Dear NCsoft Executives... YOU'RE FIRED!

You want a call to action? Here's your call to action:

Start sending emails to NCsoft's shareholders (including Nexon), to the media (including the Wall Street Journal), and to anyone else in Korea that will listen. List out the names of the NCsoft executives that are jeopardizing the company's ability to be profitable - and make it very clear that these individuals singlehandedly SANK NCsoft's profits and put the company's bottom line at risk BEFORE they pulled the plug on a profitable game like City of Heroes -- thereby making an already bad situation even worse. To leave the current executive leadership in charge means further jeopardizing the shareholder's investments and the company's ability to remain profitable. GET RID OF THEM!

Make your letters short, sweet and to the point! Not sure who to name? Look here: http://investing.businessweek.com/re...cker=036570:KS

It's time to stop talking to BAD MANAGEMENT that's struggling to save face and start talking to the other players in the industry who can implement *positive* changes to remove bad management... Maybe then we'll get someone at the top who will listen and reconsider our stance on City of Heroes and Paragon Studios. We CANNOT be nice anymore! So let's take some names and demand their removal...

Sun Tzu wouldn't expect anything less and neither should we!

Unless you have irrefutable proof that you could supply to these people, I'd suggest not doing this.

You can't just write to people with here say and rumour with regards to NCSoft employees, you would have to have 100% proof that you could cite at a moments notice to support your claims. The word 'slander' springs to mind.

Shareholders generally only care about one thing... profit and stocks sea saw up and down all the time. The way they handled the closing of Paragon Studios and ending the game may not effect them in the long run, only time will tell. While I personally will never knowingly have anything thing to do with any game or company involved with NCSoft ever again, there are potential gamers out there that #1 don't know NCSoft's history or #2 Don't care about NCSoft's history. People seem to have the memory of a fruit fly and are very forgiving when it comes to parting with their hard earned cash in exchange for entertainment.

I have the feeling that the blow back from this CoX fiasco will end up being more like a shin kick to NCSoft instead of the kick to its nuts (followed by a double back hand slap) like I'd like it to be...

Well, at minimum, THANK YOU, Rubberlad, since merely the title of this thread caught my attention and made me laugh!!!!! ((God's teeth, after logging out of game, i've been up all night reading forums and networking with sg mate who long along transformed from fellow players to friends.))

I think the points about Slander and irrefutable proof are valid; however, I think your idea is not only creative but equally valid regarding negotiating with a bad upper management team. I suggest (strongly) that you post this idea to Titan Network/TonyV and Mr W, since while there is fan-ac (fan activity) there like here, Titan (imo) is getting more thoughtful posts from players with backgrounds ranging from Info Tech to Fair Use Laws to business/finance people analysing NCSoft and ways to approach Corporate/negotiate to Media contacts and Community Action to a forum dedicated to generating capital and entrepreneurial investment/purchase of the IP. (And apologies to any who feel I'm dissing the official forums; it's simply that I've personally seen more ser-con (serious/constructive) discussions on Titan Network and it's easier to find them, than I find on the forums here, though both have merit and there's stuff here on the official forums I love that exists nowhere else.)

The entire CoH Community wants to restore Paragon Studios and save City of Heroes; the question is How Best To Do This? And closely related to this, is How Best Do We As A Community Co-ordinate Our Activities To Achieve This?

Meanwhile, while off-topic, I always find this vid uplifting and inspiring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMrN3Rh55uM Game On! by the Guild

First, NCSoft is saying that they can't get a good enough return on investment for CoH.

Then, they say they can't sell/license it for a negotiated price. To me its obvious, they feel someone else may prove them incompetent, make money AND hurt their current MMO share.

If they sold it then they wouldn't think CoH could return investment, they wouldn't fear CoH makes money or steal market share.

They are AFRAID to sell it and be shown up by a buyer/licensee.

Hmmm, I may well stand (or sit) corrected. Please carry on!

1) Yes, there has been a decline recently (from a high in October 2011), but then it is also far higher than it was 2 years ago (it is roughly equivalent to its level Jan 2011). Source: Reuters: 5 year view *edit* You actually need to click the 5Y button to get the view up, i forgot about my cookies keeping it in that view

2) One quarter of loss in profits, which they have attributed to a One off labor cost. Strangely enough, their *revenues* via game sales/micro transactions has increased from Q1, although it *is* lower Year on Year (for Q2 2012). Source: Same as yours.

3) Not going to touch this one

4) Yes, they have closed MMO's in the past (or shut down servers for a region...

5) *edit* As this is now fixed I will now comment. Date of article is 2007, mentions his wife in it for all of 2 paragraphs in it. (Article is titled "NCsoft CEO stands at cross roads". It is more about the misfortunes of stock decline, decreasing revenues *at that point in time*). She was already an outside director of the board *before* the marriage.

6) The "Scandels"... if you had read them correctly (or knew more about them) you would have at least picked *just* the RG one.

6:i) Stolen Source Code: Well, this wasnt a controvosy on NCsoft's part. The thieves were convicted of this crime

Thanks Robey. I'm not registered at the Titan Network, and its not something I can do easily over a cell phone during the work day right now but feel free to repost my original action item and supporting post if you think it will help.

Gangrel: Hyperlink for point #5 is now fixed.

And now you may consider this actually done, Rubberlad: http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.....html#msg58108

Thanks Robey!

I'd like to add some small information here: The bad decisions did not begin with TJ Kim. They were omnipresent under Jae Ho Lee. I witnessed how it was to work with the man first hand. It was not pretty. In fact, it was awful. He had no respect for his Western coworkers and made no effort to conceal it.