DRG197
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Posted - 2011.06.26 20:59:00 -
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Originally by: Lord Khelben Thank you for your post Zulu. And as others in the CSM have already mentioned, I am sure this weekend must have been an emotionally rough one for you as well as many others at CCP watching this train-wreck unfold. While I can certainly empathize with how difficult it must have been for you, the reality is that you made your bed and now you are lying in it. You reap what you sow.
For a while now, CCP has taken for granted the fierce dedication and loyalty of EVE pilots, and you made the grievous error of assuming that our loyalties and passions were for you. You are very wrong.
Our dedication and loyalty is for the universe we co-created with you.
This universe is as much our work as it is yours. This is why we feel so passionate about it, this is why we rage when we feel that our labor of love is threatened. I am absolutely certain you can completely understand our desire to protect what we love, even as some choose to abandon it while it remains a shadow of what we remember it to be; some would rather preserve the memory of it than watch it corrupt.
You should definitely feel proud that you've co-authored something so massive, so organic, so evolving, and so unique as EVE, but all of CCP would do well to remember, especially important decision makers like Hilmar, that EVE is only ever what it is now because it is a collaboration with us, your pilots, your customers, your co-creators of New Eden as we know it. After all, isn't that what EVE is all about: "The Universe, Unscripted"? You may have created the body in which New Eden exists, but we are the cells in that body, and we are fighting to protect what you are doing to it against your own better judgement. We are, in essence, doing what we can to save EVE and CCP from itself.
Trust has been broken over the course of many poor decisions made largely in part to a "rock-star" attitude CCP leadership really needs to shed, so you'll have to forgive us if we remain skeptical. That said, I am cautiously optimistic that maybe, just maybe, you've learned your lesson a little bit this time, will work toward positive change in how CCP communicates and collaborates with us, the co-authors and passionate participants of this sandbox universe you've kicked off. Just remember that this passion you've cultivated in us for EVE that has made CCP as successful as it is today can be just as destructive as it is creative when carelessly or arrogantly not taken care of.
Show the players some love and you won't be unhappy with the outcome.
I concur with this completely. CCP you really dropped the ball this time... |