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Miilla
Minmatar Hulkageddon Orphanage
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:13:00 -
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Originally by: Eladaris
Originally by: Hyperforce99 I'm honestly still wondering why there has been no proper response from CCP about this. They must be either scrambling to meet up and decide which direction to go from here. Or they are simply ignoring it (which would be the worst thing they could do).
I guess i'll see in the morning.
What response could there be? It's already been fairly solidly confirmed that it's not a fake. And since the lowest of low CCP peon's could have popped in at page 7 and said "Hey, I've got that issue of Fearless right in front of me, that's a total scam". and stopped this 70+ pages and a thousand cancelled accounts early.
This is the future vision CCP hasn't been willing to show the player base. Last I checked companies don't produce insider newspapers that AREN'T 100% in line with the company future vision.
Personally having SEEN this issue, I'd really love to know what some of the earlier ones looked like. Wonder how many times the former CSM members had to put the NDA blindfolds on when discussing the 'future' of Eve.
We should get some CSM members that can read braille for all these blindfolds they wear while reading those newsletters in their meetings.
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Maximus Trollus
Amarr The Village Idiots
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:13:00 -
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Originally by: Miilla Edited by: Miilla on 23/06/2011 23:10:37
Everytime I open my character WALLET in Eve now, I just get confirmation of the stupid decisions CCP makes.
FFS what idiot thinks putting the balance on the RIGHT side is a good idea?
My market window covers the damn balance now. (PS: you can keep the "highlighted" AUR balance on the right though because it always says ZERO)
And yeah No NEW VIDEO for Incarna in the logon. That shows how much they really give a damn about Incarna.
every time I refresh this thread there are three new posts made by you, in which you say absolutely nothing at all...
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Tea Ester Elliot
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:14:00 -
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Something makes me doubt the average Joe at CCP buys into this, much interaction as some have with the community. Hence the leak out of self-interest. I don't think they are oblivious to the fact this agenda essentially puts the gun in EVE's mouth and pulls the trigger.
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Deamos
Dev Null Development and Holdings
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:15:00 -
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This topic needs to stay on top until CCP gives a response! -
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Eladaris
Amarr Excessum Industries
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:15:00 -
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Originally by: Miilla
Originally by: Eladaris
Personally having SEEN this issue, I'd really love to know what some of the earlier ones looked like. Wonder how many times the former CSM members had to put the NDA blindfolds on when discussing the 'future' of Eve.
We should get some CSM members that can read braille for all these blindfolds they wear while reading those newsletters in their meetings.
It's an NDA... and we already know what happens when 'ahem' now-former members of the CSM break those.
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Miilla
Minmatar Hulkageddon Orphanage
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:15:00 -
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Nadarius Chrome
Celestial Horizon Corp.
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:17:00 -
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Coming soon, the yearly "free" expansions will cost only 25,000 AUR. It's free, 'cos you can buy PLEX on the market, turn it into AUR, and buy it that way! |
Adunh Slavy
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:18:00 -
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Originally by: Hra Neuvosto
Originally by: Illwill Bill That Trinity trailer sure brought back memories.
Incarna didn't even have a trailer :(
Kinda hard to do a vid of a cash register and make it interesting.
My faith in CCP will return SoonÖ |
Quartex
Gallente Roving Guns Inc. RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:18:00 -
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Originally by: Don Pellegrino I will be eternally damned for quoting and agreeing with Jade Constantine, but I have to do so.
It nails it:
Originally by: Jade Constantine Here is the problem Verone.
Sure when you have been playing Eve as long as we have you learn to take the rough with the smooth but you do so with the general feeling that CCP developers understand and ôgetö what makes Eve great û and thatÆs the problem now. This internal newsletter (if real) shows that one of the leading developers does not ôget eveö does not care about eve, and simply sees eve as a cash cow to be milked ferociously to fund other projects. This is about keeping the golden goose of eve subscriptions (on a drip feed if necessary) while chasing and grubbing every little loose cent he can from the player base.
Let me give you a couple of examples of how this can and does (and has already) impacted our enjoyment of this game:
1. The Captains Quarters û itÆs not gameplay its a display cabinet for vanity items. And the price of this display cabinet for you and I is that multi-client performance in stations is now terrible û if you have a bad graphic card itÆs a jerk fest û if you have a decent graphics card itÆs heat-fest. I can run 3-4 clients with CQÆs turned on û I can run it smoothly û but do I want to? Hell no because my Gtx 580 sounds like its melting my motherboard now! So I need to turn off the CQÆs on multiple accounts and as a result have more limited functionality on those accounts and an ugly wallpaper. No more station environment, no more clicking on my ship to open cargo hold, no more dragging ship to the hanger to board it. The delivery of the CQ vanity item display case has impacted my gameplay.
CCP could have made it optional and given us the option of keeping the old hanger view and added a ôdisembark shipö option to the UI but ôoh noö to do that would have meant we werenÆt being forced to look the vanity display case that marketing insisted must be front and centre if weÆre to even think about buying these ridiculously overpriced items from the Noble store.
I donÆt want to see Eve Online die Verone. That sounds dramatic I know, but gameworlds die when the dreams and visions are extinguished and that can happen through a succession of bad ideas foisted on a community by people who really donÆt have much of a clue in business.
I've edited Jade's points into the one that matters. S/he has articulated the issue better than most. In addition to my own points I am sad that CCP over-looked the impact on poorer graphic cards and as a businessmen that they didn't think through the effect on the multi account players who inevitably are Eve's power players and loudest voices.
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Duchess Starbuckington
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:18:00 -
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Edited by: Duchess Starbuckington on 23/06/2011 23:18:31 The day people can spend aurum for stuff that isn't purely cosmetic/provides serious practical advantages is the day I unsub. The sentiment in my corp is very much the same.
In the highly unlikely event CCP actually read this: you are playing with fire here. There's only so much you can **** your playerbase around before it will come back to bite you, straight in the wallet. _________________________________
ROCKET STATUS: FIX IN PROGRESS... |
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dumpertt
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:19:00 -
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Originally by: Reed Tiburon
Originally by: Nimbat Have anyone translated and sent this to the russian population in eve? I'm sure they'd like to hear what's going on aswell.
Brilliant idea. Anyone know Russian? Let's get that PDF translated and distributed.
russians do read eve-24 and failheap, man. and yeah - there is thread at eve-ru. pretty same - "unsubbed", "can i have ur stuff", "seleene said it looks real" etc. |
Miilla
Minmatar Hulkageddon Orphanage
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:21:00 -
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Originally by: dumpertt
Originally by: Reed Tiburon
Originally by: Nimbat Have anyone translated and sent this to the russian population in eve? I'm sure they'd like to hear what's going on aswell.
Brilliant idea. Anyone know Russian? Let's get that PDF translated and distributed.
russians do read eve-24 and failheap, man. and yeah - there is thread at eve-ru. pretty same - "unsubbed", "can i have ur stuff", "seleene said it looks real" etc.
Did they mention Me?
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Baaz Vinashak
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:21:00 -
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CCP you are getting the micro transaction piece so wrong. You have a platform that allows you to make simple innovations that can add a significant revenue stream to your business, but your game designers and advisors don't seem to have a clue. Get a good consultant, who has advised telecoms and media players on subscriber model innovation and Value Added Services to guide you. Apps Stores and VAS are simple and elegant ways of creating new revenue streams. Get a good consultant.
p.s I charge 1200 Euros a day, contact in game if you wanna chat
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Eladaris
Amarr Excessum Industries
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:21:00 -
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Originally by: Tea Ester Elliot Something makes me doubt the average Joe at CCP buys into this, much interaction as some have with the community. Hence the leak out of self-interest. I don't think they are oblivious to the fact this agenda essentially puts the gun in EVE's mouth and pulls the trigger.
I think we've heard more than once or twice or twenty times that the rate of pay in Iceland... well... isn't all that grand. We've heard that if you aren't native, you aren't getting a great deal of fast promotions. If you've moved to that rock, your job options are probably pretty damn small. You likely NEED the game to succeed to be successful, but that's more a matter of profit margins and membership numbers, and less what no more than 10% percent of the player base think (forum-goers).
And if you started playing Eve after the T20 fiasco, your sole opportunities for Eve gameplay are likely mining, hi-sec mission running, and doing a bit of exploration. You're pretty much directly forbidden from participating in any of the true eve game play... including scamming, market manipulation, or the rest. We've seen direct proof of that back when the CCP folks chimed into the forums with what they do in-game (IE - not much).
Considering all of that...
Why would the average Joe at CCP really care? It's a poorly paid job where he's probably ignored most of the time anyway, and, not to white knight CCP... but he's probably looked at the forum's a time or three and seen the foaming masses here, and just totally tuned out of the game entirely.
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Velicitia
Open Designs
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:22:00 -
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Originally by: Erichan
I wasn't there but I think the graphics engine got a big upgrade which you can see in some of the videos where they show the old ship transitioned to the new ship. Did I get that right vets?
That would be it... no real "new content" (well not much, from what I remember... I only started at the very tail end of Revelations II) ... but they gave us exactly what we had wanted -- LOTS AND LOTS of pretty for our internet spaceships...
Originally by: CCP Games, Tyranis Expansion, Summer 2010 ...and greed, so destructive. Your choice WILL make a difference
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Adunh Slavy
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:23:00 -
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Originally by: Miilla
Did they mention Me?
LOL - Down in front!
My faith in CCP will return SoonÖ |
Erichan
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:24:00 -
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Originally by: Eladaris
Originally by: Tea Ester Elliot Something makes me doubt the average Joe at CCP buys into this, much interaction as some have with the community. Hence the leak out of self-interest. I don't think they are oblivious to the fact this agenda essentially puts the gun in EVE's mouth and pulls the trigger.
I think we've heard more than once or twice or twenty times that the rate of pay in Iceland... well... isn't all that grand. We've heard that if you aren't native, you aren't getting a great deal of fast promotions. If you've moved to that rock, your job options are probably pretty damn small. You likely NEED the game to succeed to be successful, but that's more a matter of profit margins and membership numbers, and less what no more than 10% percent of the player base think (forum-goers).
And if you started playing Eve after the T20 fiasco, your sole opportunities for Eve gameplay are likely mining, hi-sec mission running, and doing a bit of exploration. You're pretty much directly forbidden from participating in any of the true eve game play... including scamming, market manipulation, or the rest. We've seen direct proof of that back when the CCP folks chimed into the forums with what they do in-game (IE - not much).
Considering all of that...
Why would the average Joe at CCP really care? It's a poorly paid job where he's probably ignored most of the time anyway, and, not to white knight CCP... but he's probably looked at the forum's a time or three and seen the foaming masses here, and just totally tuned out of the game entirely.
I am not voting for John T to be President of CCP or anything, but it demontstrates that at least some of the staff feel that this isn't the right direction. I just don' think they have any more voice than we do right now :(.
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BigBong Theory
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:25:00 -
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leth ghost
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:26:00 -
[2239]
Originally by: Miilla
thought the mods were asleep lol
well they are still about but still no reply to the concerns on this thread doubt there will be
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Florestan Bronstein
draketrain
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:27:00 -
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Originally by: Helicity Boson Everything has been said really. The game is over.
The cards are on the table, I don't think there is any meaningful response CCP could come up with other than doing a 180¦ turn on their strategical direction (and that won't happen).
CCP has tried to fund three games with the revenue of one game - when this proved to be impossible they had to gamble on changing their single cash cow's business model in order to extract more revenue. That's not fearless, it is desperate.
I guess there exist funding agreements with VCs and banks concerning DUST and WoD that would make scrapping or significantly delaying either of these projects impossible. And at least in the case of DUST the sunk cost is probably high enough to justify completing this project no matter how successful it can be expected to be on the market.
EVE still has a lot of momentum - even if it bleeds a few thousand accounts per month it will stay alive for a very long time. In any case it will live long enough to provide DUST with gameplay content for the 6-18 months you can expect a console title to last and to finance the bridge to WoD.
The sad reality is that "nobody wants to buy a monocle for 60$" paves the road for more aggressive MT items/services - there's little choice but to vary the product palette (and pricing) until people start to buy and we all know that there are some MT items that would see huge uptake simply due to the pvp nature of the game (even if they might be unpopular on the forums).
A new game without the legacy cruft, a new audience without the bittervets, a new business model without the sense of entitlement brought by subscriptions, ... if you had to choose between slowly sacrificing EVE to get WoD and instantly sacrificing WoD for a stagnating EVE, what would your choice be?
And there is still the "hope" scenario - hope that MTs will see some serious uptake before CCP has to switch to gameplay affecting offers, hope that DUST will be a success and live for many expansions, hope that CCP will be able to retain its talent through the critical next 1-1.5 years, hope that the huge gamble pays off and that CCP will emerge with three successful games.
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Amitious Turkey
Gallente TarNec
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:27:00 -
[2241]
It's a good thing we, the subscribers, have power over CCP's wallet...I ain't buying a thing from the Noble Exchange until it gets down to pennies. Haunting the forums since '03
Originally by: CCP Navigator We love you all as well <3
Originally by: CCP Navigator We have just updated Dodixie. We care a lot for Gallente.
NAVIGATOR <3 |
Erichan
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:27:00 -
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Aren't we a bit beyond Mods at this point? This is basically so fundamental we're looking for a Hilmer response, aren't we?
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Tea Ester Elliot
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:28:00 -
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Originally by: Eladaris
Originally by: Tea Ester Elliot Something makes me doubt the average Joe at CCP buys into this, much interaction as some have with the community. Hence the leak out of self-interest. I don't think they are oblivious to the fact this agenda essentially puts the gun in EVE's mouth and pulls the trigger.
I think we've heard more than once or twice or twenty times that the rate of pay in Iceland... well... isn't all that grand. We've heard that if you aren't native, you aren't getting a great deal of fast promotions. If you've moved to that rock, your job options are probably pretty damn small. You likely NEED the game to succeed to be successful, but that's more a matter of profit margins and membership numbers, and less what no more than 10% percent of the player base think (forum-goers).
And if you started playing Eve after the T20 fiasco, your sole opportunities for Eve gameplay are likely mining, hi-sec mission running, and doing a bit of exploration. You're pretty much directly forbidden from participating in any of the true eve game play... including scamming, market manipulation, or the rest. We've seen direct proof of that back when the CCP folks chimed into the forums with what they do in-game (IE - not much).
Considering all of that...
Why would the average Joe at CCP really care? It's a poorly paid job where he's probably ignored most of the time anyway, and, not to white knight CCP... but he's probably looked at the forum's a time or three and seen the foaming masses here, and just totally tuned out of the game entirely.
They are not forbidden to do everything, as you're insinuating, and furthermore the level of disconnect you assume is way beyond "guy who logs in to run missions every now and then." The level of ignorance required to push the agenda seen in that pdf is something along the lines of "yeah I know about EVE, it's this space mmo thingy." Nobody with even a hint of connectivity with the community at large would suggest subversion of the game with arum.
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Evolutionairy
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:28:00 -
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dumpertt
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:30:00 -
[2245]
Originally by: Miilla
Did they mention Me?
**** or gtfo
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Myra2007
Millstone Industries
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:32:00 -
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Originally by: Erichan Aren't we a bit beyond Mods at this point? This is basically so fundamental we're looking for a Hilmer response, aren't we?
This! Eagerly awaiting another smug tweet any minute now. -- Zinfandelgate - A fictionalized account of the events that led to June, 21st |
DjLowballer
Amarr Firebird Squadron
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:33:00 -
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75 pages and still nothing? Crazy
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Bloodpetal
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:34:00 -
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75 Pages in less than 48 hours, can we reach 200 pages in the next couple days?
What's the longest thread in EVE Forum history?
____________________________________________________ Cost of the week of June 21st |
Tea Ester Elliot
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:34:00 -
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Originally by: Myra2007
Originally by: Erichan Aren't we a bit beyond Mods at this point? This is basically so fundamental we're looking for a Hilmer response, aren't we?
This! Eagerly awaiting another smug tweet any minute now.
Mittani vs. Hilmar smug-tweet war.
Go.
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IVeige
Caldari IVever.
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Posted - 2011.06.23 23:34:00 -
[2250]
Originally by: Helgur 4 ****ing years with this game. I'll miss it. This is truly the coup de grGce and this is the first time I've uttered these words: eve is dead
GG CCP GG
Agree, bye ccp. Suscription cancelled.
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