Or to put in another way, most of the people working in Crey office buildings in Paragon City aren't evil.
Kistulot, that was extremely well-written and I entirely agree. It's one of the reasons why I regret that our community's investigations could never turn up exactly
who the individual minds were behind CoH's shutdown. A lot of people immediately sprung on the CEO and COO. But right before the closure announcement, Nexon had just bought almost $700 million in stock and become NCSoft's largest shareholder. The CEO himself on the other hand had just sold a big chunk of his stock. You can paint a few different pictures using these facts and your imagination--even one where the top management of the company may have been on Paragon's side against the shareholders. No one outside of that upper circle will ever know and that's why our PR backlash campaign felt so directionless and messy. Specific targets would have allowed us to investigate specific people, and it may have been possible to dig up dirt or generate enough bad press around those individuals to see resignations.
I have no doubt that having a villain would have made us appear more like heroes and less like vigilantes (in the gaming press I mean, who lumped us all together). Every time I've encouraged people to boycott every game by any studio under NCSoft, I've essentially been in support of collateral damage. I'm not going to lie to myself. This tactic is more Wyvern or Longbow, less Freedom Phalanx. Part of that makes me very uncomfortable, but like some others, I've done it anyway because "this is what we do".
Before I shut up, I'm going to embolden a golden opportunity in your post.
If we could do anything to get out the word that the SaveCoH movement really cares about the employees affected by crud like this, I would get behind it 110%.Golden opportunity here.
And there are members of this community who have all of the resources that it would take to do exactly that in a timely manner. And it would be the human thing to do.
Strategically, of course, it would also be a way to get our community back into the spotlight in a manner that suggests we're still here and fighting the good fight.
So Tony, if you see this, maybe we can do a donation drive and get it out there in the gaming press and South Korean Times? Would you like to do that?