OK, I said what I thought was my final word in another thread, but I'm going to break that statement.
ARE YOU GUYS KIDDING?!?!? A company decides they want to refocus THEIR own efforts and sunset a video game that was maybe profitable (no one here is taking overhead and taxes into account and anyone that claims to know for sure is lying), and people think THIS is a reason to go after government for intervention? With all the issues going on right now, THIS is a reason to try to contact the government, A VIDEO GAME??? Forget the wars being fought, the economy, the labor issues, the domestic violence, the corruption, as long as we get them to focus on what's important, COH.
Seriously, this is ridiculous. I'm a business owner in Texas. If I decided to close a part of my business down and refocus on something else, just how the hell is it the government's business to get involved (unless I'm doing something illegal)? You guys are making less sense on this than the occupy people were that didn't even know why they were protesting. I'm sorry but if you get the legislators / senators / congressmen here in Texas to pay attention to this then I want them all fired for ignoring the serious matters.
This is exactly what I was talking about too. If you want to make a difference in the world, do it. This ISN'T the world, it's an escape from the world, it's entertainment. It's not going to make us gamers look capable, it's going to make us look out of touch with reality if we ask everyone that should be paying attention to the real world to stop and pay attention to something that in the grand scheme of things is trivial. This is coming from a 8+ year vet of CoH, who has 4 kids that also play the game. Please don't go this route, as it's amatuerish at best and seriously makes us all look like asses. This is a business thing, not a political thing. Do you WANT to give the jackasses misleading the country more of a reason to not do their jobs?
Okay, I really dislike it when someone doesn't understand something but comes out ON THE ATTACK.
I'll just point out one giant mistake (and I am saying this sincerely to help you to understand, zero vitriol from me):
...THIS is a reason to try to contact the government, A VIDEO GAME???
No, it is not about a video game. It is about a company made of 80+ people that produced a successful, profitable product that is recognized within the industry for its quality and its innovations and has a healthy, extremely loyal paying customer-base made up of thousands of people that use it for a significant pastime.
Whether or not you agree with any significance within that scenario, at least you can correct that this is not just about some dumb VIDEO GAME???...
Paragon Studios is a
wonderful American company and it can absolutely pull in a profit with this product and their service.
All we are doing is creating public awareness about this extremely talented team and their untimely firing in order to draw attention to, and bolster support for, allowing them to continue via having the rights bought from NCSoft.
Yes, we are willing to apply public pressure onto NCSoft to
make sure that they give this profitable business venture a fair shot in the free market.
Those people's jobs, this product and the community surrounding it all deserve to continue if it can remain profitable and we're simply doing our job in helping this to happen.
Contacting government officials about this is
not some barge-in protest that is going to disrupt a single thing.
It is simply just giving them the opportunity to take interest in it or to not.
In my opinion, these people and this product are worth that.
