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He used palette when he meant palate, thus proving that he's a pretentious moron of gargantuan proportion.





Or not. But it's still funny.

A LOTRO fellowship maxes at six people, not four.

If you mean that it's sold on Steam, then that's true. But then so is DCUO and CoH.

Otherwise, CO is owned and operated by PWE.

Um, no.

Actually, investors in companies like this are primarily focused on growth, not the last quarter's profits.

Nor is there any evidence that it was a bad decision, either.

I know, that would be nice. Although you kind of spoiled it by making up facts yourself.

Here are the facts, as far as I'm aware:

Revenue:
CoH was making about $10M/year in gross revenue.

Costs:
Paragon employed roughly 80 people.
Servers were run in Austin, not part of Paragon.
Support was run by NCSoft, not part of Paragon.
Web development in Seattle, not part of Paragon.

There are no facts available about the profitability of CoH.

Thanks Feycat.

It was both. Also, you should stop quoting me. How is poor Captain Electric going to ignore me if you keep quoting me?

Ironic. I expected you to mean what you were saying, which was an obvious faux pas on my part, given your history.

If you're able to say, authoritatively, who has and has not sent in a mask and cape, then you have access to personal information that you shouldn't.

That's so blindingly obvious you should be able to see it through the ignore box.

Nope, just another day in the wonderful, awesome, 'if you're not with us you're against us' CoH community.

That's cool, you clearly weren't paying attention anyway. I'll just watch you continue to do damage to the cause you think you're helping.

Ah, so personal information leaking out of SaveCOH isn't serious.

Can I quote you on that?

Interesting privacy implications in that statement.

Hmm, did I miss this? What's the (rough) level of the quest?

In my experience, that's not the way I've seen it work in small companies. There is actually zero reason for the former Paragon employees to be left in the dark considering that their future employment situation would be directly impacted by the negotiations. There's huge reason for them not to tell anyone else, of course, because that could mess up negotations - but for Paragoners to be left in the dark makes no sense.

ML made some incorrect statements. I and others have pointed that out. Now I wasn't aware of the psychological handicap that made her incapable of apologizing for getting her information wrong, but now that I am, I'm totally behind her. (There, now my sarcasm coefficient matches yours.)

I am, in fact, not impatient for news. I'm just here to point out that the golden idol has feet of clay. It doesn't mean she's not doing good things for CoH, it just means that, as ever, that taking someone's word for granted, especially when they're telling you what you want to hear, is dangerous.

Nope, doesn't count. Say it with a straight face, without the insults and denials.

BTW, if that's actually true, it's pretty damn dysfunctional. If I want to know what's going on in my company's negotiations, I just call my CEO (or pop my head into his office). Unless ML is a party to the negotiations (in which case she's screwing up by the numbers), doesn't it strike you as odd that people who've been working together for years are suddenly not speaking to each other?

No problem. I'll do that. Right after you admit that you thought Google owned Facebook.

That's hilarious. You said Google runs Facebook. Go ahead and try to weasel out of it, it's entertaining.

Or you could, you know, man up and admit you made a mistake.

kind of implies that 'outstanding purchased paragon points' would be refunded, but it's obviously unclear if that's really intended.

So you're willing to follow people with the "Authority" label even when what they say contradicts established facts.

Oh well, so is most of the rest of the world.

You played CoH, right? Just checking.

And no, Google doesn't own the Internet. But if you think you can spend any significant amount of time on the net without touching Google services, you're delusional.

But hell, I already know you're delusional, you think Google runs Facebook.

None of which absolves you from being too damned lazy to punch two words into *any* search engine.

You're on the internet. That ship has sailed.