No, that was harsh. You're not a unicorn. It
was anecdotal though, you make it sound like every IT department in the world might be run by Azuria; and therefore, we should give up based on...yeah no. In this of all places, you can't expect people to mince words when you constantly rain on their parade. It doesn't matter if you're doing it with facts and figures or cats and memes. If someone writes a post saying how hard it was to lose City of Heroes, there you are with a chart or graph for them, like you're helping the blind to see. Don't take that as an attack. My best friend in the world has been doing this crap to me for years and I like him just fine. Doesn't mean I poop flowers every time he thinks he's right.
Look at this experiment. I wanted to know how slim our odds really are. I wanted to know how many of us are left and motivated to fund an advertising campaign, since we need to raise thousands of dollars for one. I decided to measure this in mouse clicks. How many clicks does it take for each individual to fund an advertising campaign? I don't know. They may have to click on their bank website a few times before clicking around on PayPal. They have to pull their credit card out of their wallet and type numbers in. They may have to get out of their chair if their wallet is sitting somewhere around their house. So it's an indirect measurement; but we can imagine that some typing and several clicks would be involved.
My experiment required two clicks. Maybe a few more for those without a Massively account.
I posted in several high-traffic communities/threads/channels for CoHers where they've ended up, and lured 24 participants in 24 hours. That's no flash mob. Just imagine what a mail-in campaign really looks like behind the scenes.
Here's another way to imagine our odds. Let's say I fly 24 people with me to NCSoft's headquarters and stand in front of their building for 24 hours, wearing Atlas Park 33 t-shirts and holding torches. (Unlit, of course--don't think we'd make it 24 hours otherwise.) Do you think they'd turn the servers back on or sell the game? We have 24 people, after all.
Yeah, me neither.
See, I'm not blind. Odds are that you'll get to tell all of us that you were right; but you'll never be able to convince people that City of Heroes wasn't worth fighting the odds for. It improved on many peoples lives. And if there was even a small chance of saving a game (or a book, or a TV show, or a device, or a person) like that, one shouldn't always listen to the guy whispering doubts in their ear. It's good to measure your chances when you're going up against the odds; lingering in doubt, not so much.