Letters to the CEO of NCSoft (post yours)

Dear NCSoft and Mr. Taek Jin Kim,

This has been the best MMO I've ever played. None other even comes close. I've been a continuous subscriber since 2004 for four accounts for my family.

Your treatment of the staff of Paragon Studios was inexcusable and unforgivable. Your ignorance of how players would react to that is unfathomable. You obviously know nothing about us or our culture.

The decision to cancel this profitable game while sparing unprofitable Aion (which I also played 2009-present) is dumb. I've spent thousands in subscriptions and several hundred in the stores of both games. That ends immediately. Unless the decision to cancel this game is rescinded you'll never see another penny from me. I'll be telling everyone I know never to play your games because you don't value your western hemisphere players.

I have also created a Boycott NCSoft Facebook group which is growing in size every day. https://www.facebook.com/groups/517513781597443/

In the short term petitions gain a lot of support and I've signed them, but I doubt you care about them. In the long term I hope that my boycott campaign will do actual damage and that you should care about. Ask the President of Egypt how social media worked out for him.

I will never stop unless you reinstate COH and actually value your western hemisphere players like you do the eastern hemisphere ones. Your company's vision doesn't include us, our purchase decisions shouldn't include you. I've read your financial Q2 report. I am not ignorant, it's clear where you were earning and where you were losing money.

I won't stop until your company is bankrupt or City of Heroes and the entire staff of Paragon Studios reinstated.

Power to the player!

Angela Floyd
United States

Note: Here's the info
Mr. Taek Jin Kim
CEO NCsoft Corporation
1501 4th Avenue, Suite 2050 Seattle, WA 98101
USA Tel: (512) 225-6359 or 206-588-7200

I think you need to read this.

If only we could get the people supposedly on our side not to sabotage us.

Yeah. I hate to say it, Steele, but that's absolutely the wrong way to go about it. While the content is pretty much all true, you can't strike a confrontational tone with a CEO. You can't demand concessions from someone from whom we need a huge favor. Threats won't influence him in any constructive way.

Just came back from the mail room myself,
Took me forever to find an envelope,
FCM

Believe it or not that was the 'polite' draft. As much as I admire Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, the Dalai Lama, and Gandhi they are not the inspiration of my methods here. The Arab Spring is. I have no faith that our modern world respects the pacifist. I have even less faith that big money respects little money unless it is but to steal it.

I am more fight than flight.

It may end up in the waste basket, in fact it probably will. That does not change my resolve. If I fail I will at least have tried.

PS: If you think that was scathing you should read my political commentaries.

This is what I wrote:

I am writing to appeal to you to keep City of Heroes alive in some form. I subscribed to the game in December 2004 and my subscription has not ever lapsed. No other game has given me as much creative pleasure to play, because no other game features its character creator, large number of character slots, and fast pace of gameplay.

If NCsoft no longer desires the game as a part of its product roster in light of its financial situation, please allow someone to purchase Paragon Studios or the game's IP for further development.

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