I always said we weren't going to hurt them immediately. And what with their shady juggling of finances and stocks and "creative accounting Enron style" they'll look good for even longer.
I thought the same thing about Bioware at the beginning of the year when the Mass Effect 3 ending fiasco happened. SO MANY people had pre-ordered that there was no way they were going to take ANY financial damage in the short run. By any "pure numbers" standings, Mass Effect 3 was a runaway smash hit.
But between the Ending controversy and the flop of SW:TOR (partially fueled, I believe, by many gamers abandoning both titles in disgust) I figured the place to look and see whether Bioware (and by extension, EA) would be hurt would be to see how good the pre-orders would be for their NEXT title. Let's see what happens when Dragon Age 3 comes out.
Similarly, NCSoft MADE their main profits on GW2 before the announcement of the closing of COH because of pre-orders and almost a weeks worth of sales beforehand.
We can't affect their actual profits right now. By any pure numbers standings, despite their stock tanking, they are in a good position.
By any pure numbers standards.
But what about reputation? What about intangibles? And how will that affect their NEXT game release? Will we have an affect on Boobs and Shame?
And what about NCSoft and Arenanet's bone-headed move as of the Lost Shores patch of completely doing a 180 and going back on their word that there would never be a gear grind in GW2? (Mind you - you can still play the game in totally casual mode while leveling up. But the end game now has gear grind.) I've been looking around on the review sites and holy CRAP there are a lot of pissed off Guild Wars fans! Generally the line being used most often is that GW2 was supposed to be different from other MMOs in it's genre, but now it's no different at all.
That's going to affect the future as well, I think.
And the steady posting of FACTS about NCSoft everywhere we can reach I believe will have an effect.
Just don't get discouraged because NCSoft is rolling in the dough NOW. It's all short term gain and they are STILL doing stupid things to jeopardize their bottom line.