I was thiinking of a massive fan base spamming, like on twitter or something once a day we all spam to #NCSoft and #NCSoftgames "Sell=CoH" or something like that.
why would NCSoft care when they can just have lackies block us all? or just ignore us in the first place.
why?
cause the people they are advertising to will see our posts every day instead of NCSoft's remarks.
NCSoft might say "get back into action with Aion or Guildwars II today" and it gets pushed down followers pages with tons of "CoH=Sell"
I like it. Probably once a week or something, or just everyone do it whenever they feel like, with short bursts of "everyone do it at 8pm your local time next Thursday!" and not every single day all at once. That'd be a little silly, and people would get bored of doing it to boot.
Still, though, it's a good idea, I think. It's short, sweet, not all that obtrusive, and gets the point across without being complete jerks... wait, what?
Could work. Kind of extreme.
It's like PETA. They have a good cause they support but their methods are out of whack so regardless of their noble cause people remember them as nutjobs and the message of their cause is lost.
Plus that type of action just kind of reeks of desperation and disorganization.
Or rather like if a group came here spamming "get over it. it's just business." It wouldnt matter what they was saying it would just create animosity due to their spamming actions. I wouldnt like those types to do it to us thus I wouldnt do it to someone else.
also remember we are trying to convince businesses to listen to us and convince them they have a good potential buy and a good set of customers. We dont want to come off as potentially bad PR that will spam their websites if they make decisions that we dont like.
And it will just be another justification to NCSoft for rightfully ignoring us if we spam them. If we are trying to prove that NCSoft made a decision in a cold manner than we should try not to add justification for the silent treatment.
Also it shows they still hold sway over our emotions. They moved on but we havent. And even though we havent, we dont have to go to extremes to show we need and or needed them. We wont make them regret anything with spamming. It probably will help them sleep better by saying thank goodness we let those loonies go. They are showing their true colors now. Things on twitter get aroudn fast and last thing we need is our cause to crash now because we became known as a whiny bunch that cant handle the closing the game in a mature manner. No one would want to do business with us and it might even affect the future of the projects that are in the making.
I kinda agree with Lily - as tempting as it is, it's vital that we keep the moral high ground at all times.
I agree with the general consensus its better to play it cool and professional if we are going to get someone interested in buying CoH. After all whoever buys CoH gets us with it.
Minty or not, i agree that trying to be annoying wouldn't advance our cause in this case. Any prospective buyers would most likely view it as an example of what the fanbase they would be taking on is like.
You are all kidding, right? Please tell me you're all kidding me. Please. I'm begging here.
Because comparing a simple tweet, one that would be a focused effort to point something out that needs correcting, to the lunacy of PeTA or other extremist organization that does way way worse, and does it in the real world, and online...
Yeah. Not so much.
What the buyers would see is "Whoa. They still care. They still want it. They still care. Perhaps we can make it work where NCSoft didn't. Let's go see how we can get that done."
What the advertisers would see is "Whoa. That has a following. We *might* can use that..."
What NCSoft will see is "Oh, geez, these people. Again. They're like hound dogs... fine, sell it, get it out of PR department nighmare already." Or at least, one could hope.
But what that is NOT is rabid, neurotic, over the top fandom. It is the voice of the people, saying "We seriously want that back. You made a mistake, please correct it. Thank you."
And that is all.
I will leave with these two relevant things:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Want_of_a_Nailand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came... Both of which mean, go forth and tweet, people. Do it!
