Guild Wars 2

These are really just a questions for ArenaNet, so be advised that I more than likely will not reply to other players unless they have relevant information regarding my questions.

I’ve recently started investing, and I have some money I wish to invest in companies like NCSoft. I’d buy some of ArenaNet if it were a public company, but to my knowledge it’s still a private company that has not had an IPO.

My questions are: If I were to buy shares of NCSoft, would it negatively affect my GW2 account in some way? Would I be shunned away by the devs as a ‘biased’ player because I would legally own a portion of their publisher? I don’t want to buy shares and then suddenly have my account banned because of the shares I owned. I’ve learned that one should only invest in things they are interested in or actually care about. I care about Guild Wars, so I want to invest in NCSoft as a shareholder.

Are any of you shareholders of NCSoft, by chance? If so, how has investing in NCSoft worked out for you so far?

you would be better off calling/emailing them

Since you are behind an account that should not be tied to your financial account they have no way of officially knowing who are investors.
Also unless you own a huge chunk of voting shares you have very little say in anything that any company does.

Even if for some reason your GW account would be tied to your financial account (which wouldn’t be, 2 seperate entities), there’s no reason you’d be punished for investing and supporting in the producers.

Wow, thanks for investing in us, here’s a ban on your gaming accounts. Doesn’t sound like good business does it?

NCsoFT Shares have literally gone over double since GW2 was released, I own some and it hasn’t negatively impacted me in any way.

No, people do not get punished if they own shares of something that they use. If I buy Google’s shares, I won’t get banned from their services. :P

Unless you have millions of dollars, they will not be interested.

I don’t have millions of dollars… yet. Thank you for the input

Look out, NCSoft, I will soon own a tiny percent of you! MUHAHAHAHA! :P

You need to have enough share to make a difference in the voting right for them to care about you.