Pok Nibin
Amarr
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Posted - 2011.09.01 05:20:00 -
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Edited by: Pok Nibin on 01/09/2011 05:24:33
It's pretty absurd to believe that among from 28 to 40 thousand players in a game with its prime currency being mistrust, with a major feature being isolation into small groups or as lone individuals with no discernible inroad into a small group that a player is responsible to know WHO these CANDIDATES ARE.
It's not been mentioned very often, often enough to be common knowledge, just how many players actually voted, and of that number what percentage actually voted for the winning CANDIDATES. I've heard eight percent voted, and four percent of the total of players actually elected the winners. To further believe these people represent US is ridiculous to the point of hilarity.
CCP is governed by "management by crises." Most well run organizations have "crisis management." You see the difference. This CSM joke was fomented as a result of a CCP employee (who was never fired) using his position to gain considerable advantage in the game. The CSM was a bone management tossed us to mollify us and give us the illusion we are somehow included in some oversight role. I mean. Had they controlled their staff - including firing the offender as an example to their remaining staff - a CSM would never have been considered.
Now we have it, we have a pseudo-aristocracy. The CSM members voted in were bloc-voted by their cronies to serve only their narrow ends. Forget about us puny "other" players. And so it was written, so it must be.
All MMOs use forum input to guide developer thinking for game growth and adjustment. CCP's actions for two years (or more) has turned THIS into another absurdity. Re: The forum managers (nuff said).
I didn't mean this to become a wall of text, but the management of CCP has allowed it to become a wild west show, it seems, while under the illusion they were being liberal. Their sudden corporate-think transformation is no more than strangling the dog back on the same leash with which they were far too generous. It's a pet peeve of mine - incompetent management.
This is the only game/place/forum where I get a feeling of prosecutorial oversight verging on paranoia, up to and including a two-minute wait to post...c'mon. (Their paranoia, not mine. Then, I guess someone is really after both of us by now.) You get the feeling you're doing something wrong just by logging in the game, or on this forum. The idea of "community" here is as big a joke as CCP's management scheme - all totally unnecessary, all easily avoided, all a quagmire it would take olympic effort from which to become freed.
When things go downhill they go pretty fast. Or, was it "Proper prior planning prevents poor performance...?" I forget.
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