Cash-eesh

As of 11:12 PM PST, the SaveOurCityOfHeroes petition was at 15,895 signatures. If each of them paid 15 bucks a month, that would be 2,861,100 bucks a year.


Am I missing something here? I have read all the info, "restructure", GW2 failing, cutting losses, and perhaps not being an international corporation CEO means I don't see some sort of "fine print" but I just can't see WTF is going on???

Ok, remove a crapload of folks who won't/can't pay that, remove a bunch of fake names, and then solve for computational error, and you would STILL be making bank off this game. WTF? I am just not geting it.

GW2 isn't failing, but that is besides the point. The quarterly loss that seems to be connected to CoH getting the axe was $6 million. In a financial quarter, a period of three months, they lost two years worth of revenue from your projected amount, which I am unsure of because I don't know if non-CoH players could have signed the petition due to word of mouth.

They thought it was worth 8 years of their time.

Consider that a lot of the players do not read the forums and would not know of the event.

And remember that a lot of people did not come because of appointments.

I am also sick of hearing about people who don't pester developers who like games or swear on a copy of The Web of Arachnos that they will boycott NCSoft that they are bad people and "accepting defeat" will others are "saving" it.

It's a video game, stop being so melodramatic about it. We had a great run, much more than many other mmos and the concern I have over the situation goes out to the developers who lost their jobs. They are the ones that need our support.

While some of the campaigning has been okay, things liked emailing Valve to pick up the game and boycotting NCSoft is just as effective as changing your Facebook profile picture to a cartoon to end child abuse. It's a way to make you feel like your doing something while you aren't.

CoH makes a lot more than this in a year. But that's revenue, not profit. Besides, it's not that much money which is why it's easy to cut it off.

Edit: That_Ninja, while I agree about the effectiveness of some of the campaigns, they're not the major campaigns, so what's the point of discussing them further? Yes, people are trying to save the game, and that would also be good for the developers, while saying "we had a great run" will do nothing for them.

The way I see it is that the petition is not, by itself, a weapon. The rally in Atlas is not, in itself, a weapon. All these things that show community support are not, themselves, weapons.

They are ammunition.

There are Big Guns who are also trying to keep the game open (a lot of celebrities play CoH and also don't want to see the game go, and there are hints that what remains of Paragon Studios is fighting for its survival), and they need these shows of support. (In the case of Paragon, they've said directly to keep these shows of support coming)

NC Soft is probably not going to listen to the players directly, but we can and are spurring others - people that NC Soft will listen to - into action.

lol @ the idea people think that's all this game had for players. Last report i saw (can't remember excatly where) says close to 100k + members.
The financial costs and failings is from NcSoft side, CoH has been in the plus for profits for a good while now.

Do you have a source on that info?