Anybody read this blog?

Who is this guy?? What a jackass...can we get a serious wake up call to this guy?? He is obviously either ignorant or unaware of the circumstances...and this is purely bad PR!

http://my.mmosite.com/801718/blog/it...g_too_far.html

Don't even bother dignifying it with a link. (You've also been scooped on this one already, FWIW.)

As the saying goes, "Everyone has a right to an opinion. That does not, however, automatically confer the right to be taken seriously." S/he is entitled to make a statement - but getting angry about it only diminishes our cause.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Well, it's the ignorance...calling us "oblivious and obnoxious gamers"...really?? How much is NCSoft paying this guy?

Nothing, he's a troll.

He's like the guy who posted here saying he doesn't watch anime because he's not a pedophile.

He's the guy that was behind me tonight in the 12 item or less express checkout lane with a cart full of groceries giving the checkout girl a hard time when she told him to use one of the other lanes, she eventually got the manager who told him to change lines or leave the store and never return. It's the only supermarket in a 15 mile radius. He begrudgingly moved.

There are people in this world that seem to enjoy popping children's balloons, calling the cops on the kids running a lemonade stand because they don't have a permit and generally tear people or causes down around them to make themselves feel better.

This is the internet, they win only if you acknowledge them.

Hey guys,

Let's not get too worked up about this. People have opinions, and it's not worth your time and effort to get worked up about them unless you really like doing that kind of thing.

Additionally, keep in mind how sites get revenue. Many sites (especially blogs) are supported by ad revenue. The way to make more money is to get more page views, and a great way to get page views is to post really controversial stuff. It gets you a lot of attention, ergo a lot of page views, ergo more ad clicks.

I'm not saying that's the case here, but when you see something that you disagree with, or find objectionable, it's often good to take a step back and think about the bigger picture.

~Freitag

... That explains why that one guy who wrote the "City of Children" blog post linked to it in the Kotaku article about the Unity Rally ...

Clicked the link. Greeted in top left corner by some emo anime avatar with poor image compression. That's all anyone should need to know to understand whatever follows isn't worth reading.

I make it a point not to care overly much about the opinions of people who both do not indent paragraphs and don't understand how to use white space.

Please consider doing yourself and us a favor, and deleting the link in the OP. No, not to censor yourself. Please realize you're HELPING that guy. Right now is not the time to be focused on whether people like that are right. Right now is the time to believe in ourselves and do what we've always done--demand what we want as customers. Paragon Studios never told us to stop doing that, and never wanted us to stop doing that. Why should we change now, because of some dude's blog? The answer is obvious. We shouldn't.

The energy that it takes to get worked up over some jackass on the Internet--think about it--where does that energy ever go? What does it DO? What are you LEFT with? In the end, you're left with nothing but lost time; and lost time means lost opportunities. Especially right now.

There are a dozen "Calls to action" by the Titan Network littered throughout this forum that would only make you feel GREAT if you responded to them, or came up with your own ways to help. The same energy expenditure, but for something that'll raise our odds of keeping our game and community with every extra person who helps. In most cases, just by TYPING STUFF!

Or, yeah, you can like, sit at your computer and be angry about jackasses on the Internet. And type away about that. Choice is yours. But I really think it should be an easy choice.

That's it, Arcanaville... you are the first person I have ever put on ignore!!!!

Why..because he/she makes sense? I have to agree with Arcanaville. As much as I'd like CoH to continue the F2P model was it's undoing. Still, good luck with your efforts to keep it alive.

Yeah, people will have their opinions that this game (and quite possibly other games) suck. That's their opinion. They're only right if you agree with them.

I don't see any reason to get too upset by this. If I was not already a player and heard that an old game was being shut down after years of running and a disappointing f2p transition, I'd think they were a bit nuts too. Of course that really wasn't what happened here--the game was shut down in the middle of development with no warning, with people losing money paid for subscriptions and points, and with no real consideration showed for the playing base at all. This guy likely has no way of knowing that and assumes that the game was shut down after slowly dying down and updates tapering off, like what sometimes happens. If that were the case, he'd be right.