For those of you who aren't in the Boycott NC Soft facebook group, you might have missed this post from our beloved leader, TonyV.
"Hey all, quick announcement: I'm incredibly proud of the success of NCsoft, but unfortunately, the continued support of the company no longer fits within my long term goals for gaming. All NCsoft titles are affected by this decision, including the new titles coming out. I will begin the NCsoft sun setting process immediately with the goal to officially stop playing all titles from the company on November 30, 2012."
I thought one thing we maybe could do is 'resign' en masse from NC Soft, maybe posting something similarly formal on their Facebook wall, or post 'open resignation letters' in blogs using Ammon's writing for the web SEO technique on a date to be agreed, maybe parodying their 'exhausted all options' announcement to us.
Although I'm reasonably sure they'd simply delete the posts on FB the idea of a wall full of 'I resign' posts makes me giggle mightily, and while they can delete posts form their walls, once stuff has gone up on blogs and personal websites or forums, there's nothing they could do to remove the posts.
At about 2.30am this morning, this seemed like the best idea ever. Let me know if you agree, or if I'm just sleep deprived? :)
I had a similar thought this morning while driving the kids to school -- I was thinking of maybe using Tony V's original statement as a petition. Could we get a few thousand signatures and send the link to NCSoft?
Don't forget to add: Don't dwell on the "how" or the "why"...
I think it's a great idea. At this point I'll do pretty much anything to irritate NCSoft.
"I'm certain I won't come to regret this decision..."
OMG This is a great idea!
I did "exhaust all options" before deciding to part from the NCSoft "family".
I feel like this could actually be used in their favor somehow. Its too easy to mis-translate this type of sarcasm and parody. We'd have to use caution.
Quote from: rae on November 01, 2012, 01:09:11 PM
"I'm certain I won't come to regret this decision..."
*love*
Wow. That's just full of sarcastic win right there :)
Wow... sarcasm and satire and snark as sharp as a blade! I LOVE it!
Turn their own corporate bullshit speak back on them! Show it for the absurdity that it is!
I think Jonathan Swift himself would be proud!
Wait till Nov 29th. That way, when they (NcSoftCore) takes this the way it sounds, (We quit!) we only lose a day off of the real end of game, if they mass delete our accounts as an overreaction.
With what they've done so far, and with how well they've shown they understand us, I would *expect* them to go "Oh Ok." and start deleting accounts as a reaction/overreaction.
Alternately, because we are doing it that close *to* the EOG, don't give them *time* to react and delete accounts.
And I would humbly suggest that if we *are* going to do this, do it *en masse*, as in time it for a specific point (12pm Nov 30th, adjusted for time zones?) and spam their email with our resignation letters, all at once, to make the effect more hard hitting. By the time they sort it out, the game's ended, and they can't punish us for sending a "Hurtful" email.
Again, I recommend doing this near/at the EOG time period, so we don't lose any appreciable amount of game time, and *expect* them to pull the plug on the accounts, *or even the game*, as a retaliation.
2cp. ;[
I was thinking to using facebook and an open letter on a blog rather than by emailing them.
I'd like to end my relationship with Nc soft sarcastically and politely and mildly inconveniently, rather than by crashing their servers and majorly disrupting them.
But, yes. Happy to wait, if we get the go ahead. Don't want to get people kicked out at this stage of the game.
I would definitely go for this, or something similar. ;D
Love this idea. We need to tell them to "cherish the happy memories they had with [our money]".
Quote from: emu265 on November 01, 2012, 07:12:56 PM
Love this idea. We need to tell them to "cherish the happy memories they had with [our money]".
No, no. With "a respected company image."
I suggest resigning the Amazon reviews of their games.
I actually think the blog idea would have a deeper impact, though definitely copy and paste it to the FB page. Blogs with links, as has been discussed in another thread (or two), have the added bonus of factoring into Google search metrics in ways that simple Facebook posts will not.
Also, mine's going to be a break up letter. ;D
Could anyone edit this video to have the one exiled as NCSoft?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYJmFOxNew0
or maybe this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c2etjMl3WM&feature=related
This is exactly how I feel about NCSoft.