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De, Please Please Do Not Do Business With Perfect World (Mega/hyper/ultrathread)


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This is how you support DE? This is how you support a game that you love? By saying it's over, game over, i will quit etc? Can you just wait for an official response from our beloved DE instead of raging and spamming in this way?

 

We are saying we Quit and it's Gameover if they DO go to PWE.

 

We are saying we don't want them to think we want this.

 

We are saying we don't want them to think this is a good idea by anymeans.

 

We are SAYING We Care about this game and the Devs, And do not want them to sell out to something as toxic as PWE.

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This sale isnt something new, as i believe DE is dealing with PWE for some time now. Something this big cannot happen over night and as usual people at DE kept us in the dark.

 

 

And yet again that is biting them in the &#!.

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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 needs it's own thread

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Remember this [DE]Steve...?

Steve is not the Owner, President, CEO, CFO, nor Director of Digital Extremes Ltd. He doesn't have a true say in any of this. Studio DE are artists for whom Corporate DE is patron.

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This sale isnt something new, as i believe DE is dealing with PWE for some time now. Something this big cannot happen over night and as usual people at DE kept us in the dark.

Make sense as we getting more and more "here, dont cry" content instead of great one.

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Exactly.  Now I hope other people will dig deeper and utilize their critical thinking skills.

 

Also since that last thread was deleted.

 

"We don't work for publishers anymore, we work for players." - [DE]Steve

 

And this deal quite possibly means that position has now changed.

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Oh, by the way everyone... the company expressing interest in buying shares isn't PWE. It's PW. 

 

PWE is the North-American branch. PW is the original Chinese company.

 

Which means they're probably buying some shares because PW is going to be the publisher for Warframe on the Chinese Xbox Ones, and they need to invest some money in order to make money.

 

So there's that.

 

[size=2]Seriously.[/size]

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