Dear Devs, can you PLEASE throw us a bone here?

First Mercedes Lackey is accused of being a liar on the basis that she writes fiction for a living. Then she's called a liar because she made a mistake and confused revenue with profit.

Really, I don't expect anyone to accept a 2nd hand source as gospel. Until we have something more concrete, we should take everything with a grain of salt. But I don't understand the need to make personal attacks on someone who's gone out of her way to support our cause--and I don't care if it's a famous author or just someone ordinary Joe who wants to try to help. If it were me and I saw some of the things said in this thread, I'd say "screw you guys, I'm out of here."

First Mercedes Lackey is probably the most "famous" member of our community who has outed herself. And as much work TonyV has done I'm pretty sure that even with the proper introductions, NCSoft would only politely listen to Tony and then promptly forget about him. Retweets are cheap, sorry Felicia Day, Neil Gammon, Sean Astin, thank you for spreading the word but ML actually offered her name to NCSoft to get their attention.

I'm willing to give Ms Lackey my full support in this endeavor. I want someone to step up and buy the game. Yes her posts may contain inaccuracies but she's an author who decided to take up this challenge and we are a bunch of people who are willing to dig through quarterly reports and several year old game closing announcements to point them out, which does nothing to move "the talks" forward.

The reason I post about the financials and projected subscription numbers is solely keep the exaggerated rumors about the success of this game grounded in some semblance of reality. Even if those rumors started or is repeated from one of Ms Lackey's posts.

Guys, I'm right here...

It's pretty simple. Some people feel like other people are behaving like jerks. Everyone has different definitions, preferences, tolerances and expectations of what exactly being and/or acting-like a jerk is.

I really don't know how I come off on these forums or where people on any side of a debate want to place me, but yeah, I do look at the situation and prefer the spreading of positivity. Not blind optimism or anything like that. However, I also feel like a lot of the negativity I see some people nearly constantly posting is rather lousy, uncalled for and, in most cases, unhelpful and/or detrimental.
Detrimental to the chances of the game being saved (this is the lesser possibility in my opinion, but it still can impact it, no doubt), detrimental to the community overall (who wants to hear someone constantly spewing negativity? And who is the negativity directed at? Is it just to make yourself feel better? So is passing gas, but it's preferred if you move away first, please!) and detrimental to other people trying to deal with their own feelings and issues regarding losing this pastime, game and the community (we know some people have an enormous personal investment in all of this. I'm not going to judge them harshly for it... normal people work every day and then sit in front of the tv before passing out... People all over the place are heavily dependent on silly pastimes... and some people are in far worse situations, through no fault of their own, where their pastimes become much more meaningful and important and I'll gladly try and help them keep this game).

Heh, I imagine that some of the more negative-minded people would think me some follower-sheep or some sheltered, self-appointed adjudicator of morality... And that is rather humorous to me and to those who know me, but... Hey, it's worth the laugh. And, yeah, I've never been one to hold my tongue and it's not always pretty or positive, but I damn well have respect for overall situations and other people's concerns and I can't simply coldly look at this current situation and say, "Nyah... I'll post every day about my negative feelings regarding x, y or z... deal with it, forum fops!".
Nah, I'm just doing what I generally have always done around here... I crack jokes, I speak positively about what I believe is good and I try and confront untruths, rudeness and help anyone in the many small ways that people sometimes are looking for.

What does all this mean?
Nothing!
Carry on. Pat me on the back, kick me in the ***, ignore me, disagree with me... whatever.
Just don't misplace my speaking out against your negativity as anything more than this guy disagreeing with your approach.
And, as others have said... it's not the dissenting message or simple disagreement! Please! We'd all be completely ####'d (and I'd be bored out of my mind) if everyone happily agreed with everyone, hehe.
Most often, it's the manner in which it is expressed. Unfortunately (and I say this with zero maliciousness), most often, the people who express themselves in those ways, truly don't realize that the way they express themselves is seen as negatively as it is by most people.
So, what the hell can ya do about that?


So, yeah... let's all disagree where we disagree... But let's all just have some ####ing fun, eh? Sound good?

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Originally Posted by TonyV Guys, I'm right here...

'Sup Tony?
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By the way, anyone who disagrees is totally a troll.

*throws E-K a new pack of gum*

Enjoy!

two kinds of people in this thread.

the first is like myself and johnny...once the game shuts down we'll both be sad its gone but be able to move on with no issues


the 2nd is the rest of you....completely f*cked

Why do I suddenly have the feeling that City of Heroes was never actually a game, but a carefully orchestrated, long-term social experiment, to see what happens if you foster a community for several years, then suddenly shut off the unifying factor, and remove all moderation from the forum?