the community support.
Of course I have met some of the other excellent community people (i.e. ze two crazi Germans *g*), but my understanding was that they were normally quite busy with supporting the other games.

I think that the management of the company was a tad short-sighted not to foresee this fallout if they remove (at least) three of the most well-known community people without a bit more information. A simple official press release would have done.

Again, I am not having a dig at you or any of the other community guys - I honestly believe that all of you gave us all you could - but there could have been more re-assurance from the powers-that-be!

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Is it cynical to fully expect a minor I13 announcement in the next week to try diverting our attention from the loss of EU staff?

If so: Is it more or less cynical to think that if there isn't one it's because a few EU players griping about losing good staff doesn't even register on the NC radar?

Maybe we should adopt US accents...

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Is it cynical to fully expect a minor I13 announcement in the next week to try diverting our attention from the loss of EU staff?

If so: Is it more or less cynical to think that if there isn't one it's because a few EU players griping about losing good staff doesn't even register on the NC radar?

Maybe we should adopt US accents...

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I could not say. It does strike me as being cynical to make the above suggestion and grind the same old 'why does daddy love america more' axe.

Or is that cynicism on my part on being cynical about cynicism?

 

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Is it cynical to fully expect a minor I13 announcement in the next week to try diverting our attention from the loss of EU staff?

If so: Is it more or less cynical to think that if there isn't one it's because a few EU players griping about losing good staff doesn't even register on the NC radar?

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So...whatever NCSoft do or don't do their either have an ulterior motive or don't care about us at all.

Victimhood FTW!