I'm honestly unsure what point you're trying to make here.
The whole point of bad press campaigns is to give them a PR nightmare, because a PR nightmare makes doing profitable business more difficult for the target.
Yes, I agree. I was saying a PR nightmare becomes not just 'free advertisement' because the people who hear these negative things
aren't going to buy. That's my whole point to the people who are saying "We should just continue to buy NCSoft products no matter what, we don't want to hurt their feelings!". If we plan on buying these products regardless of the PR nightmare, basically we're just giving the company free advertisement and incentive to do what they were going to do anyways.
It's not trying to salve anybody's feelings by making them buy GW2; that's foolish. In fact, the goal is, in part, to get people to hesitate before buying GW2 on the grounds that it could shut down entirely, just as suddenly.
Uh, yeah that's what I said. I said we shouldn't buy their games just to make them like us better. I was saying that refusing to buy was the point of bad PR. Somewhere along the line I think you've confused what I've said mostly for the opposite of what I said.
The best option is for NCSoft to sell the IP to CoH; we want to make that a viable, attractive option that will instantly turn around any bad press we are generating. If and when that happens, it is imperative that we not trumpet it as a victory "over" NCSoft, but as a triumphant alliance that is a win for everybody.
I agree, but until that point there's been a lot of sentiment that if we don't buy GW2 and invest in NCSoft as if nothing happened, that we'll make them frowny and they won't want to sell. But I feel that's the opposite, that if we buy with the same confidence we had before CoH went under, or if worse if we buy even faster than before then, that we're basically giving them no reason to think their current public relations is even bad.
Remember, asian culture is huge on Face. We want to make sure that, if they work with us (or at least the way we want), we reward them by saving and even enhancing their Face, preferably while gaining some of our own. It will make Titan Networks and all involved have more clout in the future in similar circumstances.
Yeah, and if presuming NCSoft changes its mind on the issue, I would be happy to stop my boycott of their products. And if that helps them 'save face', by all means, let them extol it as a victory or whatever over us, if that's what they have to do. I'll have the game I want, and they'll have the money or the loss of the negative PR they want, depending on how that goes down.
But there's a strong sentiment that we have to allow them to 'save face' even while or after they bury CoH, and I don't frankly get that. If their face is only savable in a situation where both CoH is buried AND they continue to get my money as tithes as if I'm obligated to give it to them, then frankly their face's price is too steep for my taste.
