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Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master

while it is true that the boycott movement is not gonna do much, i still refuse to support them if they kill off this game, i dont care how good guild wars 2 is or how much money its making them, they still lost a potential customer here, and even though ill im only 1 person, if coh does go down i will still start spreading hate of ncsoft saying that they could randomly shut your game down at any time without so much as a warning.

if ncsoft is not willing to sell coh and lets it die, then ncsoft will not receive any support from me and if anything negative publicity in the form of word of mouth and internet posts.

right now i am working with all of the other people who are trying to be reasonable with ncsoft to get them to sell coh to either the current devs or the titan network guys, but if they are unwilling to be reasonable then they get no more chances

Originally Posted by HI IM A UNICORN

I think if I cared for anyones view on my attitude it would have changed from the first post. Keep trying to get under my skin, its endearing at best.

Originally Posted by Llydia

MadGremlin, not from me. Converting everything into a consolidated PDF is the work of a lifetime. I'm just trying to find as much as I can, saving all the great stories possible that were composed over the course of City Of Heroes will have enough content for me to read throughout the rest of my lifetime. Reformatting into something else is beyond my capacity.

I looked at hosting them on Google Docs, but even the first file I check (one from Whitmoore) was over the 1,024,000 characters / 2MB limit per document. And that's without avatars or signatures.

Anyone with similar questions: If I can't figure anything else out before the forums go down, email me at CoHjm2012 (@} gmail {dot) com and we can arrange a SASE.

(In case anyone doesn't know, SASE = Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope. Meaning you pay for postage both ways and the USB storage; I contribute my computer and time without monetary compensation.)

Originally Posted by Terwyn

I've had a growing suspicion that I'd like confirmed one way or the other.

If it came down to the choice of saving the game, or saving the studio, which would you consider the preferable outcome?

I, personally, would much rather save the studio. Games are code, and can be rebuilt.

Originally Posted by JChaos

Errr, off topic, but your BoycottOwl boycott seems to be improperly formatted. The demands you listed are demands you're giving to your boycotters, not to the company to get them to end the boycott.

Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU

Ironically, living by this rule, all those CoX players really shouldn't have complained.

/sarcasm

(yes, this will be game number 5 (or 6 if you include the closure of Lineage in the western market) that they would have closed down.

Originally Posted by Zyphoid

It is also fair to note that not just CoH players are planning on Boycotting NCSoft for this move. There are posters on the WoW boards, and the D3 boards saying the same thing.

Originally Posted by Starsman

I was going to say the same but after going to the link... the reviews are not all doom and gloom. Sure there are some bad reviews, but there are some positive too. No 5 stars but I have never met anyone that will openly admit his job is the best job they can ever dream off (never met a some one that was self employed )

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

But it's like boycotting Fox because they canceled Firefly or NBC because they canceled Journeyman or Warner Brother's Batman movies because of the Schumacher films. You can, it'll just be a time when you run out of places you aren't boycotting to get your gaming on.

Originally Posted by JoeKent

Well the boycott is on and seems to be getting ncsoft's attention. We are not going to win this by holding hands and singing kumbia .

Originally Posted by Feycat

You're not going to win by lashing out at the rest of the community, or innocent people, either.

Out of curiosity, do you have a cite for NCsoft's attention? I'd honestly love to see it.

Originally Posted by LittleDavid

And there's always crowdfunding. We've got a number of people here who said they'd pay up to $1,000 just to save the game from death.

Even if nobody pays THAT much into it, there's still a lot of us who'd be willing to contribute even just a small amount.

Originally Posted by LittleDavid

I don't think TonyV's posted a specific Call to Action thread for this.

I told somebody I know about the ongoing efforts to get the word out about City of Heroes' death and the player base's attempts to stop it from happening. I showed him some of the articles that have been published already.

His response was,

"So that's two articles from one site I've barely even heard of, and one I've never heard of. Where is Kotaku? Where is The Verge? Where is Ars Technica? FFS, where's Slashdot, even?"

He does have a point. It's awesome that there's blogging and journalism sites covering our fight ... but have there been any efforts to get the bigger sites covering this with the same focus that Gamenguide and Addicting Info have?

Originally Posted by Leo_G

*gets a chance to see Forbin's sig*

Lol okay I'm still laughing

Originally Posted by Leo_G

NCsoft does't make those products, they fund the studios that hire the talent that makes those products. To boycott a game you believe is worth buying because you hold a grudge against some business huddle that made a bad decision is also punishing the artist paying their student loans and feeding his wife and kids who was hired by a company who decided that artist was worth giving a salary to.

“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”

“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”

The other studios under the NCsoft name had no participation in what happened to Paragon Studios. I bet the workers of Paragon Studios are mad at the situation they're in but I doubt they will hold a grudge. Video Games are part of the entertainment industry and the entertainment industry is even more cut-throat than just regular business fare.



Do you only buy from thrift shops and mom-and-pop stores? Do you run your car on vegetable oil? Do you make all your own shoes or buy your clothes from only professional seamstresses who handcraft all their wares? If not, you support super-stores like Walmart who put mom-and-pop stores out of business. You support oil refineries that barely give two ****s about the environment. Those clothes and shoes were probably made by underpaid kids sweating in factories for long hours. Those hamburgers were probably made from mass-farmed cows whose living conditions are so horrid I couldn't describe it.

Buck up. Unless you isolate yourself from anything mass-produced, you're likely deriving your products from the suffering of others.

It's one thing to be picky about who you buy your products from and it's another to hold your ideals on a hypocritical soap box just because you feel wronged.