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VegetableBasket

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I don't think it's that big of a deal to be honest. People are just overreacting. DE has done a great job of managing their self-published game and I'm sure they will continue to do so. 

 

As if they will continue to do that once they're owned by PWE, who notoriously forces the hands of devs and ruins games?

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DJ_Vauban

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oh god, i hope they dont merge in the end. I played champions online a while ago and after the merge with PW, they took all the devs from CO and had them work on neverwinter, end of the story was that CO was abandoned and left with old content while neverwinter was getting all the love.

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That link for the petition gives me this error every damn time.

500 Internal Server Error

If you are the administrator of this website, then please read this web application's log file and/or the web server's log file to find out what went wrong.

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I think I just died inside...Why would you take something your supporters love and feed it to PW? I feel like Disney just sold their rights to FOX.

It'd be the other way around provided it would even be allowed by the government.

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Anyone who has experience with this.  Is it possible to counter offer?  I imagine it would take an astronomical sum, but theoretically, is it possible to establish a player coalition(kickstarter) of stockholders with the intent of letting DE answer to the player base?  Many of us have already funded DE because Warframe is a game that we love, I would be willing to shell out a little more to make sure it stays that way.  

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It was in the midst of 5014 that Alad V, then a well-known electrobop beat mixer, made his hit single, Profit Numbs The Feeling, at the loss of his favorite online game, Warframe, which was shut down about two years after the developing company was acquired by Perfect World, also now defunct, along with its' properties.  The single, Alad has since said, was used to "express his feelings of sorrow and loss at the destruction (of) such a great game."  He later went on to say that, before acquirement by Perfect World, it was (sic)"pretty ****ing rad" and (sic)"the bee's knees."   

In honor of your superb story i give you the following........... Salad-V-DJ

 

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Brasten

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TL;DR: do not log in to Warframe for the time being, thank you.

 

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DE probably cannot stop PWE from buying it. But you can.

 

I think this is the crucial first point to start with. This isn't necessarily DE's fault and even if DE doesn't want it, they probably can't stop it. The shareholders decide DE's fate, and if PWE is paying them a lot of money, they are going to sell. They don't care about Warframe or its community, they only care about the capital gains they make on their shares in the case of a buy-out.

 

This means that we cannot focus our rage and anger at DE, we have to focus it at PWE.

 

PWE shops around for games based on a number of faceless metrics, such as logins per day, average session length, peak concurrent users, average revenue per user, etc. They are not buying DE because they think players will like it, and will not be dissuaded from their purchase if players complain. Words are worthless to PWE: metrics are all that matter.

 

Forum posts do not matter to PWE. Complaints do not matter to PWE. Petitions do not matter to PWE.

 

There is only one channel through which we can voice our displeasure about the PWE takeover, and that is metrics.

 

The only way Warframe players can send any kind of meaningful message to PWE to have them call off the deal is by causing a sufficiently significant change in operating metrics that would have to be reported to the potential buyer during the process of lawful disclosure during the MNA (mergers and acquisitions) process.

 

PWE will absolutely drop the deal for DE if Warframe activity metrics falter significantly.

 

This is a challenge between the power of the community to stand up for their game (by refusing to play it at all) and the apathy that PWE is banking on.

 

PWE probably expects a few people to protest or to quit, and if a few of us do then they go ahead and destroy this game.

 

This is the community's chance to prove that it can't be ignored. And I'm not talking about some symbolic 1-hour walkout or a 24-hour boycott. I'm talking about not playing at all, even if they release a massive content patch, until we are certain that PWE is out of the picture.

 

Everyone who logs in to Warframe, for whatever purpose, is currently supporting the PWE buy-out of DE. Period. If you want to keep the game PWE-free, do not log in. Clan leaders should log in, set their MOTD to a notification about not logging in, and log out again.

 

Stay on the forums, stay active and make yourselves heard here, but absolutely do not log in to the game. Show DE the empty desert they'll have if PWE buys them out and then you can all return to the lush oasis of Warframe once this 11th plague has blown over.

 

Done and done. I'm actually thinking of just Uninstalling the program until DE explains things or Perfect World backs out.

 

Go the extra mile, Uninstall.

 

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ANXHaruhi

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TL;DR: do not log in to Warframe for the time being, thank you.

 

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DE probably cannot stop PWE from buying it. But you can.

 

I think this is the crucial first point to start with. This isn't necessarily DE's fault and even if DE doesn't want it, they probably can't stop it. The shareholders decide DE's fate, and if PWE is paying them a lot of money, they are going to sell. They don't care about Warframe or its community, they only care about the capital gains they make on their shares in the case of a buy-out.

 

This means that we cannot focus our rage and anger at DE, we have to focus it at PWE.

 

PWE shops around for games based on a number of faceless metrics, such as logins per day, average session length, peak concurrent users, average revenue per user, etc. They are not buying DE because they think players will like it, and will not be dissuaded from their purchase if players complain. Words are worthless to PWE: metrics are all that matter.

 

Forum posts do not matter to PWE. Complaints do not matter to PWE. Petitions do not matter to PWE.

 

There is only one channel through which we can voice our displeasure about the PWE takeover, and that is metrics.

 

The only way Warframe players can send any kind of meaningful message to PWE to have them call off the deal is by causing a sufficiently significant change in operating metrics that would have to be reported to the potential buyer during the process of lawful disclosure during the MNA (mergers and acquisitions) process.

 

PWE will absolutely drop the deal for DE if Warframe activity metrics falter significantly.

 

This is a challenge between the power of the community to stand up for their game (by refusing to play it at all) and the apathy that PWE is banking on.

 

PWE probably expects a few people to protest or to quit, and if a few of us do then they go ahead and destroy this game.

 

This is the community's chance to prove that it can't be ignored. And I'm not talking about some symbolic 1-hour walkout or a 24-hour boycott. I'm talking about not playing at all, even if they release a massive content patch, until we are certain that PWE is out of the picture.

 

Everyone who logs in to Warframe, for whatever purpose, is currently supporting the PWE buy-out of DE. Period. If you want to keep the game PWE-free, do not log in. Clan leaders should log in, set their MOTD to a notification about not logging in, and log out again.

 

Stay on the forums, stay active and make yourselves heard here, but absolutely do not log in to the game. Show DE the empty desert they'll have if PWE buys them out and then you can all return to the lush oasis of Warframe once this 11th plague has blown over.

^^^This. Don't ever play Warframe until DE comes out and says We are not getting bought by PWE. Doesn't matter U14 or even if they add 5 updates at once. Screw their metrics.

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I think I just died inside...Why would you take something your supporters love and feed it to PW? I feel like Disney just sold their rights to FOX.

 

I feel like Lucas just sold his rights to Disney..... Star Wars ain't never gonna be right again.....

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