augustgrace

Is Fanfest sponsored by CCP? Because if so, it seems like the company is liable if they don't take a harsh stance.

Honestly he should have been called out and banned on the spot.

"You can tell when things are going really well in the game," Zeschuk explains. "The amount of forum chatter drops. People don't go to forums. They just play."

Or since you have to have a sub to post, it could mean players are leaving in droves.

Just open the first page of general and you'll be greeted by a large number of threads complaining about population, endgame, poor performance, horrible customer service and more.

I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Aion. I think the game had potential to be great, but NcSoft neglected the western version for too long. I'll be playing TSW this summer, but I may come back to Aion in the mean time if they get things going.

Article incorrectly claims that they used the stolen code in Tera. 5 people were convicted of taking materials when they left NcSoft and served jail time. All stolen materials were destroyed and BH warned to not use any of those materials.

They would have to be insane at this point to have actually used direct art or code that they were warned not to use.

It should also be pointed out that while NcSoft is attempting to stop the game in NA, they don't appear to have a problem with the game running in Asia, or launching in EU this spring.

From the title I was expecting more than, "We're continuing to show up for work. More to come. Soon....."

They hurt themselves by announcing 2.0 and the possibility of wipes too soon. They should have gotten further along and worked out the details, before making any announcement.

They were found guilty of possessing material that belonged to NcSoft, but NcSoft was unable to establish that the material had been used.

The damages claim for taking the material and violating their non-competition agreement was overturned on appeal and is still pending. Once more, they were NOT convicted of using the material..

Too many people are jumping to the conclusion that BH/EM decided to commit suicide and ignore the court order.

I can't imagine that development cost 500 million. Perhaps if you add marketing, distribution, access to the Hero engine and the no doubt excessive money paid for the rights to use the IP, then you may be getting close.

Whatever they invested it was too much and spent poorly.

@Braiks

Only for the main quests.

VOs for side quests in Swtor, was money that should have been spent on content.

@(Unverified)
From StephenReid http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=12069505#edit12069505
"Our sales and marketing teams are working closely with retailers in the US (edit: plus Canada) and Europe to ensure that copies of Star Wars: The Old Republic will be delivered in time for launch day."

'Delivered in time' does mean that we are working to ensure retailers ship boxes in time for launch day. When retailers ship those boxes is down to those individual retailers, but the intention here is to ensure that for all of our launch territories, copies are delivered in time for launch day (December 20th).

Nothing can be guaranteed, but that is the intention.

Another post today by Reid http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=12065534#edit12065534
Hello all. Apologies for this taking a while, but I've updated the original post with more details on Origin.com pre-orders.

I do not have a definitive update yet regarding retailers for the US and Canada, although I have had multiple conversations with sales and marketing today. What I'm being told is that retailers are ready to ship copies of The Old Republic 'in good time' for launch day on December 20th.

I'm going to continue to work with our sales and marketing teams over the weekend, and if we have any more major updates, we'll post them on the new community blog as the Forums will be being overhauled.

Looks to me as though the problem is being addressed.

@tanooki equipped

I wasn't attacking the law but the protestors who were saying it was a civil rights violation.

On the other hand, how could this law possibly be enforced? Perhaps things are different in Korea, but in the US I don't think I've ever had an mmorpg ask my age other than to agree to the tos, but even then a kid could click yes anyways.

But what could be the real penalty even if we could find a way to enforce a law like this? Or for that matter what penalty can Korea realistically implement?

In the end the punishment would really end up on the parents head, which brings up back to this being a parenting issue and not a matter for the government.