I suspect that we are being trolled; this smells of some of the more harmless shit out of /b/.

I disagree. The first posts were " So much /facepalm in this thread asking GOG to somehow sell an MMO that was shutdown...
There's a link in this thread to a cracked server. Be glad you still have that."

and....

"Ya know...there are times I feel kinda okay about people.
This isn't one of those times. And I have everyone who voted to thank for that."

Yes, some of them are kids, some created multiple accounts for voting and they react badly, but I wouldn't call our posts belonging to one of the best communities on the internet.

To qoute our user Kardwill: "Well, when you think you are mocked, you can easily take as personal attacks any kind of controversy".

Then let's agree we disagree. I don't see what the issue about the facepalm is. A bunch of misinformed kids barge in and ask for something and don't even read what the website is about. If you ask me, whoever wrote this was a bit too nice.

This one I'm fairly certain is in the latter part of the comment section where people started to take notice of the issue.

Well then, maybe some of the regular forum members thought their request was a mock towards the policy and current store offers of the website. This is similar to 100 people entering a McDonald's all screaming they want this week's KFC special. What would the current customers of the fast food think?

that might be an oxymoron in some parts of the world - like at that time of the morning the nightclubs kick out! ;)

As much as I want the game to be brought back, I do have a lot of other games I enjoy playing, so I'm not too upset over it. I wouldn't count on getting POTCO back if there are no MMOs on the site currently, but I guess I could have a little hope... even if it doesn't come back though, life must go on.

That sounds highly unrealistic... BUT FREAKING AWESOME!

Hell, I was trying to be nice at the time. -laughs-

It's also the "be glad" part. If I'll use this words in my reply to you I'm sure you'll find it offensive.

It's only 5 places above the first comment I quoted.

Those 100 people would bother the other customers because of the screaming. I'd agree with you if these guys had created lots of new threads on the forum like "POTCO is great, vote for it" and so on. But they only voted on 1 wislist and created 1 question topic. That's all.

You weren't nice :) You crushed their hope like you crush a bug under your shoe. You guys have told them the truth, but in a harsh way.
Imagine going to a hospital and a doctor saying to you : "Your friend (mother, father, son etc) is dead. Every people is on a borrowed time. They are born, live and die. Get over it." (it's true after all).

....and yes, some people consider their MMO more important than a relative :)

And my sister considers her car part of the family. Some people are just weird, and while that is fine, they shouldn't expect others to treat those things as valuable as they are to them. It's good to care about something, but one shouldn't act butthurt when others don't care about it as much.

I certainly won't sugarcoat things to try not to maybe hurt someone's feelings, at least not on something that I would consider generally unimportant or minor such as an MMO (or a car, or a computer...)

I said I was trying. Comparatively, it was. The comment itself was not.

Course, reading up on the subject and seeing that anyone with two working brain cells should have seen the writing on the wall considering that Disney hadn't done anything to update or otherwise improve the game in over a year probably didn't help to facilitate a more understanding position.

It was more along the lines of, "Wow. Did you all seriously not get it? The developers stopped giving a damn long ago, how could you not see that?"

Then, I looked at gameplay video to get a better glimpse of things.
The game looked like crap.

But, rather than implying that some people are kinda frigging dim, not to mention being enormous suckers for continuing to pay real money for a game with no ending that you ultimately have no control over, to people who'd already stopped caring, I said what I did.

Almost forgot....I actually was being nice in one way. I said that sometimes I felt okay about people, rather than saying really godsdamned rarely.
For me, that's progress. =)

Too much negative vegetal negation, I do compute not.

But I think we agree : in this case, being harsh was the way to go. I mean you have someone asking when POTCO iscoming to gog, then you have :
1) don't count on that
2) not really
3) where do you come from ?
4) not even in hell
5) very slim chance (< marked as the answer)

I consider that behaviour being mildly delusional : it's wanting to be told what one's want to hear. You have to be harsh in those cases or it ends up creating topics like 'what is the first character you will play once potco is released on gog ?'. Nobody waste time that way.

Don't talk as if you have any idea of how I would react. This, and the "be glad" part is a pure statement that there is still something for them out there. If they are dumbass enough to get offended by that, then their place is on some rage fest forum on the internet, not here. Not to mention "be glad" is a daily used statement that reinforces a counter argument to a positive outcome, so getting butt hurt over this is plain stupid.

Here's the thing, one wish on the wishlist with crap spam comments is more than enough. Their desire is for GOG to bring an MMO to the store, a game that basically has DRM. There's a plain conflict of interests here. They want something many people don't due to other potential effects. This, and it's really hard not to feel a bit ill when people follow a herder like sheep and don't even have the brain cells to inform themselves.

I like how many of them thought GOG would remake the thing. That certainly made those forum users who read the comments feel for their cause. /end sarcasm

If such a thread is created, we know who we will get to blame for it.

Now I feel really tempted to start it myself.