No point in arguing. Trust in Funcom is gone.
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If youâre not willing to share, why even bring it up? This is worse than hearsay.
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It is worse than hearsay because youâre not saying anything. Just a vague allusion you came into some information that makes you sure that SWL is done.
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Imagine Microsoft selling Windows Vista at a discount today, while it has stopped support ages ago. Unethical? Hey, you canât blame the companyâs ethics because you have made assumptions on incomplete information.
Microsoft isnât doing anything wrong. New users can still install Windows Vista on a pc and itâll work. Lack of support doesnât change that.
This wouldâve been some really smart business from Microsoft. The boost in those Windows Vista sales will really drive the profit of Microsoft up sky high.
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My uncle works at Nintendo and told me theyâre porting SWL to Switch soon.
I have the text messages to prove it but I canât show them to you. 
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https://forums.funcom.com/t/social-guidelines-read-me/62
The Social Guidelines state that:
An accusation against another personâs or organizationâs integrity, business practices, etc. is only allowed if the accuser has sufficient evidence. This is to prevent doomsaying, panic, and misinformation.
You made an accusation against Funcom (you claim to have information that proves âweâre [meaning SWL by implication] done forâ) without sufficient evidence. I challenge you to provide such evidence.
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Then donât hide behind forum rules.
I donât expect you to trust me. Just like I wouldnât trust someone claiming to have information that is âout thereâ but failing to state where, who, or what.
Donât post stuff like that if youâre too chicken to back it up with evidence.
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Well Gz on actually making Halloween scary this yearâŠ
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If Microsoft decided to sell an unsupported product, labelled as unsupported, then yeah, there wouldnât be a problem with that.
However, given that a big part of their brand identity involves the ongoing support of their products, itâd be unlikely.
Funcom isnât selling an unsupported product. Unsupported and no announced further development are not the same thing. TSW is unsupported, and you can no longer buy new copies from official sources. So Iâm really not sure what point you think youâre making, but youâre not doing it well or clearly.
Youâve just contradicted yourself - how WILL you post what you know when weâre not going to see it from you? All youâre doing is trying to stir rumour without providing any kind of detail. So far youâve said that someone told you something about something and this proves that itâs all over. Just stop trying to cause drama.
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âOh I wonât post this thing I have proof of because itâll get removed by the biased moderatorsâ - why do you care if the moderators remove it? Why are you scared to get a virtual slap on the virtual wrist from a company if you think that company is bad and behaving unethically?
The least you could have done is post a shoddy photoshop of Nirvelle saying they abandoned the game because they hate the players and then when it gets removed, point at it as proof that your secret knowledge is real 
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So youâre deliberately posting about something off topic which the person who told you has specifically asked you not to post about, but you did anyway.
Think we may have found a good example of poor ethics!
Isnât the point of sensationalism meant to be that itâs sensational? Here Iâm losing interest very fast in a damp squib that was pretty spurious to begin with.
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I think youâll find the rest of us were discussing âBuisnessâ
Business is the correct spelling.
The damp squib to which I was referring is the spurious claim that evidence exists purporting to prove that Funcom have ceased work on SWL. We all have our doubts, but if you have proof, produce the body. Either provide the receipts or recant.
If I learned anything from Billy Madison itâs that the concept of âBusiness Ethicsâ is hard to put into words. I do know it has very little to do with actual morality, so intentionally misleading customers for profit is a time-honored business tradition. Even outright lying is generally considered okay, as long as you can gaslight long enough for the next product to distract the consumers.
As bad as Funcom have been with SWL, it doesnât come anywhere near the behavior of EA, Bethesda, or Blizzard. If shortsighted business decisions really were unethical, theyâd have been shut down several times over. And letâs not forget Hanlonâs razor. We can take comfort that Funcom werenât unethical or immoral in how theyâve conducted themselves. Theyâre really just incompetent.
I donât think we need some whistle-blower with third hand knowledge to let us all know that SWL isnât getting anymore significant updates. If Funcom werenât willing to put resources into developing the game back when it still had a significant playerbase, they certainly arenât going to now.
I also donât think itâs all that bad to still have monetization in SWL. If people are stupid enough to give them money at this point, then those people donât have a right to complain. And the rest of us canât really complain either, since itâs not our money theyâre giving away. Sure, it might encourage further shady business practices, but such is the state of gaming these days. Thereâs not really anything we can do about it.
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If MS would be selling retail Windows 7 pro today I would buy it. But no - if I want to upgrade computer memory I would need to suffer with Win10.
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Windows 10 isnât a bad OS. Itâs a massive improvement over 8 at least.
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As bad as Funcom have been with SWL, it doesnât come anywhere near the behavior of EA, Bethesda, or Blizzard.
While I agree with most of your post, I disagree that severity implies Funcomâs actions are less ethical. Itâs like saying stealing $100 isnât the same as stealing $100,000; or that manslaughter isnât as bad as murder. In the examples I noted, most justice systems will decide the actions are criminal, and mete out punishment based on severity (and usually intent).
If I learned anything from Billy Madison itâs that the concept of âBusiness Ethicsâ is hard to put into words.
Business ethics is in all likelihood a sub-section of corporate law, and I doubt anyone here, including myself, has intimate knowledge of it. I also doubt this is the first time in the history of man that ethical business behaviour has been brought up. Iâm certain if anyone was interested in the actual laws that define ethical vs. criminal business behaviours, you could look it up and have a starting point for an informed discussion.
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I donât think a person who learned business ethics from Adam Sandler is legally allowed to call other people stupid 
Whatâs truly stupid is everyone who thinks that someone buying aurum for sprint speeds (or whatever) because theyâre having fun in the game and want to run faster is somehow being ripped off because theyâre only getting aurum for sprint speeds (or whatever) and not a cast iron promise that the game will continue to receive patches and support for the next fifty years.
What exactly have Funcom stolen? Is it your heart? Itâs your heart, isnât it?
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