FloatingFatMan

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Any word what's gonna happen to us?

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Afraid you'll all need to be patient to find out what happens with regards CoH in Europe. A whole helluva lot changed yesterday, and it's going to take some time for the folks at NCNC to formulate their plans going forward.

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It's appreciated that this is no longer your prime concern, GR, and not of your doing in the first place.

That said, I'd have hoped NCNC would have formulated their plans in advance, and have them ready to announce when the brown stuff hit the air shifter.

I'm getting the impression the bigwigs were down the pub Monday night and drew up plans along the lines of "we'll close the Brighton Office tomorrow, and when that's done...erm, we'll wing it".

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To be honest, and this is NOT a dig at GR at all, but I find it REALLY REALLY hard to believe that they'd take the decision to downsize (gut) the Brighton offices without also decided what to do regarding the EU community.

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Dont forget as well, they have only just overhauled the EU websites too, so things may bot be as bleak as they are being rumoured to be.


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It's highly unlikely that this decision had been made when the website was revamped. This is all down to the global recession.

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Thanks for the well wishes, everyone.

My position is 'potentially redundant' within the Brighton office, and at the current time I intend to accept voluntary redundancy. I'm not interested in living in the US.

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I wish you all the best for the future, Alex. You and everyone else there.

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If anybodys taken the name "noob buster" on the US servers i swear there will be hell

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Only a trial account atm But i do want to test their servers out though too. Posted a thread asking if anybody know how i can change the EU file to the US version (total techno noob).

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Just rename the updater exe to "Cohupdater.exe" instead of "CohUpdater.EU.exe".

In fact, you've probably already got that file.

It WILL ask you to reinstall.. Just install over the top, will only take it a second as it'll see the files there and just make the new registry entries.

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As of... 19 minutes ago... GR woke up with a hangover.

He's also hungry.

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So... I take it that means he's not actually at work, and possibly won't be returning there?

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not really considering u lot said merits were doom.

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Tried to find any rare recipes in the AH lately?

I've already posted what I think will end up happening, in the other thread.

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Including the Shirley Crabtree Appreciation Society?

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Shirley Crabtree was a horrible worker and was equally horrible towards his fellow professionals in the industry and was caught plenty of times showing absolute distain for the fans that came to see him when the TV cameras were turned off. He only ever got booked high up on the card because his brother was the promoter.


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And you know this how, exactly? Because I knew him since I was born, and he was NEVER like that to me, nor did I ever see him acting like that.

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Including the Shirley Crabtree Appreciation Society?

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Oi! You leave my uncle Shirley out of this!

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to Ghostraptor and everyone else at NC Brighton affected by this cutback: Best of luck for the future, wherever you end up.

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Echoing this too. Best of luck for the future folks.

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Well he is the big daddy - when we break the rules, he punishes us, like a parent And we are all the little children just growing up under his care...and he is gone now...that means we are orphans

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Speak for yourself little boy. Most people here are actually adults you know.

If GR is indeed gone, I see it inevitable that at the very least, the forums will be merged. It'd just be too much work to maintain 2 separate forums.

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most of you know what managers can be like.

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Oi! I resemble that remark!

NC Soft are VERY VERY good at failing to market games...

Looks like a repeat of what happened the other day then...

DOOOOOOOOOOM™

.... Hmmmm......


Can anyone connect to the game? I don't seem to be able to....

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Now it says 5 departments closed down whereas the original said 4.

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It said "IT QA" initially, which I thought a bit odd. Now it says "IT, QA" so clearly just a typo.

EDIT: Just looked at Rockjaw's blog. Seems his Twitter feed now has comments that it's actually between 15 and 30 people left.

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Yes well I'd put priorities at: those who the redundancies affect, then the EU.subscribers the news affects via a post on the EU.forums, then a press release to the games industry press.


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Not how the world works at all. It'll be:

1. Staff notified
2. Media notified
3. Subscribers notified ONLY if there will be changes affecting them, likely through a mailshot.

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Step up NCWest.

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GR's down the pub, and it's 8am at NCWest HQ. Give it time.

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Step up NCWest.

See nows about the time you post both here and in the Valentines Event thread (discussing the lay-offs) to reassure as all. The silence is not really all that comforting.

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I'd rather they pay NC Brighton's staff wages for another month than throw us a party...

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A slightly false analysis - I'd have to argue that a move to US servers would have to include the 'cost' of lost subscribers. The question is only how many would the move lose and very possibly wouldn't affect the eventual comparison (i.e. it'd lose subscribers but possibly still be cost effective).


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It wasn't really an "analysis" as such, more just what I think they will likely do. It's not based on any measuring of figures or taking anything into account other than my gut feeling of what would work out cheapest in the long run, whilst also retaining as many people as they can.

They've already effectively discontinued support for German and French players, at least on the forums. Discontinuing further support for them isn't going to lose them much more than it already has.

Copying our databases to their servers IS the cheapest solution for them, as is them granting server move tokens and name change tokens afterwards; all intangible stuff which costs them nothing.

You're free to offer your own predictions if you want though.

Actually, going by Rockjaw's Twitter feed, that's exactly where they all are.

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Anyway GR tell us whats happening, it wont hurt for long.

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IF he's even still there...

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Possibly dumb asking this question, as all this is based on pure speculation...

Why haven't you considered moving the 4 servers (physically or just data-wise) to the US list/server hosting?

Surely all that we know would definitely need to change would be the possibility of global names and channels, as characters would still exist on th esame logical server... so slightly harder to do but slightly less chance of hacking off your non-US userbase.

Serious question, as I may be missing something obvious (data protection laws maybe).

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Actually, I did consider that but dismissed it due to cost. Physically moving the servers to the US would cost 10's of 1000's. Adding 4 more servers to their cluster would cost 10's of 1000's. Copying us all to their existing server network? All that costs is the wages for the guy writing the db script, and he already gets paid that anyway.

I'll also add that, if they DID cut us off like that, it'd also be the last NCSoft game I'd ever buy, too!