I'm not trying to be a dick here. How, precisely, do you propose they do so without violating their NDA insofar as NCSoft is concerned? We've had the Twitchtalks. We've had Zwill turning up in AP33 and posting on the Facebook page (and we saw how well that went for him).
You want them here posting here? To say what, exactly? Merely posting here could be deemed as violating the NDA (and it is a lead-pipe cinch someone from NCSoft is watching for exactly that). I am pretty damned sure that Melissa Bianco has been warned away from even emailing me, personally, privately; she hasn't even answered my "you doing OK" emails and that is not like her.
Look I completely understand and sympathize, but these are people with families to feed, and you are asking them to do something that would keep them from being able to do that...potentially, forever.
While, of course, you are right about the worth vs. the risk and I'm sure Heatstroke wouldn't ask that of any of them...
I do think there has to be some
ability of people (if they are currently
interested in saving the game) to talk with others that might help move our mutual goals forward.
While that can happen behind closed doors with people, there
is one aspect that makes this troubling... and that is, what if we legitimately
could pull together resources as a community and pool them with the Paragon Studios representatives?
I mean,
obviously, I am leaping to great hypothetical scenarios here, but it's just something that I think a lot of people in the community wish could be answered more transparently and I imagine that is where Heatstroke is coming from.
I imagine a lot of people were under the impression that, while negotiations are going on, okay, they're talking, let's wait it out and hope it goes well.
Now we get NCSoft's refusal and we're completely in the dark as to what the people on
our side of those talks think, feel, want, etc.
I know I'm basically preaching to the choir here, hehe, but it just seems like the motivating factor to this topic.
So, I'm just trying to help a little by pointing out our shared interest in getting such information.
While it has always been a longshot, a user/owned/partnership type scenario is a realistic option (if we had
any inkling as to the realities of asking prices and such and if we had some support from Paragon Studios people). I don't say that in a
calling out manner
at all (I hope it doesn't read that way). I just mean... if we can't ever hear anything or talk or combine with them, then that option is out the window. And I'd hate to think that whatever NDA NCSoft can put in place would be so restrictive to prevent such potential for our parts in this.
I'm curious to look up the Green Bay Packers ownership situation, as I had forgotten, until just the other day, that they are a team in the NFL that is actually publicly owned. Not sure if we could learn anything from how that came to be and all, but it could be interesting.
Did I just ramble or post a long coherent reply? Not sure!