NCSoft Stockwatch

[The Fifth Horseman]

I can say at less the Dead or Alive movie D.O.A was better then Van Dam's Street Fighter.
But really how hard is it to make a video game in to a movie Hollywood?!

With or without executive meddling turning the plot and characters inside out?

[Atlantea]

And another in the previews. Way to tarnish an otherwise decent and much-needed night out for me, NCsoft  >:(

Well then you'll be happy to hear about this posting at the Save City of Heroes FB page:

Sitting in movie theater and saw a guild wars 2 commercial.

Someone said out loud "Don't play it! They closed City of Heroes and treated the fans horribly!"

Applause erupted.

[Quinch]

Well then you'll be happy to hear about this posting at the Save City of Heroes FB page:

Seriously?

Seriously?

Please tell me seriously. It's almost too awesome too believe.

[Atlantea]

Seriously?

Seriously?

Please tell me seriously. It's almost too awesome too believe.

Well I wasn't the one there. But I assume the guy was telling the truth. Bunch of geeks in the audience apparently knew what was going on with the gaming world etc.

I wouldn't assume we've gone mainstream to non-geeks. But if we're that well-known in geek/gaming circles and if NCSoft has become that universally reviled.

Well then...

BTW - the guy clarified that Arenanet wasn't even mentioned or referenced in the advertisement, which to me seemed rather curious. I don't know if that's normal. But at minimum, it means that people were reacting to the NCSoft logo and not to Arenanet. That's good. Try not to hate on Anet. Just focus on NCSoft.

[Lucretia MacEvil]

Seriously?

Seriously?

Please tell me seriously. It's almost too awesome too believe.

I know!

Made my day!

BTW - the guy clarified that Arenanet wasn't even mentioned or referenced in the advertisement, which to me seemed rather curious. I don't know if that's normal. But at minimum, it means that people were reacting to the NCSoft logo and not to Arenanet. That's good. Try not to hate on Anet. Just focus on NCSoft.

*starwars* Stay on target... stay on target. */starwars*

[Phaetan]

Best damn quote of the movie - and possibly one of the top 5 villain quotes of all time:

Chun Li: You and your bullies were driven back by farmers with pitchforks! My father saved his village at the cost of his own life. You had him shot as you ran away! A hero... at a thousand paces.
Bison: I'm sorry. I don't remember any of it.
Chun Li: You don't remember?
Bison: For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.

Good times.  When Mako invaded Pinnacle, it was on a Tuesday, so yeah, we yelled a paraphrase of that at him.
Zwill seemed amused by that and our swimwear...

[corvus1970]

Well then you'll be happy to hear about this posting at the Save City of Heroes FB page:

Oooooh, superb burn! I hope its true. Nice :D

[srmalloy]

Bison: For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.

Rewrite it a little and it becomes more trenchantly appropriate:

Taek Jin Kim: For you, the day NCSoft shuttered your game was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Friday.

I'm also reminded of Thulsa Doom's line from Conan the Barbarian:

For who now is your father if it is not me? I am the well spring, from which you flow. When I am gone, you will have never been. What would your world be, without me?

NCSoft, by its actions, has made all of us its enemies. And while we may be willing to cease actively working to ensure that it regrets its actions, there is no way to avoid the fact that this is something that NCSoft have brought upon itself; we would not be dragging its face in the muck had it not chosen to stand aloof and treat the CoH playerbase like a fungible commodity.

[Kistulot]

fungible commodity.

I would not like to be made into fungi.

Otherwise, agreed?

[Perfidus]

I tweeted the Kim line, smralloy. Don't worry, if anyone asks, I won't take credit. Good stuff. :)

[Illusionss]

NCsoft is not Crey.  It's not a Nemesis front company.  It's a business with an eye on the bottom line, troubled stocks, and internal politics, separated from most of us by an ocean and a very different culture (business and otherwise).

They should have thought of that waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before making tens of thousands of new enemies, all on a whim.

I feel zero sympathy.

[srmalloy]

I would not like to be made into fungi.

Different origin -- 'fungible' comes from the same root as 'function'. What it means is something that is indistinguishably interchangeable. Money is fungible -- if I lend you a $10 bill, it doesn't matter whether you replay me with the same $10 bill, a different $10 bill, two $5 bills, a $5 bill and five $1 bills, or ten $1 bills -- it's all the same value. NCSoft treating us like a fungible commodity means that they see us as, in effect, faceless peons, a subset of an effectively endless supply. Why should they care about individual players? They lose one -- or ten, or ten thousand -- and there are plenty more where those came from who will step up give them money.

[Kistulot]

Different origin -- 'fungible' comes from the same root as 'function'. What it means . . .

Its called a puuuuun  :'(

There it goes, all my funniness is used up. Time to go on youtube and start making comedy videos, or start pitching my jokes to square enix for their localizations.  :gonk:

[Triplash]

Its called a puuuuun  :'(

There it goes, all my funniness is used up. Time to go on youtube and start making comedy videos, or start pitching my jokes to square enix for their localizations.  :gonk:

Hey, I thought it was funny. I was gonna be all like "I don't know, I'm told I can be a pretty fungi" :D

...but then I got distracted and forgot :-\

[corvus1970]

Now I want pizza with Mushrooms on it. Thanks a lot! ;)

[DJMoose]

They should have thought of that waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before making tens of thousands of new enemies, all on a whim.

I feel zero sympathy.

THIS

[Xieveral]

So... it looks like last week's boost was just a rock they hit on the way down.

[corvus1970]

Their stock tanking again, is it?

[NecrotechMaster]

yup, its -4% right now, -7000 won putting their shares back to about 158,000 won

[HarvesterOfEyes]

If the company's finances are structurally unsound the price will "tank" that is drop and stay relatively low for the long term. [ie Facebook]

Everything else is short-term fluctuation.