TimTheEnchanter
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Quote:You mean the reports that say nothing about how much it was costing them to run?Originally Posted by Brillig
Show the proof from the reports.
I'm sure you won't and will justify it as "not feeding the trolls."
Either believe what folks in PS have said or don't. NCsoft is clearly unwilling to produce their own counter argument.
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Quote:Alternate scenario is, Brian posts about it. And the common response would then be, "How do we know you're really him?"Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
You can call people trolls all you want - it's a simple and ineffective way of not answering the questions people keep asking. Your proof is your NCSoft Stockwatch thread; which shows Titan has NO clue how stocks work. Your proof is Mercedes Lackey saying "Brian Clayton told me this."
Proof is impossible these days. Even when the odds are good (And the odds here are not good since we have the opaque wall of corporate privacy to contend with AND the anonymity of the internet). Never before has technology made it so easy for skeptics to adhere to their beliefs... or lack of belief... whatever you want to call it. Everything but physically being there in person when it happens, can be faked. And even the example I just mentioned is probably on the way out. Someone will get a Total Recall style mind-trick to work, and then even our own experiences will be in question. -
Am I imagining this, or was there a longbow heli that once existed to transport you to something related to the Winter event?
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Quote:I don't know about anyone else, but my use of the word "troll" has never been about whether or not someone disagrees with SaveCoH, Titan, etc. It's about how that disagreement is delivered. The trouble is, while there are some who have very logical objective viewpoints and have tried to convey those viewpoints without getting nasty, there are others who have taken sides and spat their opinions with undeserved harshness. They are doing so not because they actually care about one side or the other, but just because they want to have a fight, or just see a convenient excuse to insult people. Those are the trolls. And they have tainted the image of both "sides" on numerous occasions.Originally Posted by Fire_Away
Next came the attitude that the players were going to save the game. The bigger you could make your signature block or the more outragous claim you could make that you were personally were not going to let this happen, the more admiration you received from Titan. The chest beating drowned out whatever small voice of reason that existed otherwise and people who felt differently were immediately branded as "trolls".
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Quote:Ohh, OK. Sorry.Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
You misunderstood - when I said pre 8/31 posts: I mean here on the forums. If Joe Schmoe had said "I heard from so and so that this is going to happen" I would not have believed him either... and now when I see Joe Schmoe saying "I heard from so and so this is going to happen" I still don't have any reason to believe them.
Glassdoor is a POS website plain and simple. I have looked up some of my former employers and they barely rate better than NCSoft and these were WONDERFUL places to work - Ex employees...and even current ones under the veil of anonymity can be overly critical to the point of ruthless. I wouldn't use glassdoor in a project that asked for PROOF for fear I would be laughed at.
About glassdoor though, if their claims were false, I would expect a much vaguer description of the problems. Generally when have a bunch of random people describe an experience, if they weren't all really there, you'd get a very diverse account of it. The glassdoor complaints that all seem to have in common is, "The Korean office doesn't get us" and mismanagement. Were these rare isolated incidents, I'd expect everyone's experiences to be much less unified. Unless you're thinking all the ex-employees just read what was already there and decided to copy it. But what would be the point? -
Quote:I wasn't presuming that the pre 8/31 posts had anything to do with CoH, not directly anyhow. But those posts point to the same problem that a lot of us feel directed NCsoft's decisions about CoH. While I won't call it disrespect, there is at least a misunderstanding and/or poor management of their Western branches, and consequently, the Western market.Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
And I am referencing the wording "official source." All these "I heard from so and so" and "look at this website you can post to anonymously" statements that are supposed to be fact...are not fact. Until someone official states something themselves...it is just hearsay. I wouldn't take ANY posters comment pre 8/31 as fact regarding the future of the game- and see no reason to do so now.
So in order for anything to actually come to light, we not only need an anonymous official source, we need a martyr willing to be sued for every cent he/she is worth, and willing to never have a job again due to being a liability (who is going to hire anyone who leaks company secrets?). Convenient. -
Quote:An argument to what? You saying the internet is run by bad analogies? That's not something to be argued. That's was you responding with a troll response because you had nothing more valid to say against it. So, what needed arguing?Originally Posted by Brillig
At least Starsman is attempting to present an argument.
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Quote:More specifically I was referring to this...Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
So until an OFFICIAL announcement by someone who is/was DIRECTLY involved in CoH is made regarding these supposed claims - I will call it what it is: Hearsay.
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/NCs...ews-E23242.htm
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Quote:Actually, most just splurge on crap and don't even try to invest in anything. But then again that's probably not even accurate? How often do you see news reports about the lotto winners who are actually careful with their money? It's not that they're not there. It's just that reporting on them is no different then reporting on the guy who DIDN'T murder someone. No intrigue = no ratings.Originally Posted by Brillig
Threads like these pretty clearly illustrate why lottery winners so often end up in financial trouble down the road...
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Quote:Only bad to you, because it's accurate.Originally Posted by Brillig
In the same way that bad analogies are powering the Intarwebz.
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"I don't always play the lottery, but when I do, it's so I can buy CoH."
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Quote:So it's wrong to speculate on any wrongdoing by NCsoft, but it's OK to do it to PS?Originally Posted by Brillig
No, you didn't. (Fix anything for me.)
There is no basis to draw any conclusion as to why Paragon got so many projects killed. It's as likely that it was because they were complete carp as anything else.
Hypocrite.
And say what you want about the other projects, which seem to have been shuttered with no explanation. That a company as big as NCsoft couldn't even give PS a pittance for a marketing budget is insulting. Why should I assume that PS got any more respect when it came to the other projects? -
Quote:Maybe, but often sounds are even better at triggering memories than images.Originally Posted by SinergyX_EU
Knowning demo playback will work, i'm already happy with that
its most probably just to create a screenshot for my characters, not really the sound. -
Spyral, "failed to find funding for" might even be too nice, considering how much funding other non-PS projects got.
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Quote:You are un-smart.Originally Posted by Brillig
No, Paragon Studios failed to
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Quote:Ohh, alright well I've got one then. All I'd do is send him three ghosts.Originally Posted by JohnRobey
I'd like to be in the same room with Mr. Kim just after the servers are shut off but while City of Heroes is still in range and cast HOWLING TWILIGHT.
(Hey! Who said anything about realistic?! This is my revenge fantasy!)
It's close enough to the holidays, right?
Though I don't know if that's really revenge, although the part where he gets scared ****less would be entertaining. But that's mainly a constructive act. Those ghosts are good therapists and great at reforming people. -
I'm thinking that in the future, someone will find a way to fix that sound glitch.
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Quote:Trust Fire_Away to tell you who the captain is.Originally Posted by Fire_Away
Anyway, why worry? GG was right. The only thing wrong with City of Heroes for eight years was the lack of flowing hair. Besides, the work on a successor is well in hand. She said so.
Trust the captain of the Titanic when the ship went down, that iceberg was taught a lesson it'll never forget. -
Quote:Yeah, remember when folks was mad about that? "Get some official sources." And then when there's sources about something, those sources aren't good enough, because they're 'obviously biased.' Gee, couldn't have seen that coming.Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
Wild speculation on forums is a better source than inside information from a manager, right?
Jkedan prefers the world where nothing can ever be officially proven. Everything is a U.F.O. photo that 'might' be fake.
Any speculation is just positive thinking.
Anything we hear from someone who knows a source, is just a lie.
Anything we hear directly from the source, is also just a lie.
Incoming wild speculation: NCsoft-sanctioned troll?
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Quote:Yep. Sad truth. PvP balance sucks a LOT of the cool out of games, and wastes TONS of time that could be put to better use. Just imagine, EVERY single new powerset introduced taking months, possibly years, to balance out with all the others. No. I've reached a point now where I'm almost convinced that PvE and PvP don't belong in the same game. Not because those types of players can't get along, but because those types of gameplay mechanics can't.Originally Posted by Bin Man
Oh I agree, I just think that due to the sheer amount of choice of abilities the balancing act becomes 90% of the Dev time if they decided to focus on PvP. Fortunately they didn't and we got loads of other cool things instead.
In order to balance PvP in CoX, we probably would've had to do away with the intricate AT's and powersets altogether, going with a much more basic class system ripped off of WoW. -
Quote:Try telling that to shareholders who see anything less than trying for ALL of the pie as a form of treason.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
If you are going to copy something, and in this context thus likely be competing against it, it would seemingly make very little sense to copy the unassailable giant. Better off establishing a relatively steady niche, I'd say.
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Quote:If I were to go by what modern television says, all Villains are created by either losing a loved one, or by being refused love.Originally Posted by Cassandra
And that is why he sulked back to his secret laboratory and triggered the Doomsday weapon. "If I can't have her, then life's not living! Not for me, not for her, not for anyone!!!"
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Quote:Indeed. And if there is an option to petition for such a thing, I'm open to it. The amount of time I've wasted on political correctness when it comes to forum posts is on gender issues is crazy. Often I'll try to refrain from them altogether and only use the forum handle, which has the side-effect of making me seem like a computer from a pre-90's sci-fi movie. Otherwise I'm replacing "Him" with "him or her", and all other variants that it implies, which is equally annoying to write (and probably to read).Originally Posted by Evil_Legacy
And thus the whole point of the sig. People dont have to assume anymore here.
but statements like "Stating you are female before any other impression (Except for possibly your name/forum avatar) is kind of asking for sexism." is seeming to say that I'm asking for sexism by stating I'm female instead of just letting me assumed male, which in actually if that was the case then being assumed male wouldnt be happening it would be about equal either way. Basically if it's ok, by that statement, to be assumed male, then why isnt it equally ok to be assumed female? And answer like "oh that is just the way it is" doesnt mean the underlying thing about it in itself is not sexist. If it isnt, then it shouldnt be automatically assumed male unless specifically stated. To avoid that, it may be best to ask first before assuming gender if the typer/texter/speaker is going to use gender based language towards their audience but since they are probably not, then the sig. is and should be justified. And Justified even more by your statement.
Which leads me to my next question those those that seem to think my sig is THAT big of a deal. With all that have been said, what is the issue? It should be easier now. It eliminate the guessing. And why is saying female is an issue but not for a male to say the same thing in their signature? Sounds like classic sexism to me.
I never recommended that she be used as generic. I asked why is it always assumed male and if the internet is supposedly gender neutral and gender is irrelevant why cant it be assumed female at times? Or why isnt there a gender neutral term? From my understanding there isnt a gender neutral term and thus the internet is not gender neutral as decribed since there isnt a word in existance, as stated, that express gender neutral.
And while I don't think it's 'asking' for sexism to publish your sex/gender, I also understand why some would think it does. "Asking" was the wrong word. More like "opening oneself to." One of the things I immediately loved about the text-based communication, back when it wasn't even the web, just local dial-in BBS networks, was that it eliminated the eyes from the equation. Sight, the sense that all of humanity uses to get a first impression of someone (which is the LEAST effective way to get an impression of a person) is conveniently removed online. This instantly allows for a deeper conversation, with no assumptions about a person's background, ethnicity, sex (again, I'm going by the idea that "he" is being used in its traditional English use, not as an assumption that everyone on the forums is male) , etc. It's understandable why some would think broadcasting that information might be detrimental to the internet as a communication tool. I don't think it's a valid reason to censor whether or not people choose to publish it though, and I don't think Sentry4 was saying that either. I think Sentry4 was just suggesting a reason why it perhaps should not be published. -
Quote:I already pointed that out. It's a remnant of language that never completely went away. To say it implies sexism is just silly, except when claiming the victim role for the purpose of making other people look bad.Originally Posted by Evil_Legacy
So sincey ou brought sexist into the equation, I think it's very sexist to assume that everyone that post on the forum is male unless stated otherwise. I think it's sexist to assume that a person is male just because they dont state their sex. As someone else also pointed out, there is not any text based gender neutral way of saying stuff so, then why dont people assume female every now and then or if it wasnt treuely slanted then it would be 50/50 about on guessing male or female but no, always assuemd male. That is what is truely sexist.
It's not "assuming" the person is male. It's just that until very recently, it could be used in any situation where the gender was not known.
You recommended She be used for the generic instead, but remember we're living in the "race to be the biggest victim" era of society, so that would just end up being reverse sexist, ESPECIALLY if it was done as a solution to the "assumed male" pronoun being sexist. An entirely new pronoun is needed, if anything. -
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