NCsoft Corporation to Sell Entire Shares of NC Interactive Inc.

[Kistulot]

https://i.imgur.com/GgRbT.gif

I agree with your curse completely.

To agree more completely, please allow me to know the source of this animation.

Its for curse science.

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[dwturducken]

I mentioned this to a friend and ex CoHer who works in the city of London, he said that there were some changes to capital gains tax (not sure where) coming in Jan 1 that might be relevant to this.

I believe we're calling it the "fiscal cliff" here in the US. We like to attach misleading and grandiose names to things.

[ukaserex]

The future is unknown and unknowable.
If I can take the statement at face value, ownership of CoH IP is still with NCSoft. But, since the new company owns all the online game stuff, they will essentially own the CoH IP.

However, sometimes black is gray. We'll just have to wait until Christmas to find out.

[Golden Girl]

I believe we're calling it the "fiscal cliff" here in the US. We like to attach misleading and grandiose names to things.

They do the same in Korea:

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=na.cityofheroes.com%2Fglobal%2Fincludes%2Fimages%2Ftemplate-items%2Fheadings%2Ffreedom.jpg

[dwturducken]

They do the same in Korea:

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=na.cityofheroes.com%2Fglobal%2Fincludes%2Fimages%2Ftemplate-items%2Fheadings%2Ffreedom.jpg

I wish I could say that I was mocking that. Well played. :)

[Perfidus]

Well played, Golden Girl.

[JaguarX]

man, they are really doing a lot of re-aligning(ms) for real.

[TonyV]

Okay, from the mods on the Aion forums:

Nyx has asked that in response to questions such as these that we post this official statement from NCSOFT if she is not available to post it herself.

"As part of NCSOFT's ongoing efforts to become a stronger global company, we are making adjustments to ensure that our western teams and games are more independent and more agile. These efforts have no effect on NCSOFT, ArenaNet or Carbine employees, nor will they have any effect on current titles or those in development. "

Citation?

Here's the post that was referred to.

[DrakeGrimm]

Whatever they're up to, it reeks of smokescreen and shady tactics. They're up to something.


Shout louder.

Here's some music to get you in the right mindset.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfmvLmr6bTU

[NecrotechMaster]

Whatever they're up to, it reeks of smokescreen and shady tactics. They're up to something.


Shout louder.

Here's some music to get you in the right mindset.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfmvLmr6bTU

i agree with this, if they just posted that this realignment WONT be affecting their other western market titles in any way, this brings back the question of why they shut coh down in the first place

theres definitely something on a  deeper level at work here

this is one of those times that some insider insight would be very useful lol

[Teutonic Rogue]

  The more I read about NCShady's business practices and decisions, the more I'm reminded of a certain quote:

"There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.
There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know."

Seriously, the mind just boggles :/

[TimtheEnchanter]

"As part of NCSOFT's ongoing efforts to become a stronger global company, we are making adjustments to ensure that our western teams and games are more independent and more agile. These efforts have no effect on NCSOFT, ArenaNet or Carbine employees, nor will they have any effect on current titles or those in development. "

If this is true it's such a slap in the face.

So in other words, right after killing PS for (supposedly) under-performing, everyone is now being given the kind of freedom that PS should've had the whole time.

[Perfidus]

Yes, basically that. And that's why all this is upsetting.

[Electric-Knight]

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=gifs.gifbin.com%2F082012%2F1343849002_mechanical_shell_game_player.gif

[Epelesker]

Don't know if anyone did already but I tipped the links in the OP to Massively, making sure to credit the OP for posting them here first.

[healix]

To agree more completely, please allow me to know the source of this animation.

Its for curse science.

>.>

<.<

I believe she is actually a lawyer from a Japanese movie...she is pointing at the accused and calling for justice.

[Epelesker]

I believe she is actually a lawyer from a Japanese movie...she is pointing at the accused and calling for justice.

It's not Gyakuten Saiban related, is it? (This being known in the West as the Ace Attorney series.)

[healix]

It very well may be!

[Lorraine1000]

Hello all i am new to the forums

I do play ncsoft game aion have done for the pass 3 years 2+ years under Ncsoft EU then the last part under NCsoft NA due to them selling Aion EU to gameforge (which is a bad bad company that has treated there players base and abused them since take over. i read a lot and since the take over by gameforge i have indeed been trying to get NCsoft to do something.


this is what Nyx had replyed on the NCsoft NA forums after this news hit yesterday(she works for NCsoft

Nyx has asked that in response to questions such as these that we post this official statement from NCSOFT if she is not available to post it herself.

"As part of NCSOFT's ongoing efforts to become a stronger global company, we are making adjustments to ensure that our western teams and games are more independent and more agile. These efforts have no effect on NCSOFT, ArenaNet or Carbine employees, nor will they have any effect on current titles or those in development. "

[Copper Cockroach]

So in other words, right after killing PS for (supposedly) under-performing, everyone is now being given the kind of freedom that PS should've had the whole time.

Yeah... which only helps reinforce my suspicion that the killing of PS/CoH had more to do with spite and malice than any sort of cold-blooded business decision.

It could help explain the peculiar abruptness of the shutdown (one week after a major powerset release, two weeks before the release of I24). This move must have been in the works for months, unless NCsoft thinks they can succeed by making up their business plans as they go along.

Whoever felt that it was absolutely necessary for CoH to cease to exist would've felt the need to act fast... City of Heroes, being their most Western-themed game (superheroes & supervillains battling over America's East Coast), would have been a perfect cornerstone title for a new division designed specifically to serve the Western market.

If the game-changing I24 had been allowed to come out, the attention from the gaming media (not to mention new & returning subscribers), combined with CoH's new status as the gold-star title of the new Western division, might have made it impossible to ever put a knife in its back.

I'm just sayin'!