Curse

Minako Sawai · Apr 23, 2009, 10:34 PM // 22:34

What are you people talking about, NCSoft reported a net profit of over $30 million US on sales of just under $250 million US for 2008. That was down from the previous year, but the last quarter was up over the year before, thanks to Aion sales. And that is with no major releases aside from the beginning of Aion at the end of November.

With Aion going well in Korea and now China, they will be doing just fine this year.

Not to mention, with somewhere in the range of 6 million boxed copies of Guild Wars sold, ArenaNet has taken in probably close to $200 million US (gross sales, at the very least), figuring in standard percentage of the retail price of the various campaigns. And that doesn't count collector editions; let alone online sales, etc., which are almost pure profit.

Please, ArenaNet is NOT hurting for money, unless they spent it all without any kind of business plan and assuming NCSoft didn't use the profits to fund the Tabula Rasa disaster.

NCSoft has also publicly said they increased funding for their AAA games: Linage, GW, CoH/CoV and TR (whoops, they pulled the plug on TR). By NCSoft's own accounts, Tabula Rasa took $50 million down the hole from start to finish, which I believe actually started well before GW was released and TR didn't come out until, what 2007!!!

Aion will bring in huge profits if it continues to do as well as it has. GW2 is almost a sure bet to do very well. Which is why having only 2 or 3 GW1 Live staff and getting squeezed for storage that should have been added at no cost (along with an auction hall, IMO) all along is a bit annoying, to say the least. They basically abandoned GW1 and now want to milk the customers for more so they can work on a bigger and better GW2, never mind they took in enough money to already cover that, as well as supposedly having increased dev funds from NCSoft!

We won't go into the head of another NCSoft title mentioning that server storage costs isn't even an issue these days.... or the fact they are still selling a freaking 200,000 copies of GW each quarter!

The more I think about this the more pissed I get, so time to go do something else.

Minako Sawai · Apr 23, 2009, 11:29 PM // 23:29

Let me amend my rant above a bit, I have been having a really bad day.

I'm thankful that Linsey and crew are still working on GW and giving us neat new things at no extra cost. But ANet just got around to doing this after pretty much neglecting the game since the release of EotN. And with all the little additions (story books, etc.) more storage space was needed, especially for those of us that collect weapons and armor (or other stuff).

As the original concept was apparently that people would stop the PvE once they got to the PvP, so no need for more storage or an auction hall, that has turned out to be not true. After recently playing several MMO games with auction halls I now see how badly GW needs one.

The fact it would cost me $40 PER account (I have 7 accounts, although I would only have upgraded 5 most likely), that is $200, just for a little bit of extra storage. That hit a nerve, even though I am willing to spend a reasonable amount (NOT $200!) to do so, to feed my pack-rat habbit. The 5 to 20 extra free armor/weapon storage spaces will have to do, I guess.

So instead I'll just continue to enjoy GW, not collect stuff I would have, not play as much as I planned to and put more time and dollars into other games that are providing better value to me for the money spent.

White Noise · Apr 24, 2009, 12:36 AM // 00:36

Seven accounts.

And you're frustrated by what, exactly? That ANet has made your already expensive, debilitating addiction even more expensive?

Minako Sawai · Apr 24, 2009, 01:16 AM // 01:16

That it would cost me almost more to upgrade them than they all cost in the first place. But whatever. Looks like we are actually getting one pane for free without having to buy any/all 4 as I thought, so I'll completely withdraw my complaints! Thank you for the free pane and equipment pouch thingie Anet! I'll even buy some extra panes (one per freebie, so they'll be $5 each in effect).

Sarc · Apr 24, 2009, 01:17 AM // 01:17

What a miserable way to get extra storage. Yeah its free, but now I have to call up customer service because I can not remember my NCSoft account

Apollo Smile · Apr 24, 2009, 01:21 AM // 01:21

Completely free pane for both of my accounts. GG.

RedNova88 · Apr 24, 2009, 01:29 AM // 01:29

Why couldn't they just give everyone a free extra pane along with this update? So we could avoid going to the NCsoft store, which isn't loading btw. Page load error over and over for me. The first few pages loaded really slow, that's fine, but as soon as I click on "buy now" I sit and wait only to receive a timeout error.

I mean, I appreciate the free storage but... Why? Color me confused.

I pwnd U · Apr 24, 2009, 01:37 AM // 01:37

NcSoft is having their site swamped right now. Good luck trying to get to it, it's almost impossible due to the amount of people trying to get the extra pane.

sph0nz · Apr 24, 2009, 01:50 AM // 01:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sarc

What a miserable way to get extra storage. Yeah its free, but now I have to call up customer service because I can not remember my NCSoft account

I have the exact same problem.

Misa · Apr 24, 2009, 01:54 AM // 01:54

the ncsoft's site is down.... :T

Nukey · Apr 24, 2009, 01:56 AM // 01:56

Invalid Coupon Code. The Coupon Code you have entered is either not available on this product, or you have exceeded the maximum number of uses.

I haven't used it

I pwnd U · Apr 24, 2009, 01:56 AM // 01:56

Well the promotion runs through May 31st so if you don't get it tonight you can get it another time.

Enix · Apr 24, 2009, 02:11 AM // 02:11

How do you even tie your NCSoft account to your Guild Wars account? The instrucitons dont make sense.

I am logged in and it asks for my account name with 5 to 12 chars - what account name? I am already logged into NCSoft! My GW account name is longer than that and has spaces? HELP?!?! PM

Grj · Apr 24, 2009, 02:37 AM // 02:37

Why is there all this tie your account to ncsoft get the free storage pane bs?

Why isn't it like the way before why by it was automatically added to your account the the campains/expansions you had?

Big_Daddy · Apr 24, 2009, 03:38 AM // 03:38

Good god, that ncsoft site is slow as hell.

NeHoMaR · Apr 24, 2009, 03:56 AM // 03:56

Excuse me, BUT .. what exactly I should do to get that storage slot without paying? What about if someone already has the nsoft account merged with GW account?

EDIT: Forget it. I know how now, but the website is overloaded

Shadowfox1125 · Apr 24, 2009, 04:26 AM // 04:26

I guess I was lucky I sent a support issue a couple years ago since I found my PlayNC account name on the email they sent back. Now to get my password from them..

jokermcc · Apr 24, 2009, 05:31 AM // 05:31

Maybe I'm just a dope but how do u get the free storage tab?

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a-kyle · Apr 24, 2009, 05:34 AM // 05:34

for all those asking what your supose to do, go to the guildwars site, click on the guild wars 4th year aniversy image and follow the appropriate links to the instructions and READ!

Kalendraf · Apr 24, 2009, 05:37 AM // 05:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nukey

Invalid Coupon Code. The Coupon Code you have entered is either not available on this product, or you have exceeded the maximum number of uses.

I haven't used it

I encountered the exact same error. I've contacted their support so hopefully they will get it straightened out.