Re: Ideas to garner a return of CoX
arch_enemy wrote:
my best guess would be to organize a wide-scale boycott of all their other games or products which would last until they either give up and sell the game to someone that'll run it or run it themselves or release the source code so people can make their own servers for the game
arch_enemy wrote:
my best guess would be to organize a wide-scale boycott of all their other games or products which would last until they either give up and sell the game to someone that'll run it or run it themselves or release the source code so people can make their own servers for the game
Everyone reasonable says that. but just like said reasonable people they write it off as impossible. mostly it's a lack of faith in enough people to back them. Even right now there is a silent boycott of mainly former CoX players who express that they wont be playing any NCSoft games till CoX is released in some capacity.
The main reason it's a silent boycott and hasn't asked for other people to join is because the price of failure is that NCSoft will notice and write us off after that time as too small of a movement to care about.
There are a lot of players who play their other games who know nothing about standing up for a cause, and only know how to play limited content XP grinding, gearing league of legends style games and be bossed around from one point to another including being told to move on to an entirely new game. They also know that they spent money and time to play the game they are playing and don't give a fuck about the fate of other games so long as their game is running.
Convincing those people would be necessary or the boycott would be largely ineffective (as it has been).
not to say it's a bad idea, it's a good idea, but how can we accomplish it? I suppose we could leak a fake news article saying insider information confirms that NCSoft admits "all our games will be sunset at some point no matter player enthusiasm, money, friends or time spent"
Fill the article with notions that despite good turn out and profits in some of it's most popular titles such as the guild wars series and the lineage series, blade and soul and other key products; plans are in motion to irrevocably phase out those games and series with an abrupt shutdown sometime in the near future.
But fans aren't to be disheartened NCSoft knows what you like, although we regrettably will have to inform you of your games shut down and the IPs will never see the light of day again and the server images will be disposed of along with all accounts and your hard work and memories; NCSoft plans to make new games which are completely different because it believes it's fans don't like to linger in old cherished things of the past but instead move on to something harder, more costly and time consuming, something different, change is always better.
It's true we've shut down about 8 games now many of which had a strong following, one notable title was City of heroes whose players we care nothing about because they failed to stay customers and try our other games after we shut down their game, NCSoft has no remorse for the shut down of such dated titles nor does it believe that players should linger in fond old memories.
etc. etc.
page after page of generalizations claiming NCSoft is a souless "progressionist"
"the simple truth is that we at NCSoft have realized that by shutting down popular games with many hard core followers, if those players are good asian people, then we don't lose those players, but when given no option but to play something new, we renew those players spending spirit, especially if the game otherwise leaves non-paying players left far behind and unable to catch up without some level of spending. We even encourage this as a thought from the start of the betas of new titles for people to become as high level of a founder as they can so they can get ahead of the pack and experience the game before we regrettably must take it away when their spending tapers off to (while profitable) undesired amounts as we want our profits to grow, not fall.
Our goal is to give our players a thought that these video game adventures are a limited time offer and that yes eventually the adventure does end and often relatively soon, so spend while you can to see all the content before it's gone forever."
that will have people foaming at the mouth when their games are mentioned in it.
maybe add in a fake news that they intend to merge with blizzard entertainment after world of warcraft's recent failures, and eventually shut WoW down, calling it "Dated" "a relic" "redundant" "not aligned with our visions for the future".
NCSoft will be the subject of a mass boycott, refund demand and flame campaign. maybe even a few DoS attacks. just need to slap a picture of NCSoft's president and CEO edited to be giving a nazi salute with swastica waterprints in the background and we're golden.