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Good luck with that Riverdancer! One of my friends raved to me about the beautiful artwork and user-friendly interface is for GW2 and acknowledges it still has that, but went from praising GW2 the first two weeks to saying she hates it in less than 2 months and that it's not half the game GW1 was.|
Originally Posted by Riverdancer
This was posted yesterday by the nice folks at NCSoft:
So long and thanks for all the fish I don't believe they were ever going to sell the property, and I think there's a LOT of PR spin words in that release. <shrug> Bullcrap and lies are in orange. Anyway, it's been a slice folks. If you're interested, a few of us are playing Guild Wars 2 on Darkhaven server. I'm Riverdancer. . |
Myself, I'm waiting to see how NCSoft handles matters with the CoH Community & the Formerly-Known-As-Paragon-Studios development team and until they either make things right for all of us (such as selling the IP in a manner that restores the dev team and our game) or the servers get shut down, I'm not touching another NCSoft product.
aka @Kristoff von Gelmini, leader of small SG bases (Infinity/Victory/Virtue/Protector), member of The House of Tera (Justice) and various others (Champion/Infinity/Victory/Guardian/Freedom).
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Umm. They said it's done. They tried and it didn't work. |
Originally Posted by JohnRobey
Myself, I'm waiting to see how NCSoft handles matters with the CoH Community & the Formerly-Known-As-Paragon-Studios development team and until they either make things right for all of us (such as selling the IP in a manner that restores the dev team and our game) or the servers get shut down, I'm not touching another NCSoft product. |
Boycotting NCSoft won't hurt their bottom line in the least.
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There may be options they didn't consider trying. I for one am willing to wait and see. At this point however, I tend to agree with you, but taking a million-to-one shot is worth more than not trying at all.
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Originally Posted by Riverdancer
Umm. They said it's done. They tried and it didn't work.
Boycotting NCSoft won't hurt their bottom line in the least. |
"Don't you know dead is spelled m-e-n-t-a-l in CoH? - SapphireShot
It's not over. It's not over at all. They didn't need to say anything at all. This is business-speak for "You're scaring us, please go away now."
They staggered. HIT HARDER. Send more letters. Use social media. Reach every contact you can think of. HIT. HARDER.
Stay polite. Stay reasonable.
Keep the PR, the *negative* PR, coming. We're the heroes. Act like a hero - Be professional, polite, and reasonable.
Let NCSoft keep digging. They're in a hole now. They have two choices...dig deeper, and become #mmokiller, or back up. Give them a way to backtrack and make themselves look better while doing so.
BE INSISTENT.
This is not the end.
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"Mommy, I need Cthulhu. He keeps the bad dreams away."
Yeah I can't / won't give up until the servers are off. And I'll enjoy my time until then and THEN play something different - which won't be a NCSoft game. Yeah, it probably wont hurt their bottom line - but its the only power I'll have left.
-Kult
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Sorry. But I'm not going to invest in another one of their MMO properties.|
Originally Posted by Riverdancer
Boycotting NCSoft won't hurt their bottom line in the least.
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They've already shown they'll take a property that's in the black and flush it.
It's also highlighted exactly how bad of an idea it is to spend real money in their online stores. Yeah, the stuff will go away "some day". Everyone knows this. The abrupt cancellation of a property that was doing okay (maybe not "WoW" okay, but okay) simply shines a few zillion candle-power flood lamp on this. This makes me ill-disposed to give them any of my money.
They've fallen into a cycle of "Triple A MMO Churn and Burn". That's basically playing russian roulette, as they've had a couple of their Triple A titles crash and burn spectacularly.
On top of that I have exactly ZERO interest in a fantasy grindfest.
Also, due to the entire ridiculous treatment they've given the whole thing, I'll be actively discouraging any and everyone I meet from investing in NCSoft (and NCSoft-backed) games in the near future.
For an antisocial guy, I know a LOT of people. So my reach goes a LOT further than just the confines my pocketbook.
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Originally Posted by Riverdancer
If you're interested, a few of us are playing Guild Wars 2 on Darkhaven server. I'm Riverdancer.
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but
There are just so many things in the Guild Wars business model that depend on the trustworthiness and honor of the provider. NCsoft has shown none of these qualities.
The way I'm looking at GW2 is as if it's any other game I pay a flat fee for. Once I get my $60 worth of enjoyment out of it, and it's still around, great! If it goes away, no hard feelings. I'm making a point of not spending any additional money for gems for All The Cool Things since I can convert ingame currency to gems. Sure, it's taking me much longer than if I were to spend $20 on their equivalent of points and get what I want, but I refuse to invest more money than the initial game cost.
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Charnage: "Please. Think of the poor defenseless desks."
"The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. It failed... In the year of the Praetorian War, it became something greater... our last, best hope for victory."
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Originally Posted by StormVyxen
The way I'm looking at GW2 is as if it's any other game I pay a flat fee for. Once I get my $60 worth of enjoyment out of it, and it's still around, great! If it goes away, no hard feelings. I'm making a point of not spending any additional money for gems for All The Cool Things since I can convert ingame currency to gems. Sure, it's taking me much longer than if I were to spend $20 on their equivalent of points and get what I want, but I refuse to invest more money than the initial game cost.
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I am enjoying the hell out of the game, and I'd recommend it to anyone. It's fun. Will I purchase out of pocket in the store? Probably not.
But honestly, it's not the game for me. Fun is good, but I'd be just as happy in WoW (yes, with the Pandas), or SW:TOR, or RIFT, Age of Conan, or any other MMO as long as the people that made CoH FUN for me to play were there. Home is where your heart is, and your heart is where your family and friends are. I got lucky in that I consider mine to be both. Note: Some of my family here haven't come over to the dark side, and I miss them terribly every time I log in.
[you know who you are]We miss you an awful lot. Please come home. I read somewhere that the average lifespan of an MMO is about 4-5 years, so if that's true, City of Heroes had an excellent run. Sure, I'll miss it (lord, how I miss travel powers!), but in the end, it's still just a bunch of pixels on a screen. My friends are real, and we can be pixels anywhere. It's being pixels together that counts.
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Originally Posted by riverdancer
some of my family here haven't come over to the dark side, and i miss them terribly every time i log in.
[you know who you are]we miss you an awful lot. |
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I wish I could feel that way. I admit that I don't like the fact when I buy an online game, I haven't really "bought" anything except a window of time where I can use the game. I mean I still have my copy of sim city <- no version number for windows 3.1 and I can still play it.|
Originally Posted by StormVyxen
The way I'm looking at GW2 is as if it's any other game I pay a flat fee for. Once I get my $60 worth of enjoyment out of it, and it's still around, great! If it goes away, no hard feelings. I'm making a point of not spending any additional money for gems for All The Cool Things since I can convert ingame currency to gems. Sure, it's taking me much longer than if I were to spend $20 on their equivalent of points and get what I want, but I refuse to invest more money than the initial game cost.
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With MMOs the bucks I gave game companies were the tip of the iceberg. The time spent learning the game and getting comfortable with it far outweighs the costs of a game. The time getting to know people goes even beyond that. When they close it's just awful.
I don't want to rain on anyone's picnic. There is more than enough sadness to go around with what's coming our way and I am sure that Arena Net will be kept going for a long while.
I played GW2 for a while, mostly because I pre-purchased it long before the CoX cancellation (so I was darn well going to get my moneys worth) and because I am a long time fantasy player, been playing DnD since I was 12 and started my online gaming with Asheron's Call and Everquest.
However I started playing SW:ToR again and got sucked back into that, even to the point of finding a guild (usually I am a serious loner). I am playing on the shadowlands right now in "The Older Republic" guild if anyone wants to try to look me up. Without globals its kind of hit and miss, since I alt nearly as much in ToR as I did in CoX but my republic main is my Jedi Guardian Cu'culainn and my empire main is my bounty hunter Fiachna.
FYI - My GW2 chars are on darkhaven as well River, global is Midnight Mystique (Midnight Mystique.6359 if you need the full unique)
Globals: @Midnight Mystique/@Magik13
Simple fact is, they stopped taking my money. I wasn't willing to stop giving to them.
Oh well, right now they have nothing more I want so they'll become the online equivalent of the gas station that I don't stop at because the prices are too high.
we're not dead yet. And, if nothing else we have until the 30th. Get in there. PLay. Enjoy it while we have it. And, if you have the ability, make more noise. Even if we don't save this game, we'll make a mark that might affect the next one that gets shut down.
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This was posted yesterday by the nice folks at NCSoft:
So long and thanks for all the fish
Once again, we will be holding events throughout the process of preparing for the game's end, and we encourage players and fans of the franchise to join forces and enjoy their time in a game that we've enjoyed supporting for more than eight years.
The NCSOFT® Team
I don't believe they were ever going to sell the property, and I think there's a LOT of PR spin words in that release. <shrug> Bullcrap and lies are in orange.
Anyway, it's been a slice folks.
If you're interested, a few of us are playing Guild Wars 2 on Darkhaven server. I'm Riverdancer.
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