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[Karl Streiger]

B0oN, on 30 January 2020 - 03:39 AM, said:

Ladies and gentlemen, prepare for the worst and remember who we are dealing with .

Well the challenge is to think about the worst possible, till this day previous to a "great" announcement I think I considered the worst and still "they" managed to get it even worse - well this is a form of reliability (something we said PGI doesn't have)

[B0oN]

Let me rephrase that real quick, dear Karl !

Prepare for the worst, WH40K exterminatus style ...

[Vellron2005]

I'd still like an official statement from PGI.. this cloak and fragger style way of conducting business in not good in terms of putting trust and money into the company..

A community manager being fired is no small matter.

A company like NGNG being cut is no small matter.

The community deserves to know what is going, on, no?

[Unnatural Growth]

Vellron2005, on 30 January 2020 - 04:06 AM, said:

I'd still like an official statement from PGI.. this cloak and fragger style way of conducting business in not good in terms of putting trust and money into the company..

A community manager being fired is no small matter.

A company like NGNG being cut is no small matter.

The community deserves to know what is going, on, no?

So basically, after all this time, you're asking PGI to suddenly STOP being PGI?

It isn't going to happen.

Just play when you want, as often as you want, and when PGI turns off the servers, it's...

"THANKS FOR THE FISH".

[Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie]

*le sigh*

[Karl Streiger]

B0oN, on 30 January 2020 - 03:47 AM, said:

Let me rephrase that real quick, dear Karl !

Prepare for the worst, WH40K exterminatus style ...

Of course, the chance that they earn money with either MW5 or MWO is nil - so the best option is to close the servers down and be done with.

[Kotzi]

Is there a sauce to the dropping of NGNG?

[Joshua McEvedy]

Kotzi, on 30 January 2020 - 05:51 AM, said:

Is there a sauce to the dropping of NGNG?

Reddit, confirmed by Phil.

https://www.reddit.c...ng_leaving_pgi/

https://www.reddit.c...tract_with_pgi/

[Kotzi]

Thank you very much, i guess my break will be even longer...

[martian]

Kotzi, on 30 January 2020 - 06:14 AM, said:

Thank you very much, i guess my break will be even longer...

Have you bought MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries?

[Burning2nd]

If you guys cared... you would be working to secure a server to transition the game to.. because once its over... your simply not going to get past the log in screen....

and you will never see your mechs again

So here's to you mr I spent thousands of dollars on a video game

[Kotzi]

martian, on 30 January 2020 - 06:43 AM, said:

Have you bought MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries?

No i have not.

[RickySpanish]

Vxheous, on 30 January 2020 - 02:29 AM, said:

She's gone. This was just posted by appogee in another thread:

I had no idea she looked so lovely. Poor Tina we did not deserve you.

[WrathOfDeadguy]

TBH, at this point I'll be surprised if we even get a day's warning before the servers go poof.

[METAL SEPARATOR]

WrathOfDeadguy, on 30 January 2020 - 09:28 AM, said:

TBH, at this point I'll be surprised if we even get a day's warning before the servers go poof.

plenty of people play the game, and spend money on it. it won't shut down.

[K O Z A K]

I honestly have no idea what NGNG did for the "community", I know one of the dudes ran a twitch stream where he played the game (same as a bunch of other people doing for free who don't get all their stuff for free from PGI), and he previewed new mechs and such, but I watched some of those and they weren't really honest analysis of the mechs, more just like an in depth ad for mech packs. I guess they had a podcast or something, but in reality how many people actually watched it? Given that mech packs are no longer being released I can see how PGI would feel there's no need to pay someone to basically run a twitch channel since the advertising services they previously provided are no longer needed.

Same with the community manager position, all I saw was a few posts on the forums and she did some moderation? That volunteer moderators do for free? And helped run the event once a year (that's no longer run). Seems like a nice person and all, but the work output hardly looks like a full time position.

The reality is that this game had a small target audience to begin with compared to other games and is now over 7 years old, it hasn't seen any real updates since....2017? We should just enjoy what we have while we still have it.

[METAL SEPARATOR]

I had to google NGNG...

[Matt Newman]

Hey all feel free to discus the changes here but please don't post Tina's information. Its borderline Doxing.

As a general Rule companies do not discuss reasons for ending contracts so don't expect an explanation.
I am still here making Events and Sales and moderation is being handled in part by Customer support.
For the Future plans for MWO that information would come from Russ directly.

[RickySpanish]

Matt Newman, on 30 January 2020 - 10:51 AM, said:

Hey all feel free to discus the changes here but please don't post Tina's information. Its borderline Doxing.

As a general Rule companies do not discuss reasons for ending contracts so don't expect an explanation.
I am still here making Events and Sales and moderation is being handled in part by Customer support.
For the Future plans for MWO that information would come from Russ directly.

Is Russ gonna give us an update any time soon? Could you ask him at the water cooler?

[martian]

Hazeclaw, on 30 January 2020 - 10:14 AM, said:

I honestly have no idea what NGNG did for the "community", I know one of the dudes ran a twitch stream where he played the game (same as a bunch of other people doing for free who don't get all their stuff for free from PGI), and he previewed new mechs and such, but I watched some of those and they weren't really honest analysis of the mechs, more just like an in depth ad for mech packs. I guess they had a podcast or something, but in reality how many people actually watched it? Given that mech packs are no longer being released I can see how PGI would feel there's no need to pay someone to basically run a twitch channel since the advertising services they previously provided are no longer needed.

This exactly.

I have never cared about NGNG and their supposed "community". I know vaguely that they had some Twitch streaming channel that I have never cared to watch.

Oh, just one thing. I remember how they pretended for a while that they are impartial, just before they admitted that they are in a very close relationship with PGI.

Hazeclaw, on 30 January 2020 - 10:14 AM, said:

Same with the community manager position, all I saw was a few posts on the forums and she did some moderation? That volunteer moderators do for free? And helped run the event once a year (that's no longer run). Seems like a nice person and all, but the work output hardly looks like a full time position.

This exactly.

The fans welcomed her when she took her office and and she interacted with the fans (for the first few weeks). After all, she was replacement for Niko Snow - if you were around at that time, I am sure that you remember that unfortunate PGI's community manager who managed to get PGI banned on Reddit on PGI's official channel.

Yeah, that guy who punished people on this forum who said something "nasty" about MWO and PGI on some completely different web pages or forums.

God, I loved that magnificent threadnought that had about 100-150 pages of ridiculing and hate all pointed on Niko Snow and PGI. And all in about one or two days ...

So the MWO players had really high hopes when Tina Benoit made her appearance. But she soon settled into a stereotype: Making a few routine announcements regarding patches and Mech packs, locking a few topics, etc.

The most funny are her last year's remarks about keeping MWO forums tidy and well organized ... and then you remember that December forum mess with MW5:Mercs topics appearing all over the place because nobody bothered with the creation of MW5 forum.