The risk is, if they're willing to go that far to prove they're right, they will drag all their other titles down with them.
Well then, that's THEIR fault, not ours.
And the observation that we would be able to pull the COH IP out of the wreckage applies to all the OTHER games they've killed as well!
*DING*
*/em LIGHTBULB!!!!*I wonder... I'm not sure if it's been mentioned before. But has anyone thought of contacting
Richard Garriott?.
The guy got 32 MILLION dollars from NCSoft over the whole Tabula Rasa debacle.
But he didn't get his GAME back.
I wonder if he'd be willing to join with our cause?
What level of involvement would be best for him? Would he be most useful as a vocal supporter of the cause who can provide a cautionary tale that dovetails with our own?
Would he be willing to provide FUNDING for efforts at Public Relations for our efforts? 32 Million dollars - surely he has at least half of that money after taxes? Assume he's got at least 5-10 million he can use towards interesting projects... like -
oh, say, gleefully putting a stick in the eye of the company that killed Tabula Rasa? Or putting enough money in the hands of people like us that we can have a bigger stick (bigger stick = HUGE advertisements in newspapers and gaming magazines in both America and Korea, or maybe enough money for those stock options? )
Assume one of our arguments in contacting him would be the possibility of getting Tabula Rasa back at some point as alluded to above? Or at the very least, in making himself look good by being a "White Knight" that makes sure what happened to T.R. doesn't happen again? Hey - the man's a wacky dude with a wacky size ego. Enlightened self-interest after all DOES make the world go around!
(In Bill Murray Voice)
"If we're wrong, nothing happens! We go to other games - peacefully, quietly. We'll enjoy it! But if we're *right*, and we *can* stop this thing... Richard... Lord British... you will have saved the characters and accounts of hundreds of thousands of paying customers...
(Yes, yes, I know that it would mostly be TonyV who got the ball rolling on this whole thing and no implied disrespect intended etc. Instead, think of the above as an example of the "appeal to ego" I was talking about. As well as combining humor with inspiration. ^_^ )