No, not yet. I imagine we'll get a post about it soon though.
A long time ago, in an MMO I shall not name, I was in a party and we were hunting through a desert zone. I was looking for a rather plain but unique (not raid- or brag-worthy) piece of gear. After a couple of hours wandering and fighting, the gear dropped, and another person in the party won it. I asked how much he would be willing to sell it for. He said to make him an offer. So I did. His reply was that if I was willing to pay that, he could get someone else to pay more.
So I do not think NCsoft even set foot at the negotiating table in good faith. They don't have to; they can simply sit on the franchise and not worry about it and let it be forgotten and deny it to someone else. Because it makes them more appealing to someone else. When the time comes to sell NCsoft, that will be amongst its assets. We certainly are making an effect on them, and I firmly believe this is just a PR stunt to get us to give up. (It's already started to succeed, as you can see with some posts here.) Because this has the potential to be a very bad black eye for them. And if nothing else, if they are holding out for more money for the IP, they may be sorely disappointed.
A coda to the above story, of perhaps caution: Said person put the item it the auction house, at roughly twice what I was willing to pay. I watched it, but did not bid, and as the hours whiled away, there were no bids for it, until finally the auction simply expired, unsold.
