topics of culture/race, religion and politics have always been very touchy topics.
I think some people are a little bit too zealous to group and or assign major culture significant on a buisness decision but I do not think it's far fetched IF all the facts and actual reasons behind it was more stated. With NCSoft, it's all guess work so it's just as likely to be about culture as it is about little aliens taking over the brains of people and is on a secrect mission to take over the planet starting with destroying COX. Who knows.
What happened to Paragon Studios I've seen happen to all types of buisnesses, including American buisnesses, from all types of industries, which to me personally, seems like it wasnt so muc has a culture clash as just a routine buisness decision (for better or worse). Parent company closes down a subsids./branch/independent "thing" that they so happen to own/departments/"insert various other names".
Some Americans like straight forward or are straight forward but really that is more of an old stereotype more than anything. If that was the case then you'd have a lot more people telling their bosses, how it really is and getting a raise for it. Usually in reality what happens very often is they end up fired, even if they was right. If it was true that all Americans like straight forward talk, then one, there would be no such thing as office politics as everyone would be free to speak their mind, two politicians wouldnt have to lie and such, there wouldnt be as much classified information, news wouldnt feel the need to have to put a spin or "spruce" up the facts a bit for ratings, Reality TV would not exist, and everyday activities like credit cards, car shopping/financing, banking and etc would be straight up "hey, you buy this car, you'll pay double in the long run" instead of the games that are played. Some people like straight forward talk and some people cant take it, whether they are American, Korean, Indian, Native American, Africa, European, Japanese, Austrailian, Brazilian, Columbian, some weird guy that have no idea what he is, and etc. It's more about the individual person. But some humans seem to want to have to group everything together. They date one German and had bad experience and they want to go around saying all German girls are bad. Or a Turkish company stop shipping a product that is popular in America, and someone wants to make the reason be it's because they are Muslim and hate America (even though not all Turkish are Muslims and not all Muslims, nor majority of them, hate Americans. But to that particular person, their view is reality and all Germans girls are crazy and all Turkish people hate Americans in their eyes.
But we are here for the same purpose and reason. COX is gone. Lets not do NCSoft job for them as the easiest way to defeat an enemy is to divide and conqour. Some people are doing a good job at it by making it seem as if the decision is wholly or mostly or significantly based on Korean culture. It may be or may not be, but just as people dont like to be judged and dont like people making assumptions about them without knowing the facts about them, people tend to take offense when a person does that to their culture or other cultures. We ask other people to feel our pain from losing a game and community yet, some here seem to cant see and say the same things that outsiders say about many of us for going with this cause; over sensative to being offended (as some people have stated being offended by NCSoft decision to kill the game and their follow up actions) yet a person is being over sensative when someone disses or make generalizations or tie NCSoft behavior which is mostly panned as negative here among us, as due to their culture? How can people here expect others to understand and feel our pain over a closed game when many cant even do the same when it comes to simple culture and are quick to say people are being over sensative? I've seen how many people reacted when people said that people that was mourning the loss was being over sensative and over reacting to a game that was closed and to the statements like "it's just a game."
Hopefully not too straight forward for some, but the main point is, if this community is going to be destroyed, let it be destroyed in battle, not self destruct over misunderstandings about culture. No one likes their entire culture, especially for people that take pride in their culture, to be put into a tiny box where it is assumed that everyone acts the same way thinks the same and etc. Hell, what we have here, about a few hundred people, and look at the different personalities, and views and as said with it's wrong to judge this community by the behavior of a few it's the same concept for culture. I see some people do not mean any harm and just trying to understand but some comes off as a a little borderline hatred for Korean culture, even though that may not be their intentions.
I've lived in Korea for a stint. Know how many Koreans talked about Kibun as being their sole motivation in life and rules they follow? None. Some believe in it some dont, some follow it some dont. Some talk about from time to time some never even mentioned it. Some eat with forks some with chopsticks, some wear Jordans, some where Gucci, some drive Benzes, some ride scooters, some do buisness and are rich with a Ferrari in the garage and live in a Penthouse, some are poor. Some eat traditional Korean food, some prefer McDonalds, Arby's and a good texas steak and fries. And like many stereotypes, there are always some that will fit the bill to the teeth but as usual, only very small percentage. If I was to judge by a few statements and apply that as the complete person behind the desk, they would live up to the stereotype of Americans, Americans-lazy, obnoxious, judgemental, closed minded, hate anything not American or the American way, and hate everyone that not American. Which I dont think applies to 99.9% of the american population but if I was to use the logic that is being used with NCSoft, then that stereotype above would make sense but it dont to me so I also dont see how NCSoft decision especially with the lack of information on the reason, unless they recently released more information from NCSoft that I just dont know about, makes sense to come to the conclusion that the decison is based off Korean culture.
