Help me tell Game Informer to knock it off!

Echoing this.

NCSoft gets a lot more hate than Cryptic - Cryptic is, at worst, a team that releases earlier than they probably should, from the boards I frequent.

I keep a few old magazines laying around just for emergencies when I run out of toliet paper.

In 13 years, NCSoft has shut down a grand total of 4 boxed games (not sure about their webgame stats): Auto Assault in 2007, Tabula Rasa in 2009, Dungeon Runners in January, and Exteel (which isn't even an MMO) just a few weeks ago.

And honestly, if you had followed the development cycle and launch of Tabula Rasa, you shouldn't be surprised in the least. Lineage, now 12 years old, is still running.

That doesn't matter. For players who feel slighted that NCsoft shut down their game (or that SOE introduced the NGE to SWG, or that Paragon Studios nerfed MA, or that Cryptic didn't make STO Star Trek-ky enough, or that Turbine sent LOTRO F2P), then that company is the Worst Company Ever.

When FFXIV launches, expect Square Enix to become the new Worst Company Ever for a while.

They seem to be that with every new FF title these days.

having played their previous mmo, i have held this view for a while.

you know, got my GI ish today, and while they really should have been more careful with their wording, they do credit ncsoft with working to improve the title in the last paragraph, and more importantly they are very positive about the game, i mean guys, yeah attributions matter,but this was a very good bit of marketing here.

How I feel about it. I usually flip thru it since it's free with my edge card. You get what you pay for. They tend to periodically make completely unfounded comments that absolutely false that will get cited on the internet as fact later. Or just really biased and foolish comments about certain things.

Such as they claimed in their retrospect review of Megaman X 6 it was retconned out of the series by inafune which is bunk. Inafune was initially mad at release because it forced him to tweak his story for the zero series a bit to allow for Zero's continued presence in the X games but it all worked out. He got over it. Nothing I've ever read any where as a megaman fan ever cited their statement as fact. Not the fan sites, not the canon of the games nada.

I'm guessing it was more of a hyperbole of how bad they felt the game was rather than stating a fact but they needed bring that across better if that were the case for those who don't know better. Somehow I doubt GI is going to correct it though either way.