Vuiko Tarasovich
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Posted - 2011.06.30 20:21:00 -
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Edited by: Vuiko Tarasovich on 30/06/2011 20:22:01
Originally by: Vin Hellsing
Originally by: GATORAN
Originally by: Morphisat Guys guys, the CSM thing is just a PR stunt. A press release will go to all gaming media saying that the discussions were fruitful.
CCP is commited to Incarna and the cash shop. This doesn't mean they'll start selling non-vanity items tomorrow, but they might at some point in the future.
Guys guys, the CSM thing is not a PR stunt. A press release will go to all gaming media saying that the discussions were fruitful.
CCP is not committed to Incarna and the cash shop. This means they won't start selling non-vanity items tomorrow, and never will at any point in the future.
see how easy that was?
I see it as a PR stunt until CCP actually starts doing things that they attribute to feedback from CSM. Which they haven't, related to this disaster.
Actions, not words, will define what happens to EVE.
This "Actions, not words" mantra that everyone seems to be chanting confuses me...
CCP's Actions in the last patch:
Release Captain's Quarters - visually pleasing but useless for gameplay, basically a visual confirmation of the deployment of the code for walking in stations, this will allow future actions in stations to be possible.
Agent Finder - people have wanted this for years. kudos.
Several visual effects upgrades - don't change the game, but look nice.
NeX - Allows players to use real life money to pay for overpriced vanity items. Take this as you will, but I don't think it's an evil thing - seems comparable to the eve store where you can buy overpriced vanity items in real life. Personally, i plan to collect 4 plex, break them, and buy a monocle (or one of those spiffy odin's eyes) out of spite for players who want lower prices. Note that this is not the real issue here, vanity items for real money is probably acceptable on the standards of most of the playerbase.
What CCP Has Said:
There will be no gold ammo - gold ammo is a term from world of tanks, which apparently half of nullsec plays, which means in game advantage purchased with real life money.
Damning internal newsletter debating putting gold ammo in the game - personally, I see no problem with CCP discussing gold ammo and using eve as a basis to talk about it. WoD and Dust (which WILL use a microtransaction payment method) don't exist yet, so everyone at CCP can probably best voice their opinions in an eve context. The issue is that talking about it in such a way goes against what CCP has promised in the past and breaks player trust. Sucks that this newsletter got out then, the employee who leaked it was probably fired.
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This break of player trust is the real issue here. If CCP wants to stop the forum ****storm then they should probably come out with a satisfactory explanation of what the newsletter's function in the company is and exactly why they were using eve as a base to debate microtransactions. "Never putting game changing items in nex" Is not an action that CCP can take because it is not an action, it is what they are doing right now, but they can never finish the action without ending eve. They can never say "Alright now we have completed never putting game changing items in nex". How will you know, if not through words, that there will never be gold ammo in nex? The only way CCP can solve this is through words and actions which back up those words.
so errm yeah.... actions over words mate, if you're going to keep spouting that like some hivemind forum zombie then at least realize that it puts CCP in a positive light.
PS: I am not unsubbing until the day that gold ammo hits NeX, though to be honest if i am rich enough in isk by then i might just buy a bunch of plex and pwn noobs anyway before i got bored of it.
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