EPTEDIT : But hey I could be wrong, I am just an extreme conspiracy theorist
... I hope that it is an april fools joke for the players ..WTF Eclypsia ?! - Page 6
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TelecoM
United States10686 Posts
EDIT : But hey I could be wrong, I am just an extreme conspiracy theorist ... I hope that it is an april fools joke for the players .. | ||
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NexUmbra
Scotland3776 Posts
On April 01 2012 02:50 SolHeiM wrote: This is the worst April Fool's joke ever, if it's an April Fool's joke. I once thought it would be a funny April Fool's joke to get a genuine HIV test, and change everything so that it says that I'm HIV positive and post it on my facebook wall because I thought it would be funny. Thankfully I thought twice and realized that the potential future negative aspects of claiming I have HIV when I do not severely outweighed anything positive that could come out of it. That is sort of the equivalent of what this is, because even if it was a joke, it's a joke that hurts Eclypsia more than it gains them anything. It doesn't display good humor and doesn't put their organization in a positive light what so ever. If this is a joke I would expect sponsors to pull out immediately. I wouldn't want my brand associated with an organization whose management thinks it's funny to announce to the world that they're a shit organization who won't reimburse players for flights and hotel, dodges attempted communication and potentially runs off with sponsor money. Well there is a famous phrase "bad publicity is good publicity" and because Eclypsia are not a well known team maybe they are doing this just to get publicity. I mean it would fucking so stupid but more stupid things have been done. | ||
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GoSuChicken
Germany1726 Posts
Sucks for you, foreign eSports could definitely need something like KeSPA... | ||
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SolHeiM
Sweden1264 Posts
On April 01 2012 03:11 NexUmbra wrote: Well there is a famous phrase "bad publicity is good publicity" and because Eclypsia are not a well known team maybe they are doing this just to get publicity. I mean it would fucking so stupid but more stupid things have been done. No. The famous phrase is, (and I'm paraphrasing), ~Any publicity is good publicity~ Bad publicity is the exact opposite of good, which is bad. This is not in any way good publicity. This only hurts their organization. | ||
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herbie
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FT.aCt)Sony
United States1048 Posts
On April 01 2012 03:11 GGzerG wrote: I am actually starting to believe this IS an april fools joke as Eclypsia seems so professional and SloG saying "lol wtf " in his post is kind of making me believe that this is a joke, an elaborate and poor sense of humor kind of joke, publicity stunt, I think the people saying this before are correct. EDIT : But hey I could be wrong, I am just an extreme conspiracy theorist ... I hope that it is an april fools joke for the players ..If it is and/or was a April Fools Joke, then that alone would denote how pathetic the administration truly is. Plus its been two weeks. April 1st wasn't two weeks ago. Flawed logic maybe? Any company willing to even potentially pull this as a April Fool's joke deserves to have the players directly leave, and if any contracts were made/signed/given, deserved to be dealt with in a legal matter for lost wages. | ||
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Faust852
Luxembourg4004 Posts
On April 01 2012 03:18 FT.aCt)Sony wrote: If it is and/or was a April Fools Joke, then that alone would denote how pathetic the administration truly is. Plus its been two weeks. April 1st wasn't two weeks ago. Flawed logic maybe? Any company willing to even potentially pull this as a April Fool's joke deserves to have the players directly leave, and if any contracts were made/signed/given, deserved to be dealt with in a legal matter for lost wages. And you are an idiot. Welmu and Dayshi could have lie about it to make it more realistic ? User was warned for this post | ||
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SolHeiM
Sweden1264 Posts
On April 01 2012 03:20 Faust852 wrote: And you are an idiot. Welmu and Dayshi could have lie about it to make it more realistic ? April Fool's jokes (and jokes in general) are supposed to be funny, and it should be obvious that it's a joke. In what way does this meet those criteria? And this only hurts their organization. | ||
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Faust852
Luxembourg4004 Posts
On April 01 2012 03:23 SolHeiM wrote: April Fool's jokes (and jokes in general) are supposed to be funny, and it should be obvious that it's a joke. In what way does this meet those criteria? And this only hurts their organization. We're talking about them. Publicity's always good, even if it's bad. | ||
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namste
Finland2292 Posts
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Bagi
Germany6799 Posts
Such a shame too, because EC looked like a really promising new team.  | ||
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HoMM
Estonia635 Posts
and the communication they have to Eclypsia is minimal, (= not an april fools joke by Eclypsia) otherwise there wouldnt even have been the need to post a thread on TL like this. And this was posted on 31 march on EU (= not april 1st) Please keep this thread constructive, such as trying to find out ways to contact Eclypsia's management or maybe to even to get an official statement from them. | ||
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Absurd Bunny
168 Posts
I think they trolled you. | ||
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Bagi
Germany6799 Posts
On April 01 2012 03:24 Faust852 wrote: We're talking about them. Publicity's always good, even if it's bad. Yes, making your team look like a bunch of incompetent scammers sure is good. Its not like this publicity stunt made the news either. We're just a handful of nerds writing on a message board about this whole thing, how would this increase awareness of EC? | ||
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SolHeiM
Sweden1264 Posts
On April 01 2012 03:24 Faust852 wrote: We're talking about them. Publicity's always good, even if it's bad. Bad publicity is not good. There becomes a point where the bad publicity is so bad that sponsors decide to pull out because they don't want their brand associated with the organization anymore. Look at what happened to orb and EG. People went apeshit over orb and complained to sponsors. It would've been bad publicity for EG to keep orb after what happened, and Alex understands that the bad publicity would end up hurting their organization more than it would gain them. | ||
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maartendq
Belgium3115 Posts
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
So yeah, I'm just going to wait and see what happens before I even start making any sort of remarks on what has been said. I will say this though, for all we know the players might be in on it. | ||
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NexUmbra
Scotland3776 Posts
On April 01 2012 03:16 SolHeiM wrote: No. The famous phrase is, (and I'm paraphrasing), ~Any publicity is good publicity~ Bad publicity is the exact opposite of good, which is bad. This is not in any way good publicity. This only hurts their organization. Good publicity = Good publicity Bad(any) publicity = Good publicity Hence any publicity = Good publicity... same thing said differently... Also you can't compare this to orb, soooooooooooooooooo different. | ||
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SolHeiM
Sweden1264 Posts
On April 01 2012 03:31 StarStruck wrote: Considering the website has a countdown for April 1. Something is going to happen. So yeah, I'm just going to wait and see what happens before I even start making any sort of remarks on what has been said. I will say this though, for all we know the players might be in on it. Even if all the players are in on it, along with management, I find it very difficult to imagine that no one in Eclypsia was blessed with the common sense to put their foot down and tell them that something like this will only hurt their organization. | ||
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SolHeiM
Sweden1264 Posts
On April 01 2012 03:34 NexUmbra wrote: Good publicity = Good publicity Bad(any) publicity = Good publicity Hence any publicity = Good publicity... same thing said differently... Also you can't compare this to orb, soooooooooooooooooo different. The orb situation blasted EG with so much bad publicity that they were forced to fire him. Can you explain that to me how it was good publicity for EG or orb? All forms of publicity are not created equal. There is a point of no return where bad publicity hurts the organization. It's a discussion on when publicity hurts organizations. It's not different at all, because in both cases it will end up hurting the organization. | ||
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