Sylthi
Minmatar Coreward Pan-Galactic
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Posted - 2008.10.10 20:36:00 -
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Originally by: Vengal Seyhan God in heaven there are some angry, angry people playing this game.
This is one of the major parts of your post that I agree with, but not the only part. UNfortunately, what you seem to miss is that maybe people have a very good reason to be this upset. CCP likes to tout that they are a "different kind of MMO", and with the exception of their draconian rule balance and enforcement efforts, they are largely right. The concept and gameplay of Eve is awesome! No question. The implementation and running of Eve, and how often you get to play Eve, however, are etirely different stories. Many people, myself included, have years invested in this game. Why? Because that is how long it takes to train for some of the higher end stuff. When you add all of that up, you're talking about nearing a thousand dollars, for a single account. THAT, my friend, IS a big deal.
This nerf, by itself, threatens all of that money and time invested for many people. Again, myself included, but not in the way you think. More on that in a minute.
This game isn't like WoW, where you can play for 3 months, ding your character to 60, see everything there is to see, and be gone for just under a hundred bucks. (I have not done this as I would not touch WoW with a ten-foot pole, but I have several friends who have.) For the most part, this point is a GOOD thing for Eve. But, it can just as easily become a very bad thing. Because, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Sorry, its politics season in the US, couldn't resist.
So, for the most part I agree with you. If people are that upset with CCP for the changes, then they should vote with their wallets as I have. My once five accounts have fallen down to one, solely because of bonehead rule changes like the one CCP is planning here. Who knows, one day I may be down to none if CCP keeps going this way.
Now that we are done with the "love in" we get to the part that I don't agree with, and that happens to be the majority of the tone of your post. You're attitude seems to be that: "My play style is being enhanced so: GREAT! Everyone else who's play style is getting trashed should just shut up, stop posting, go away, and die."
Honestly, if you don't see a problem with your attitude, when paraphrased like I just did, I am really wasting my time calling you on it.
The last point I want to make here is that it was my question that I posted that was answered about "Why are you making slow ships slower as part of the effort to fix the "too fast" ones." I deeply appreciate the fact that my question got answered, and the honesty in which it was answered. UNfortunately, the answer I got from the dev was just about what I expected, and why I am so angry at CCP right now.
Because, you see, I do not fly nano. I fly battleships, both in PvP and PvE all the time. Battleships are getting a massive hit with the "Speed balancing effort", because the devs answer was: "because something had to give somewhere." That is a COMPLETELY despotic answer! That is: "You are getting crapped on because we say so."
Make no mistake my friends, the "Speed Balance" and the "Speed fixing" are two entirely different things that the devs have very wrongly lumped together so as to make us swallow them. "Speed Fixing" the ships that are breaking the game is needed. But, ONLY them, and ONLY to stop them from breaking the game. The "Speed Balance" is just a blatant abuse of power on the part of the devs and is plainly wrong. It NEEDS to be stopped.
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