NCsoft Brighton more trouble?

Stasisesque · 02-12-2009 09:18 PM

...South Korea had a very average Olympic year last year. They often get around 30 medals total.

North Korea have never been any good.

Also, the hell are you talking about Khorak? Were you watching a different Olympics to me, North and South Korea were seperate entries last year.

Charnell · 02-12-2009 09:24 PM

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Oh I don't. It's a well known fact that the subscriber numbers aren't stellar (even stateside) and that no server goes in to max capacity, not even Freedom.

From what you're spewing forth someone'd think that the PvP changes and the way they were handled were as bad as the ED/GDN situation.

News flash: Not even close.

Even if there's a significant subscriber drop I'd put a lot more money on it being because of a lack of any serious content in I13 than the PvP overhaul. But hey, y'know, that's just my brain using common sense.

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Admittedly it may well be a trivial number. But did you see the 50+ page long threads on US forum where every single post was ppl stating how many accounts they were cancelling?

Extremus · 02-12-2009 09:30 PM

See it sounds like a lot when you say it like that, but what percentage of the playerbase post on/use the forums?

Mr ? · 02-12-2009 09:46 PM

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*sigh*

GR - good luck to you. You were/are a fantastic community co-ordinator, you certainly filled B's, Kerensky's, Rockjaw's etc. etc. shoes and then some. Speaking for myself (and anyone who wants to agree with me), us EU lot have been extremely lucky to have some of the best community support/co-ordinators/GMs etc.

I'm going to keep my fingers crossed indefinitely, and hope to god you're not on a temporary work visa.

To be honest, depending on what happens to us EU folk, I may take this as my cue to move to <another MMO> for good. Not out of spite, or fear of change, but to preserve memories.

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Nothing has made me stop and think more than the quote above.
It takes a hell of a game to stop me playing my cube games (still not got a Wii). All of the Zeldas, Metroid prime 1+2, plus loads of games I bought with the intention of playing and finishing, ALL left untouched because of this game.

Personally I hope it does not mean the worst for our accounts and characters. But yes, I wholeheartedly agree preserve the good memories and discard the bad ones.

Thank you Stasis.

New Dawn · 02-12-2009 10:29 PM

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Thanks for the well wishes, everyone.

My position is 'potentially redundant' within the Brighton office, and at the current time I intend to accept voluntary redundancy. I'm not interested in living in the US.

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In the long run Australia is a better proposition. Will you be thinking of heading back?

He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.

CactusBrawler · 02-12-2009 10:35 PM

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Thanks for the well wishes, everyone.

My position is 'potentially redundant' within the Brighton office, and at the current time I intend to accept voluntary redundancy. I'm not interested in living in the US.

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In the long run Australia is a better proposition. Will you be thinking of heading back?

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Don't they have spiders the size of sheep there?

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Aurealis · 02-12-2009 10:49 PM

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Thanks for the well wishes, everyone.

My position is 'potentially redundant' within the Brighton office, and at the current time I intend to accept voluntary redundancy. I'm not interested in living in the US.

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In the long run Australia is a better proposition. Will you be thinking of heading back?

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Don't they have spiders the size of sheep there?

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That made me lol for some reason. Think it's just the thought of that actually being true. I'd not go within 1000 miles if it was.

The above is only my opinion, please don't hate me for it

SG: Suicidal Maniacs @Aurealis
GhostRaptor: Server populations have been trending upwards since Issue 13 release. There are no current plans for any server mergers and we're looking forward to Issue 14 and the rest of the year.

Gemfire_EU · 02-12-2009 10:59 PM

i am sorry to hear about your job GR, it is hard at anytime, but if you do not want to go to the US, can you put my name in your place. I hope you do well in whatever you do!

As for everything else, we ultimatly have no idea what they intend to do with the euro servers or even the people that play here. Cost cutting is happening all over the world so we had to expect something along the lines of this. We all know many people that have left the game. But on the positive side I have made plenty of new freinds

Vox_Doom · 02-12-2009 11:00 PM

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Thanks for the well wishes, everyone.

My position is 'potentially redundant' within the Brighton office, and at the current time I intend to accept voluntary redundancy. I'm not interested in living in the US.

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In the long run Australia is a better proposition. Will you be thinking of heading back?

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Don't they have spiders the size of sheep there?

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That made me lol for some reason. Think it's just the thought of that actually being true. I'd not go within 1000 miles if it was.

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Australia has spiders so big that they have health bars.

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Aurealis · 02-12-2009 11:03 PM

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Thanks for the well wishes, everyone.

My position is 'potentially redundant' within the Brighton office, and at the current time I intend to accept voluntary redundancy. I'm not interested in living in the US.

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In the long run Australia is a better proposition. Will you be thinking of heading back?

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Don't they have spiders the size of sheep there?

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That made me lol for some reason. Think it's just the thought of that actually being true. I'd not go within 1000 miles if it was.

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Australia has spiders so big that they have health bars.

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Ew! just EW! please don't do that again :< I'd have a freak out if I ever saw one of them in my flat. I'd never go back in here again.

The above is only my opinion, please don't hate me for it

SG: Suicidal Maniacs @Aurealis
GhostRaptor: Server populations have been trending upwards since Issue 13 release. There are no current plans for any server mergers and we're looking forward to Issue 14 and the rest of the year.

New Dawn · 02-12-2009 11:11 PM

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Thanks for the well wishes, everyone.

My position is 'potentially redundant' within the Brighton office, and at the current time I intend to accept voluntary redundancy. I'm not interested in living in the US.

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In the long run Australia is a better proposition. Will you be thinking of heading back?

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Don't they have spiders the size of sheep there?

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That made me lol for some reason. Think it's just the thought of that actually being true. I'd not go within 1000 miles if it was.

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Australia has spiders so big that they have health bars.

See?

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Ew! just EW! please don't do that again :< I'd have a freak out if I ever saw one of them in my flat. I'd never go back in here again.

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I just pick them up, carry them to the back door and let them out in the garden.

He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.

Lucius_EU · 02-12-2009 11:18 PM

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I cannot see England winning anything, ever, sadly.

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Very true. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on the other hand...

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I'll have you know that the northern Irish stuffed the English a couple of years back... they even errected a monument for the occasion!

Judgement_Dave · 02-12-2009 11:18 PM

Never quite understood how they manage to have spiders the size of sheep and yet they still manage to hide under the dunny seat. And they still manage to bite people...

If my loo seat was raised 3 feet and appeared to be suspiciously wooly in an arachnid-kinda-way I'd find some way to hold it in...

BTW - the dunny is the outside toilet. I remember Mike Harding talking about trips to Australia and stating he'd been bitten by one of these spiders. In the morning, at hospital, he looked under the sheets at the damage wrought an dasked the nurse 'could you take away the pain but leave the swelling?'...

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Scarlet Shocker · 02-12-2009 11:24 PM

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Ummmmm that's factually incorrect. The Great Britain team had arguably it's best Olympics ever and that is a team made up of the entire UK.

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Hence the example that even Korea managed a united Olympics team. Thanks for the condescension, but I suggest you keep it to use when....y'know, you're right.

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I am right, and you're very welcome

pats Khorak on the head

Now run along like a good boy

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khorak_EU · 02-12-2009 11:35 PM

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Also, the hell are you talking about Khorak? Were you watching a different Olympics to me, North and South Korea were seperate entries last year.

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Meh, they marched together at least, I was mainly referencing the colossal pettiness of it, North and South Korea are constantly on a knife edge of total war in which Seoul will be immediately levelled by tens of thousands of artillery pieces that have been pointed at it for decades, and yet they march together and have been actually trying to have a single team, and the reason they don't have a single team has nothing to do with the megatons of high explosive ordnance. North Korea was even offered two matches of the 2002 World Cup by the specific request of South Korea. These guys are trying, when they really shouldn't bother.

The UK by comparison to that, really is just a joke to behold.

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HardRider · 02-12-2009 11:37 PM

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Thanks for the well wishes, everyone.

My position is 'potentially redundant' within the Brighton office, and at the current time I intend to accept voluntary redundancy. I'm not interested in living in the US.

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In the long run Australia is a better proposition. Will you be thinking of heading back?

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Don't they have spiders the size of sheep there?

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That made me lol for some reason. Think it's just the thought of that actually being true. I'd not go within 1000 miles if it was.

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Australia has spiders so big that they have health bars.

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lmao thts awesome

Mothers_Love · 02-12-2009 11:41 PM

Gawd, Its not the spiders you've got to worry about in Oz... Its the mice!.

Lord_Spawnus · 02-12-2009 11:50 PM

Lets hope they decide whats going on soon, till then i'm not gonna worry.

khorak_EU · 02-12-2009 11:52 PM

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Oh shut up you idiot, you failed entirely to grasp the point being made and even enforced my reasoning that a united UK team would, and does, perform better.

Next time I'll write a lengthy treatise in crayon with a legal advisor, to make sure it's airtight enough to absolutely guarantee some tool like you can't ignore the entire subtext and explicit meaning in order to make some meaningless nitpick constructed entirely for some masturbatory smug satisfaction.

Chairman of the Charity of Pain; accepting donations of blood and guts.

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Golden Girl · 02-12-2009 11:55 PM

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Gawd, Its not the spiders you've got to worry about in Oz... Its the mice!.

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Aww, that's very snuggable

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Mothers_Love · 02-12-2009 11:57 PM

Yeah thats how they draw you closer then *Snicktt* - yellow rodent choppers sunk into your face.

Golden Girl · 02-13-2009 12:01 AM

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Yeah thats how they draw you closer then *Snicktt* - yellow rodent choppers sunk into your face.

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I would snuggle it with care

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Mothers_Love · 02-13-2009 12:01 AM

Massively.com article:
How NCsoft should have done their layoffs

...and Its very interesting source article: NCWest: Stage 1 complete; Farewell, European MMO Industry!

Aurealis · 02-13-2009 12:12 AM

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I am right, and you're very welcome

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Oh shut up you idiot, you failed entirely to grasp the point being made and even enforced my reasoning that a united UK team would, and does, perform better.

Next time I'll write a lengthy treatise in crayon with a legal advisor, to make sure it's airtight enough to absolutely guarantee some tool like you can't ignore the entire subtext and explicit meaning in order to make some meaningless nitpick constructed entirely for some masturbatory smug satisfaction.

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Over-reaction much?

The above is only my opinion, please don't hate me for it

SG: Suicidal Maniacs @Aurealis
GhostRaptor: Server populations have been trending upwards since Issue 13 release. There are no current plans for any server mergers and we're looking forward to Issue 14 and the rest of the year.

deathkitten_EU · 02-13-2009 03:33 AM

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GhostRaptor:
Thanks for the well wishes, everyone.

My position is 'potentially redundant' within the Brighton office, and at the current time I intend to accept voluntary redundancy. I'm not interested in living in the US.

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*hugs*

I don't see why they couldn't just let you telework, it is an internet game after all... It just seems lazy of them in these days of cheap international phone calls and money transfers...

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Charnel:
Unfortunately on the evidence of the NC overlords current actions I can only assume the worst. The easiest and cheapest option would most probably be to simply shut the eu servers and offer refunds or time on the us servers. In the wake of such sweeping cuts and potential job losses I cant see the huge amount of work being supported in server moves or merges.

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Mothers_Love:
If the US.account transfer offers are poor...Hope to see all your characters I love replicated in Millenium City or Metropolis/Gotham.

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Yeah if they take the easy way out and do the same kind of insult as they did to the people that bought Tabula Rasa I'm off to Gotham probly!

assuming it's not as much of a disappointment as Hellgate London was... please no cartoony stuff - do it the kind of style in Batman Returns/Dark Knight films and it will be awesomes..

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Mothers_Love:
Massively.com article:...and Its very interesting source article: NCWest: Stage 1 complete; Farewell, European MMO Industry!

[/ QUOTE ]That site is really interesting, thanks!! found some interesting other stuff there too:

http://t-machine.org/index.php/2009/01/1...ut-tabula-rasa/

ttp://hellforge.gameriot.com/blogs/C...-Crash-of-2008