On the flip side of that, Apple stock, with Jobs back at the helm of the company, went from $10 to nearly $400 over ten years. Most companies aren't that tied to the public psyche, though. This thread is more for the gratification of those who want to see NC$oft fail, and there really isn't any other publicly available metric to use. Is it essentially meaningless? Absolutely. But people need to find hope and satisfaction in different ways. For some, it's watching a graph from one day to the next.
don't think I could've said it better.
To many, symbols and visuals matter the most, the appearance and hope that they are hurting and on the verge of bankruptcy when in reality, most long term investors (That I know of) don't care or even worry about little dips and usually just buy more at that point. They are looking at long term, 5 years and up.
And some companies stock look "healthy" then the company crash. A lot of people forget that GM been in bad shape for years before declaring bankruptcy and the media circus that followed, which then the stock went down the tube, but GM was already in the tube long prior.
Just about every company stock sheet looks like a seismometer located in a place that have constant earthquakes and volcanos.
But right now, since the stock is most visual thing and a symbol of wealth, people grab onto that and celebrate every little dip as a victory of "teaching them a lesson" for closing down the game.
The thread is titles stock watch, but truthfully, the real purpose is obvious. As you notice, many don't say a single word or post when the stock rises, but jump on with joy when it goes down. It's really "NCSOFT stock watch and hope it crash" thread. But I doubt it will crash anytime soon, probably to many dismay. It's just doing what Father Xmas explained it was doing. Yet, dont fret, they will have their chance to "stick it to the man" soon enough. But first they have to escape the power that NCSOFT still apparently hold over the emotions in the way that some seem to live breath think about NCSOFT 24/7, while NCSOFT probably haven't given so much as a thought probably since their last statement shortly after release. I doubt ncsoft counted on many angry players to go to their other games or give them money. Or they would be silly to think so. And of course they probably wont re-release COX even if they wanted to. If people mean what they say then it's guaranteed that it will make even less money, making it not even worth re-release in it's current form. Thus the ex-customers gave them no reason to even consider bringing it back.
Make the successors succeed, support it like nothing have been supported before in the history of games, and become a real threat in the form of competition that they created and take over the market. A tall order but that is probably the only way to "get back" at NCSOFT in way that is beyond hollow words and being angry 24/7 for the rest of the life. Because quite frankly, I don't think NCSOFT from their actions gives a crap about some people being angry and not giving $15 a month. Their prerogative. As long as people keep NCSOFT on the mind all day every day and angry and stuff and add to their traffic numbers on their sites NCSOFT is really winning. Ads and sponsors don't look at comments, they look at traffic
Want to win? Victory is already waiting people just have to claim it. We have games being built, we gained knowledge about the sledge of the corporate gaming world and how it can burn people. Hopefully not taking for granted the people that many used to flame in the past when they tried to warn us about the way corporations in the gaming world work and the risks. And we'll have a home where no one can take away with absolutely no control that NCSOFT have. We already won, it's just that some people don't seem to realize it yet.
