Nikita Alterana
Risen Angels
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Posted - 2011.04.10 14:14:00 -
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Akita and Calathea are absolutely right on all accounts. CCP is being monumentally stupid and is throwing away everything they have built. If they don't step back from the edge of the cliff now then it won't matter if they don't jump off it, it won't matter if they plan on backing up later, because the cliff face is going to give way and everything is going to come crashing down.
I love eve, I have eve tattoos, I want to see eve continue for years and years and years. I want to be able to introduce my kids to this game. I want it to have the longevity and the vision and the expansiveness that made me love this game in the first place...but no. No, CCP would rather follow the stupid, stupid market trend data from other MMOs, most of which FAILED by the way, and push out crappy new content to try to get more people at the expense of those who stayed with them and supported them from the beginning.
Eve is not like other MMOs, EVE's community is different. EVE is different. We don't need shiny new features to keep us happy. We don't need new stuff to keep having fun. EVE has no max level. EVE has no top tier epic gear. We the players are capable of keeping ourselves busy without new things to play with. Fix the stuff that needs fixing. Take the time to iterate upon all the stuff you've introduced. Where are other T3s? Where are the fix to Factional Warfare? Where is the industrial expansion? Where is the blaster rebalance? Why hasn't the dead horse POS thread been applied yet?
Your game is dying on the vine while you try to expand your vineyard. Stop focusing on growth. Make a good game and it will grow. Watch Eve Never Fades, remember when that was what you committed to? When your trailers were proud to be made using actual gameplay? When you showed eve as it was, instead of some tarted up studio gimmick?
You don't need to expand the game in the way you are. Look at factional warfare. What did it add to the game? It was a big deal, and you put so much effort and marketing into it to try and get people interested in eve and provide a quick injection to your subscriber base. But that didn't work. Because you didn't tend to faction warfare and take care of it. I doubt you could fix it now if you tried. It is a dead feature. Incursions are going the same way. They are something that absolutely just didn't need to be in the game. They don't add to the game what the game needs. They clutter it. You're taking a beautiful idea, and covering it with clutter and unnecessary additions.
Here is something that needs to happen now. Every time a new expansion comes out. CCP needs to plan ahead to take care of the features they release, and monitor them, and iterate upon them, and build upon them. For years until people stop complaining about it and start asking for new features. If CCP can't commit to taking care of their existing features, then they shouldn't be adding more. This is like parenting 101, its not rocket surgery.
Turn back CCP, before its too late.
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