Company Public Relations

[Victoria Victrix]

My guess would be this:

We don't want to pressure NCSoft directly so much that they get defensive.

However, their PR agency presumably has a lot of experience in handling them.  And frankly, I want their PR agency to get hysterical, and realize--as NCSoft apparently has not--that this is going to taint NCSoft games from now on among anything other than the power-gamer-play-for-a-month-PL-everything-and-move-on set. 

So my personal opinion would be...yes.  Start deluging the PR firm.

[Rae]

OK. I'm gonna collect as many of the 'Save' articles as I can, screenshots from the Twitter/FB campaigns, the gamespeopleplay comic, the front page of the petition and attach them to an email, as well as link them to Tim's video and I'll send it off to the PR company so they realise the interest the campaign has been given. The email I sent to NC Soft at the sunset email address (has ANYONE had a response, by the way?) focused mostly on the bad PR they were getting, so it should be easy enough to edit for this purpose.

I'll send it as one email it off to them today, so at least that base has been covered, but I don't piss them off so badly that they go into 'spin' mode and are unhelpful.

I know it's unlikely the PR company aren't aware of it, but you never know. And..well, I bet they get paid an arseload of money, and they should be doing /something/ to earn it. If the PR company hadn't picked up on this for some reason, then at least we'll know they know all about it, and will hopefully have kittens and talk to NC Soft, and maybe make them realise they are being considered 'toxic' by gamers.

If they do know about it already and they're just in their bunker, well..I guess nothing changes, except for the fact that we know for sure that their PR agency knows, but are also ignoring us, and their massive PR problem.

ETA: And done.