mvrck22
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Posted - 2011.07.08 12:55:00 -
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Originally by: Zagdul
This may be a stretch and I'm gonna get called every fanboy name in the book for this... but maybe CCP was looking out for the player's best interest all along?
Originally by: K'iran You expect us to pay 60 euro for some pixels, that don't do anything and will mostly look like CRAP in the current iteration of Incarna?
Are you ******ed?
No, they don't expect sh!t out of you.
You can chose to buy them or not.
They don't force you to, nor expect you to.
Honestly, it would be a good idea to not simply advocate, but to first research and then analyse before engaging in a discussion. I'm not calling you a fanboy, truth be told all of us who subscribe and continue to subscribe are fanboys. Because we love it, simple as that. Sure once upon a time long ago a lot of us were evangelists, which is something else, and which is something direly missing.
But that is a different debate really.
The simple thing is that this is not about money for EVE. It is by admission a learning curve, an experimental approach for future targets and objectives for EVE, and for other products. In part because one of those products is tied with EVE, in part because - as Hilmar indicated - CCP does not want to be left behind, so rather than innovate they replicate industry trends. That is understandable, but in the absence of clear definitions and in the presence of clear statements on continuity of these paths you should be able to understand that it can and does upset people.
It's the difference between the presentation, and the actual delivery. Piled up over time. Offset by statements from CCP such as "premium experience" which simply does not match the realities of many people's experiences. Does that mean they will quit, no, because there is no substitute and they love the dream of EVE because that is what they bought and share.
CCP is a business. Their interest is themselves. Nothing else. CCP employees, is a different thing than that. That has become clear very much so. And that is a good thing, both parts of it.
PLEX and AURUM are instruments of business intelligence for CCP for the product of EVE. That is nice, and good, as long as the foundations for approach and execution are validated not from a just statistical perspective, but more importantly from a behavioral perspective. And that is where a lot of people place questionmarks, in light of public statements and QEN's which neither take into account the behavioral perspective nor otherwise correct for it.
It's basically come to a point - something which I find incredibly unfortunate - that there is an incredibly strong trend among communities to simply not take CCP's word anymore, in any way or form. In immersive products you've got a few basic currencies as a business, two of which are belief and trust. That those have been compromised, I can understand, but I also find it sad.
CCP has engaged on a path of creating trends, rather than that historic and well rewarding path of enabling trends. The difference may seem subtle at first glance, but is quite significant in terms of internal debt risks, glitches in expectation management, segregation between user vs user group types, and so forth. More importantly, it locks CCP into a course which requires further and more resources. Progressive path.
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