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Posted - 2011.07.25 17:03:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Dr.EyjoG
Originally by: Gripen Is this blog a replacement for the QEN?
We will change the format of the QEN but this devblog and the data that comes along with it is an addition to other economic information available to the players. This is a part of a larger plan to give more data directly to players so that they can do their own analysis. And yes, this will continue in the future.
We have not published QENs for 2010 and will most likely not publish them in the previous format but rather moving the Economic Newsletters to more of an annual report. The frequency of the publication is though still being discussed.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but CCP has become entirely too easy to predict in its actions, inactions and decision patterns.
That has nothing to do with the value of transparancy I should add, it has everything to do with those actions, inactions and decision patterns.
That being said, in light of CCP's commitment on communication with its customers as reaffirmed by CCP recently in light of recent events, it would help to provide some insight to people who do not dig into matters. It prevents people from running off with assumptions, rather than conclusions. Insight in regards to your specific motivations for said changes.
After all, it is the divide between presentation and delivery which has unfortunately become a structural affair. I know, yes there is the argument of "there is too much insight from our customers into XYZ". That is understandable, but also quite wrong. It's an impression, rooted in very different things than the effective game dynamic. And yes, there is also the argument of sensitivity of data as well as variables. Now please do not take this the wrong way, but you do have rather unique customers, and you as CCP are part of the dynamic you created. The less information and communication provided, the more the dynamic becomes subject to study and analysis - and remember, that includes CCP as well as sensitive data and variables.
The worst thing to do, is to leave such gaps. Why? Because customers fill them in, in group behaviour bordering on social dynamics which creates its own momentum. Since CCP has an interesting dependancy there, in at minimum two ways, I do not think that is a road to ignore.
I fully understand that there is initiative and focus to take it deeper without showing too many cards. That is commendable. But can you understand that two out of three consumer/service currencies have been compromised? Belief, trust, leaving emotion standing solo. CCP itself has its own battle with that, as Zulu referred to more than once in the aftermath (or rather: pause) of recent events.
It is simply no longer enough to drop a hint, and then leave the stage. The dynamic has grown so much that what was fine in earlier days these days leaves vacuums (of information, communication, social interaction, and so forth). What happens with vacuums? Well, the same as the previous events of disruptions in the interdependancy between CCP and its customers.
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