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I like ArenaNet which is why I continue to play the GW franchise (both 1 and 2), but I refuse to buy anything else having to do with NCSoft, regardless of how good it looks. All I can think of is “what if they shut THAT down too?” Honestly I think ANet was wise enough to write something into their contracts to prevent that.
It’s absolutely disgusting what NCSoft did to CoH and they have lost a LOT of money for that.. money then, money now, and money in the future. To top that off, they are too stupid to realize this and they refuse to make it up.. which seals the deal on most of their future in the west.
Reading this-
The second is that while it was turning a profit, it wasn’t making as much per dollar of investment as more “classical” themed games. If investing $1 in game A gets you $2 back, but investing that $1 in game B gets you $3 back, it’s pretty easy to guess where your money is going to go.
Paragon had actually wanted to make a CoH2, but NCSoft shot down the idea. While Paragon was in talks to buy itself out and break free, NCSoft came in and shut them down one Friday, fairly abruptly too.
-makes me even MORE disgusted with NCSoft.. it still made them a profit and they decided to be kittenbags and shut it down anyway. If you ask me, it was a combination of spite (that Westerners didn’t flock to Aion) and an attempt to force Americans to play their games (lol). And THEN they wouldn’t even let Paragon out, they just shut them down.
My point is, I don’t want to get into a game just for NCSoft to have a temper tantrum and shut it down and my mindset isn’t unique, many people probably feel the same way.. and it’s hurting them financially. I just don’t trust them. I want to know that it’s not going to happen with GW2. It hasn’t happened yet with GW1 so that gives me hope, but I’m still paranoid.
However, I noted that Guild Wars is still running.. no content updates (as far as I know) but it’s not been shut down. Did ANet make sure that won’t happen?
The no content updates comment was in reference to Guild Wars (the original), not Guild Wars 2. And I don’t actually know if that is true. It seems that they still support it.
NCSoft has killed more MMOs than every other publisher combined. That said, they haven’t seemed to try to kill GW1 yet.
I’ll never trust NCSoft again after what they’ve pulled on not just CoH, but elsewhere as well (Looking at you, Tabula Rasa), though ArenaNet seems to have some leeway.
I could be wrong and they might decide ‘it doesn’t align with their (crosseyed, myopic, idiotic and incomprehensible) vision’ and go Full Idiot on it like they’ve done so many other things in the western market. Whether Anet can stop them or not, I don’t honestly know.
-applauds-
Guild Wars was my first real MMO, so of course I had to buy Guild Wars 2.. I’d only been waiting 5+ years. My issue is, I’m scared to play it. I’m scared to get into it. I don’t want to love a game (and I could really LOVE this game!) so NCSoft can just trash it like they CoH. I still love ANet but I do NOT trust NCSoft.
However, I noted that Guild Wars is still running.. no content updates (as far as I know) but it’s not been shut down. Did ANet make sure that won’t happen?
My friends and I were all CoH players.. we won’t touch anything having to do with NCSoft except the Guild Wars games.. can someone.. re-assure me? =/