Funcom suffering a loss of investor confidence

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Yes, the game is doing poorly and stock prices are way down, but a lot of the rest of that infomation is misleading, innaccurate, or flat-out wrong. You may not want to use a source clearly biased towards WoW next time, eh?

The censorship thing is essentially untrue. The only posts I have ever seen locked usually got to the point where they were insulting and being derogatory toward the other players posting in the thread. Just go to the general forum now, not only are there posts complaining about the game, the MAJORITY of the posts are complaining about the game. If the moderators are supposed to be censoring, they are doing a piss-poor job.

And with the billing bug...If that could be proved to be intentional, EU regulators would have them shut down so fast it wouldn't be funny. It's just a bug...a very serious bug, but just a bug and they don't deserve to be vilianized for it.

They really messed up initially. Ignoring bugs, player concerns, etc. But from what I have seen, they have taken almost a complete 180 on that stance and are really doing a lot of good now. Unfortunately, they have probably acted too late, and the game is never going to get to where it should have been.

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They don't deserve to be villanized for billing people post-cancellation? Thats not a bug, its theft. (Well, technically its credit card fraud, but thats a fancy name for theft.)

If they can't get a billing system functioning correctly, they deserve to be thrown under the bus. Then again the game has so many other bugs, whats one more on the pile?

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To commit fraud, you have to intentionally mislead people with the purpose of causing harm to them, and it has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law since it would be a criminal case(at least in the US). This is not intentional, it is a bug/error with their billing system. Many other corporations across the world have had problems with accidential credit card billing. 99.9% of them never get charged with fraud. Why? Because it was accidential and they remedied the issue in a (somewhat) timely fashion.

Heck, it's not even the first MMO to have such problems. Tabula Rasa and Hellgate most recently, if I was ambitious I would look up more.

Yes, they messed up. They deserve to be ridiculed and criticized for their mistake. They do not deserve to be called a villian or thief for it (Unless, by some obscure chance it is discovered to be intentional, in which case I will recind my statements).

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