I think it is an absolutely massively unsupported assumption to say they deleted anything, much less permanently. There are a million and one different ways they could make your COH account disappear from your game account list, and only one of those is deleting accounts and going through all of their tape backups and cleaning those out as well.
I think what I'm not getting here is, what part of what I have said is not tactful?
It wasn't just you, we had several people in a row complain at the beginning of this thread basically about how bad a game Guild Wars 2 is. You're welcome to hold that opinion, but responding to people concerned about manipulating the Amazon reviews for GW2 by saying that's it a crappy game and doesn't deserve good reviews anyway, which is the gist I got from the several comments overall, isn't helpful.
An honest question: What has being nice gotten us so far? I will solve that statement for $1000: N-O-T-H-I-N-G.
That's a fair question. I'd argue that potential benefit was just in altering probabilities of success, and we're at least closer than we would have been if we went quietly into the night, even if it never amounts to anything.
As long as we're asking that question, what does talking negatively about the gameplay of Guild Wars 2 get us? NCSoft corporate sure isn't going to care; they know perfectly well that there are lots of people in the world that don't want to play Guild Wars 2. Is there some other third party we're going to impress by saying mean things about Guild Wars 2 that I don't know about? Maybe Disney will come in and see how much you don't like Guild Wars 2 and that will be what convinces them to make a bid on CoH? It certainly isn't going to bring Guild Wars 2 players to our side, so I'd like to know who we are getting in exchange for alienating them.