Mainpage slashdot!

[cforciea]

Good job whoever submitted the story.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/12/05/1844208/city-of-heroes-reaches-sunset-ncsoft-paying-the-price

[TonyV]

I may or may not have had something to do with that.

[corvus1970]

I won't repeat my image response here. I shall only say...

BOOYAH!

[JanessaVR]

This is - by far - my favorite comment so far there:

"They said that it's a strategic decision. No one said it was a good strategy."

Indeed... 

[Treees]

The comments are kinda...not so great, so it'd be nice for all of us to help with that issue x:

[V-Mink]

A fair warning: This is, after all, slashdot, where cynicism, jaded commentary, and the jaundiced eye are almost de rigueur.  Expect more than a few comments that could be interpreted as unicorn-like.  It's good that we slammed into Slashdot, but be aware the commentariat may not be terribly sympathetic.

[corvus1970]

Well, I handle slashdot the same way I handle yahoo news articles: I typically avoid the comments that follow to retain something resembling a tiny nugget of faith in humanity.

[TonyV]

A fair warning: This is, after all, slashdot, where cynicism, jaded commentary, and the jaundiced eye are almost de rigueur.  Expect more than a few comments that could be interpreted as unicorn-like.  It's good that we slammed into Slashdot, but be aware the commentariat may not be terribly sympathetic.

They're actually pretty good so far.  Only one or two that are outright negative, and several good replies to them.  Most are currently along the lines of, "Yeah, that's a shame...", and I'm okay with that.

[P51mus]

Well, I handle slashdot the same way I handle yahoo news articles: I typically avoid the comments that follow to retain something resembling a tiny nugget of faith in humanity.

I posted on slashdot for a little bit.  Got +1 to my status from a good comment.  Then I got -2 for telling someone a racist or sexist joke was in bad taste, and all of a sudden my posts defaulted to people not being able to see them without clicking.  Then I stopped looking at slashdot.

Still, nice to hear the story's made slashdot.

[NecrotechMaster]

i use slashdot as my home page when i first open my browser so i can do a quick scan to see what kind of news is about with the real world lol

[Osborn]

They're actually pretty good so far.  Only one or two that are outright negative, and several good replies to them.  Most are currently along the lines of, "Yeah, that's a shame...", and I'm okay with that.

Even if they weren't, I think it's assumed by the global internet community that comment sections on anything are cesspits and you only view them to view the ideas of those most or least opinionated in something. There's no middle ground, because those people only kinda opinionated are gonna be like "Eh, I got things to do".

[NecrotechMaster]

Even if they weren't, I think it's assumed by the global internet community that comment sections on anything are cesspits and you only view them to view the ideas of those most or least opinionated in something. There's no middle ground, because those people only kinda opinionated are gonna be like "Eh, I got things to do".

this is how i view it, however from an outside perspective a lot of comments means that this is a "hot topic" and thus would attract media attention (i dont know if they actually look and see what the comments are, or if they just see the # of total comments)

[Perfidus]

Live or die on this day. Live or die on this day.

[TimtheEnchanter]

As far as the comments are concerned, they look like a real pain to navigate.

[dwturducken]

I'm in the "There's no such thing as bad press" camp on this one. It's exposure, and it's a LOT of it! And, though there are fantastical equines and sub-bridge dwellers, Tony's right: the majority of the comments are at least sympathetic.

[Colette]

Well done... whoever... submitted this. The hits just keep coming.

[Yoru-hime]

It's very strange to see CoH in my Slashdot RSS feed. Strange and awesome. By Slashdot standards, the reception for it definitely isn't bad at all.

[Kistulot]

I used to read Slashdot every day, but I got sick of the negativity in the comments. Seeing us there is very awesome feeling

[Lucretia MacEvil]

I'm in the "There's no such thing as bad press" camp on this one. It's exposure, and it's a LOT of it! And, though there are fantastical equines and sub-bridge dwellers, Tony's right: the majority of the comments are at least sympathetic.

I agree that this is good exposure for us, and that the sympathetic comments prove that.

As for the saying "there's no such thing as bad press".... I thought our campaign to point out NCsoft's faults was helping to drive their stock down....

[dwturducken]

I agree that this is good exposure for us, and that the sympathetic comments prove that.

As for the saying "there's no such thing as bad press".... I thought our campaign to point out NCsoft's faults was helping to drive their stock down....

Curse you and your logic! 

[Victoria Victrix]

AND MMORPG.COM!!!!!
"The efforts of the City of Heroes players have been spreading throughout the Internet. Celebrities such as actor Sean Astin, actress Tara Platt, authors Neil Gaiman, Mercedes Lackey, John C. Wright, Laurell K. Hamilton, and web comic artist and illustrator John Kovalic"

[JWBullfrog]

And bleeding cool  http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/12/05/wednesday-runaround-the-scarcity-of-deadpool/
 
Yes, we're not quite top of the page but hey, who can argue with Deadpool?

[DrakeGrimm]

* DrakeGrimm smirks.

And they thought we'd go away after the closure. Poor deluded fools.

[Daimyoshi]

They shall agree with us or I shall arrange rubber hose beatings!

[JWBullfrog]

Actually, I'm kind of surprised how many pages are cross linking the slashdot post.
 
Another cool bit from our friends in Sweden.
 
http://www.gamecore.se/?tag=city-of-heroes

[Aggelakis]

i use slashdot as my home page when i first open my browser so i can do a quick scan to see what kind of news is about with the real world lol

I do that with Fark. That way I get weird shit and caturday in addition to my meatspace news.

[Perfidus]

Where's the link to the stuff on MMORPG? I don't see it on front page, am I stupid?

[dwturducken]

No one seems to be using the Thank the Media thread, anymore.

[Aggelakis]

So start throwing the links in there yourself. No one says someone else has to do it! :p


(((NOT a mod comment! just some silly to lighten the day)))

[dwturducken]

I've been throwing a few in, but the ones on tap, today, don't really match the significance of the ones that now have their own threads. I'm not worried about it if you aren't.

[Codewalker]

I do that with Fark. That way I get weird pancake and caturday in addition to my meatspace news.

[dwturducken]

The MMORPG.com thing comes and goes. It's tied to forum activity. It wasn't there one time I looked but was the next.

The responses have mostly what folks expected on slashdot.

[cforciea]

The crosslinking isn't surprising to me, for the same reason I was excited enough to make a Slashdot thread. Slashdot has a reader base much higher than any of the gaming outlets that we've hit on (3.7 million viewers a month according to wikipedia). It isn't a gaming publication, it is a popular tech publication.

This is not to say that game publications aren't still important, but Slashdot is significantly more mainstream and will get a lot more views from people who might play games but are not "gamers" in the sense that they'll read gaming publications.

I didn't mean to highjack the thank the media thread.

[Perfidus]

I like to think that we all understand at this point, to thank the media. However, from this point on, if it'll make things easier I have no problems taking it on whenever someone posts a seperate thread for the press we get. It's what, a few seconds of my time to take it to the Media thread and remind people?

Whenever we see these big deal postings, we're always going to get a bit excited. We want everyone to see it, so it's natural to want to post a new thread. Especially when it's things like Slashdot. Heck, even Tony did this.

[dwturducken]

I'm not complaining. It was meant more as a "kids these days" moment. The Korea Times, slashdot, and NYPost pieces deserve their own threads.

[Perfidus]

Understood! Now, at least. Before I misunderstood.

[Dr Shadow]

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/5439238/City-of-Heroes-Closure-Article-in-The-Korea-Times-MONEY-Section.html#5439238

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/371066/page/1

[Teutonic Rogue]

Live or die on this day. Live or die on this day.

*tapes bottles from the mini-bar to fingers, breaks them on a rock and faces off against the game-devouring alpha wolf that is NCSoft*

<.<

[Perfidus]

Ahahaha. If only we could all gang up and do that for real, huh?

[dwturducken]

OK, the second was the one I saw. The first is garnering a more positive response.

[Vasarto]

wait....over 40%?

When did this happen? Just yesterday it was only just under 7%.

[Aggelakis]

It has dropped 40% from where it was at/before the announcement (Aug 31).

[FatherXmas]

Well I see someone out there still confuses revenue with profit.

The last 12 months of CoH sales was roughly $10-11 million dollars.  Now lets see take 11 and divide by 4 and you get $2.75 million a quarter.  Now where have I heard that number before?

Unless of course you believe NCSoft has been cooking the books about the games sales revenues.