To be fair, his strawberry tarts are out of this world.
Right, because there are no other threads about anything else anywhere to be found here at all?
Folks, I'm going to say this again. There are people here who want to see NCsoft boiled in oil. I personally don't like the company myself (although to be fair, shout-out to the GM team, they're awesome; I'm referring to the corporate offices in Korea). There are anti-NCsoft threads, and that's not going to stop in the foreseeable future. Consider yourself warned.
However, that is not the sole purpose of the Titan Network. In fact, in spite of my own personal feelings towards NCsoft, there is a thread dedicated specifically to former CoH players who are now playing Guild Wars 2. And yes, people have posted anti-NCsoft posts there. And yes, we have moderated them because it's disruptive. So please, spare me the lectures and comparisons to Orwell, and no matter how many ragequit posts I read, you're not going to make me feel one iota of guilt or convince me to start shutting down people who are peacefully expressing their anger and disappointment with NCsoft without disrupting others. Funny thing, to me it would be more Orwellian of me to start locking threads, deleting posts, and otherwise telling people what to think or say when they're not causing any harm or disruption to discussion, yet apparently that's what some people expect me to do.
It's really simple. If you don't agree with the anti-NCsoft crowd, then find other threads to read and post in. It's not like they're hard to find. This particular forum, "Save Paragon City!", is specifically dedicated to ideas and discussion around getting NCsoft to change their mind and release the game IP. That's not going to happen with people sitting around doing nothing, and all of our positive efforts have been rebuffed, so it's not unreasonable to expect many of the posts here to focus on how to negatively affect NCsoft to the point where they will let the IP go to stop the negative publicity. If you have better ideas, by all means, please post them! (Just be forewarned that "Just let it go..." is probably also not going to meet a warm reception in the "Save Paragon City!" forum.)
If you want to leave the Titan Network because of anti-NCsoft posts in this forum, then don't let the door hit you on the way out. I'm not saying that I want you to go, but I won't lose any sleep over it because to be brutally honest, if you come to this particular forum and you're offended by anti-NCsoft posts, that's your problem, not mine. Why aren't you contributing to pitching City of Heroes to other companies? Why aren't you participating in discussions about the comic medium in general? Why are you seeking other former CoH players to play other games with? Why aren't you contributing to a successor to City of Heroes? Why aren't you discussing the future of the Paragon Wiki now that CoH is shut down?
If instead of doing any of these or many other things that are topics of discussion you deliberately choose to come into threads that are about a topic that you know you're probably not going to enjoy reading or participating in, hey, I really don't have any issue with that, either. Spirited discussion and even civil arguments--including dissenting viewpoints--are welcome and encouraged. If you're under the impression that I'm going to shut down conversation because someone has a disagreement, though, I can tell you that's not going to happen. I'm sorry if that's the standard by which you just a community worth participating in, but that's not how we roll here. If we were so anti-NCsoft, why do you think we haven't moderated any of your posts?
The kind of funny thing is, I just had another ragequit a week ago for precisely the opposite reason; someone was all hurt and upset because we moderated their posts for using an offensive derogatory term. If I were more fragile, I'd give up, under the impression that I just can't win. As it is, though, I'm just arrogant enough to know when I'm right about something, and a few things I know I'm right about are that not everyone here is anti-NCsoft, there are plenty of discussions that have nothing to do with NCsoft at all, and accusations of being Orwellian aren't going to get very far when we moderate as little as we do.
Wel lsaid Tony, but not trying to flame or start anything, and I might have just should of just sent private PM, but since it's said, I have noticed that it's not that easy to avoid anti-NCSoft rants. Even in other threads, postings, if someone barely mentions NCSoft in a way that is not NC(insert insult or negative comment) some how anti-ncsoft comments pop up. It really dont bother me much as it's very much understood that some people have deep hatred of NCSoft and rightfully so, but on the other hand I understand how it can get tiring that a post or thread topic with any mention of NCSoft cant go three postings (may be exaggeration) with out someone inserting anti-ncsoft something. Or calling NCSoft something derogatory.
I know that hating NCSoft is not the sole purpose of Titan network, and the reason I like it here and see the great things people are doing, but from a glance, pick a topic, outside that modded GW2 thing, and somewhere there is someone again saying something negative about NCSoft. With some of those comments, which is allowed, if a person was to take out NCSoft, and insert say, Paragon Studios, they probably would be flamed, and or banned or modded. Yet, add insult and as long as NCSoft is the subject it's ok. Fair enough given their reputation but avoiding it isnt an easy endeavor. It's everywhere. A person that may not be familiar with Titan or just stopping through and seeing what is up, may take the sheer amount of hate NCsoft posts as a sign that Titan is there solely for spewing hate at and about NCsoft. What do I propose? I think a anti-NCSoft vent section would help. That way, people have a dedicated space to vent their frustration without it being all over the place and making it seems our entire efforts are directed at either trying to bring the demise to NCSoft, making ant-NCSoft artwork, and general hate towards NCSoft which can distract from the main goal. While on the other hand anyone who enters know exactly what they are getting into and make it easy for those that do not wish to join up arms against NCSoft and or do not have to feel the pressure to defend themselves when ever they mention NCSoft without an insult against those that are still hurting. But yeah, this thread in particular, with the title was fair warning for people that dont like to see a bunch of NCSoft hate.
Sorry for the ramble, havent had my Rockstar yet. I havent said this before but what made me stick around here and stick around COX community as long as I have was the diversity of the people. You had some expert gamers, you had beginning gamers, you had the nutcases, you have the level headed people, you had some people who put their sweat blood tears into the game you had some people who just played when they could. To me, that what made the community great. IN games like WoW, besides an outside few, everyone is about the samething in the same manner and same attitude and there are millions of them. Here we barely had 150,000 and had more diversity than any game I ever came across. That is one essence I hope we can keep in this community. But like anything there are ups, downs, ugly, and oogly. Emily Dickinson, for example. Most people never even knew of her works during her lifetime but after her death and many of her poems was found, then they realized the talent. Just people a person havent worn their talent on their sleeve at this given point doesnt mean they are absolutely worthless to the cause. The greatest game in the world can be created by the greatest game gurus in the universe but it's a waste without the players and sometimes even the most casual player can point out things and see things that a guru would miss and or because it's beneath their notice but important.
