Alright.
Today, I have sent the 'firewall of silence' version as a press release to:
PCgamer.com, escapist magazine, rockpapershotgun, lorehound, MMOFallout, Starburst, eurogamer, egmnow, gamespy, blisteredthumbs, zam, insidemacgames, dealspwn, examiner.com, massively, wired, thesixthaxis, shacknews, mmorpg, mmobomb, segment next, incgames, videogamer, mcvuk, vg247, gamepolitics, kotaku, BBC click and The Guardian, gamingbus, chaoster and player attack. These are all the places I could find online that'd ever run stories about the closure of COH.
I sent a slightly (very slightly reworked) version: "South Korean games software giant NC Soft has made 80 people in Mountain View redundant, and is set to destroy a world with a population of Spain - but won't say why." to local papers that seemed to cover the Mountain View area of California, including the San Jose Mercury, and Mountain View Gazette.
I've also put it up on a couple of freebie press release distributions sites, as well as Reuters and UIP, who seem to sell news to just about everyone on the web. It's also been submitted to
www.nowpublic.com where it's waiting for approval for publication, because I've never tried to publish anything there before :-p
At this point, I think the job loss front might be the way forward for mainstream media, so if anyone can think of a suitable US news outlet or newspaper where I could forward it, please let me know who I should be sending it to. Ideally not something TOO big, where it'll probably be over looked, but big enough where exposure there is likely to get picked up by bigger papers.
I'm also going to send a copy to Fansy, since he seems to have some awesome media/webcomic contacts who could probably get this out to the wider 'net community.
If anyone has any contacts they could send it on to (*coughcoughdownixcough*), or a blog or..whatever..please, please, please plagerise the crap out of it and put it where ever the hell you want
I'm waiting on responses from other MMO publishers for article #2, on how MMO players basically have no rights at all :-p