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RUMOR: City of Heroes & WildStar Closures - An Alternate Viewpoint from the Inside - MMORPG.com New
SBFord
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RUMOR: City of Heroes & WildStar Closures - An Alternate Viewpoint from the Inside - MMORPG.com News
An interesting RUMOR has been posted on Kotaku as a comment on last week's news that WildStar and Carbine Studios would be closing later this fall. A poster named exChua, ostensibly a former employee of both Paragon Studios and Carbine Studios, admits to creating a burner account in order to "correct the record here". What follows is a RUMORED alternative the closure of both companies and the games they made. We have reached out to NCSoft & Carbine for a statement about the RUMORS.
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So i can belive this, in fact it makes a bit to much sense.
This have been a good conversation
거북이는 목을 내밀 때 안 움직입니다
I've got the straight edge.
The problem with doing that though is if they post it as their real name they are essentially blackballing themselves from the entire industry. That's their career, right down the drain; because no company is going to hire a whistleblower. Otherwise, they run the risk of their own dirty laundry going up into the air.
If the reporter can verify that they are who they say they are, then that's all you need to know that it is a former employee; because no person should find themselves thrown out on their ass out of their career field just because people reading the article don't believe them.
Difference is we cant effect any others lives and livelihood ....This does ... And its dirty simple as that , as all anonymous filth is ..
Even if this was true, you fire the devs. You don't piss off the customers. This is like finding out your managers are extorting money from your bank and instead of just firing them, you shut the bank down and close its doors.
I question the sanity of anyone who would do this, which is why I question this as truth.
Game studios aren't banks though, and South Korea has an entirely different business culture than we do in the West. What exChua described makes a LOT more sense under that context than what we saw on the surface.
The statement made by exChua is highly suspect to me. In the years since the shutdown this is the first time I've heard anyone claim that NCsoft gave Paragon Studios money to begin work on CoH 2. Several years ago I heard a contradictory story. I heard that NCsoft wouldn't give PS any money to work on CoH 2 or any other game, which alludes to an intended future shutdown. With nothing else to do the Paragon devs worked on their own game in their spare time with hopes NCsoft would pick it up, and we know that didn't happen.
Now I've read some of the comments preceding mine so I understand about being blackballed in the industry, but I've also seen the lamestream media cite too many anonymous sources in their news stories and they almost never check to see how accurate or factual their information is. I refuse to believe anything from anonymous sources until it is backed up or confirmed by facts. If this exChua wants to be believed then let them come forward with their real identity so that their employment history can be confirmed. I'll take their claims a little more seriously then.
I've got a feevah, and the only prescription... is more cowbell.
Agree..i am so sick and tired of this "anonymous" sources being used for "truth" and "the real story" now-a-days.
So much BS. The slow death of any, and all, journalism.
If they used the money that was given for COH for something else that's flat out stealing. What always amuses me about the COH shutdown was it didn't seem to make since. Now it kind of does if this is true.