That's what the initial press release about our beloved game's closure said - "
In a realignment of company focus and publishing support, NCsoft has made the decision to close Paragon Studios."
As I was reading TonyV's "Response to NCSoft" thread, and his post about a change of tactics and emphasis on PR, it got me to thinking again about that initial press release statement, and how it might come back to haunt NCSoft...
There's a thread at the CoH forum about Fox News. Buried within it are some interesting perceptions of positive and negative PR, but alas the whole thread has degenerated into political mudslinging, so it's hard to pick through it. Nevertheless, with the idea of "a realignment of company focus" still in my head, I added a post...which has already started to become buried under more political mud
Anyway, the gist of what I said was that if the OP of that thread wanted to avoid any of the "gamer" stereotypes a media group like Fox may try to spin, they'd have to spin the story themselves first.
And the angle that occurred to me was a simple one :-
NCSoft want to replace this -
- with this -
As I said in my post there, I don't need to explain how Fox would probably react to the notion of closing a wholesome, family-friendly game about patriotic superheroes and replacing it with a game they'd probably regard as little more than softcore pornography...
I've captioned a couple of ingame graphic images to further emphasise the point :-
Needless to say, this...is negative PR
Even with only the quoted captions on, and the observations at the bottom (no pun intended...) removed from these images, the association remains. Because it's true - NCSoft
are closing one game and launching another in its place. All these pictures are doing is showing an example of the former contrasted with the latter.
Is that spin?
Well I really couldn't say - I'm an artist not a journalist