NCSoft raided Paragon Studios to fund a new corporate HQ?

[Manga]

Take a look at this:

http://www.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.17173.com%2Fcontent%2F2013-01-08%2F20130108111552849.shtml

[Victoria Victrix]

They were supposedly sitting on a huge surplus of unspent cash.  I guess that is where it is going.

[Xieveral]

Because their current HQ wasn't frivolous enough, right?

Maybe the money "saved" by canning Paragon will go towards building the NC Dinos a fancy stadium.

Why do they even have a baseball team?

[JaguarX]

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Why do they even have a baseball team?

Bragging rights.

[FatherXmas]

Why do they even have a baseball team?

Why do companies in the US get their name on stadiums and college football bowl games?

Also they started the building plans in October 2010.

Edit: While looking for information on the new building I came across a tour of the current offices taken back in 2009.  The last image on this page makes me sad.

[Xieveral]

Edit: While looking for information on the new building I came across a tour of the current offices taken back in 2009.  The last image on this page makes me sad.

"Is this the tour I think it is?"

And it was  :gonk:

[eabrace]

I can think of a good place to relocate that Statesman statue, but it wouldn't get much light up in there. :)

[Tubbius]

Am I wrong in keeping the heads of NCSoft straight?  This article says the CEO is someone named Jinze Chen?  I thought it was some other guy?  Or do I have job titles mixed up?

Puzzled.  :(

[Aggelakis]

Am I wrong in keeping the heads of NCSoft straight?  This article says the CEO is someone named Jinze Chen?  I thought it was some other guy?  Or do I have job titles mixed up?

Puzzled.  :(

Seems to be a second name for Taek Jin Kim. Shows up mostly in Asian reports (alongside terrible, terrible grammar.)

[Electric-Knight]

Because their current HQ wasn't frivolous enough, right?

Maybe the money "saved" by canning Paragon will go towards building the NC Dinos a fancy stadium.

Why do they even have a baseball team?

New car, caviar, four star daydream
Think I'll buy me a football team

[TimtheEnchanter]

The NC Softball league!!!

...... *crickets chirp*

[Little Green Frog]

Am I wrong in keeping the heads of NCSoft straight?  This article says the CEO is someone named Jinze Chen?  I thought it was some other guy?  Or do I have job titles mixed up?

Puzzled.  :(

It is his Chinese name. Chinese alphabet is not phonetic, so unless it is decided to leave a foreign name in its original form (in this case it would be Korean Hangul), a translation is required. You are bound to find such translations in reports of Chinese origin.

Edited for precision.

[Electric-Knight]

Haha, this gave me a stupid idea and I think we should shoot a terrible, silly low budget movie about it...

We (CoH customers, former-employees and supporters) publicly challenge NCSoft to a baseball game (and they accept) where the stakes are for the City Of Heroes (game, database, license, IP, etc).

[TimtheEnchanter]

Haha, this gave me a stupid idea and I think we should shoot a terrible, silly low budget movie about it...

We (CoH customers, former-employees and supporters) publicly challenge NCSoft to a baseball game (and they accept) where the stakes are for the City Of Heroes (game, database, license, IP, etc).

If it was us against NCsoft employees, I'd say that'd be a fair match. Against their pro-league team? Uhh... who's providing the cybernetic enhancements for our players?

[FatherXmas]

Am I wrong in keeping the heads of NCSoft straight?  This article says the CEO is someone named Jinze Chen?  I thought it was some other guy?  Or do I have job titles mixed up?

Puzzled.  :(

Machine translation error from Korean to Chinese to English.  Korean characters are phonetic while Chinese characters are sometimes symbolic and sometimes multi-phonetic words.  Chinese and Japanese names in Kanji form are somewhat an adventure when it comes to pronouncing them because they are pronounced differently than how the individual Kanji are pronounced.  It's a nightmare.

"No no no, it's spelled, "Raymond Luxury Yacht," but it's pronounced, "Throat Warbler Mangrove." - Monty Python

In this case if the three Chinese characters used for the CEO's name in the story are individually translated (via Google) you get Kim Chak Sun.  Taking into account how you pronounce English spelled Chinese and name order, I can see how they got from Taek jin Kim into what a machine would translate into the name Jinze Chen when taken together.

Edit: Damn ninja frog.

[Little Green Frog]

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i1.minus.com%2FjbbXCRDK4631pY_e.jpg

[FatherXmas]

LOL

[Xieveral]

If it was us against NCsoft employees, I'd say that'd be a fair match.

You're expecting them to play a clean game???

[Victoria Victrix]

Makes me wonder if they don't plan to turn this into their game-churning cube-farm.  That way they have all their slave employees under one roof and under the direct eye of the bosses, rather than dealing with several studios separated geographically.  Kind of like a small-scale version of the Microsoft Campus.

[Little Green Frog]

Makes me wonder if they don't plan to turn this into their game-churning cube-farm.  That way they have all their slave employees under one roof and under the direct eye of the bosses, rather than dealing with several studios separated geographically.  Kind of like a small-scale version of the Microsoft Campus.

Yes! Construction of an office building is clearly a sign of great evil! Finally, we're on to them!