Mortania
Minmatar Kinetic Cartel Shadow of xXDEATHXx
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Posted - 2011.04.11 02:45:00 -
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Edited by: Mortania on 11/04/2011 02:45:22
Originally by: Zofran Edited by: Zofran on 10/04/2011 20:25:30 A few days ago some guy I know from working with game dev was talking about other Icelandic developers, some of which have financial interests in his company (which is a small, indy place... they are just backing). He's a pretty big CCP fanboy, so I give I'm a go with talking about how the mismanagement is driving them into the ground and... amazingly he actually agreed based on talking to one of the partners; now you're thinking "ok who cares".
Anyway, the person in question is generally referred to with a name starting with an 'H' and not including the "CCP" prefix and has been around forever. This person claimed that CCP was pretty much killing itself by making people like him work on the business aspects while the technical and game dev side was being overrun by business types or "game devs"(the ones that cant code), who have no clue at all and just want to do gimmicky bull**** to please investors. He wanted to realign to the early days where there was a more involved steering from the high-up technical types, but was struggling with the "how".
Just thought I'd put that out there - I'm sure he'd never confirm saying that, but I felt it nice to know that at least one of the oldguard had a clue. Trust me, dont trust me... I don't care.
Get rid of the bodies, stop hiring community tools and "yes-men" who are just going to continue this. Stop listening to all your commercially interested partnerships and start looking to do things fresh, Python was a great idea and made eve possible, all of your other infrastructure choices have been based on partnerships and money, lets stop screwing the consumer who is paying for that experience. Middleware is not the solution either. At the end of the day, we'd rather have a small company doing less grand expansions (who cares about Dust/Incarna when the core game is rotting), we want the quality and gameplay back - you don't need to be the big playa to do that.
At the end of the day, if you make that choice too late, after Dust fails and your investors run... you've lost the game son.
I remember saying something along these lines... in 2007! http://eve-search.com/thread/510134/page/2#36
Oh yeah, I even got a response and reply in directly with Oveur on the subject: http://eve-search.com/thread/510134/page/2#52
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