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tasman devil
Amarr
Imperium Galactica
Omega Alliance
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Posted - 2009.04.02 14:07:00 -
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I've always loved to read Quarterly Economic Newsletter of EVE Online... but lately (for more than half a year) no new newsletter has emerged from the dungeon of Dr. EyjoG...
Any idea where did it go?
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Midas Man
Caldari
Dzark Innovations
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Posted - 2009.04.02 14:14:00 -
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 Originally by: tasman devil
I've always loved to read Quarterly Economic Newsletter of EVE Online... but lately (for more than half a year) no new newsletter has emerged from the dungeon of Dr. EyjoG...
Any idea where did it go?
We had on last year next is due in December 2033
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tasman devil
Amarr
Imperium Galactica
Omega Alliance
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Posted - 2009.04.02 14:58:00 -
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Originally by: Midas Man
Originally by: tasman devil
I've always loved to read Quarterly Economic Newsletter of EVE Online... but lately (for more than half a year) no new newsletter has emerged from the dungeon of Dr. EyjoG...
Any idea where did it go?
We had on last year next is due in December 2033
yeah that is the OTHER issue... it supposed to be QUARTERLY... we only got our eyes poked out with ONE and even that was ONLY after the whole Ghost Train issue... :P
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Emywn Vanya
Caldari
Redemption or Retribution
The Second Genesis
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Posted - 2009.04.02 16:13:00 -
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vote for hexxx! He promised to corner Dr. EyjoG and beat him with the first Quarterly Economic Newsletter until he releases another..
or something like that
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Kazzac Elentria
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Posted - 2009.04.02 16:21:00 -
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They call it quarterly cause its every 4 years, not 4 months. |
Draylan Poltrin
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Posted - 2009.04.02 23:16:00 -
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Edited by: Draylan Poltrin on 02/04/2009 23:20:52
Originally by: Kazzac Elentria
They call it quarterly cause its every 4 years, not 4 months.
Every 3 months is quarterly. 
We sort of had a QEN Q2 2008 report here (2008.11.28!) but that was the last mention. He is still posting so is around...
Oh, Dr E is wearing his PR role hat, here.
For reference;
Quarterly Economic Reports; (Links to Dev Blogs).
QEN Q3 2007 here. First!
QEN Q4 2007 here.
QEN Q1 2008 here.
QEN Q2 2008 here (sort of). (Not a pdf).
QEN Q3 2008 due "2008(due in December)".
QEN Q4 2008 due "due in January 2009".
QEN Q1 2009 due SOONÖ.
Economic Dev Blogs;
1. Market Overview For Mineral Markets.
2. Production of space ships.
3. Some statistics on corporations.
4. How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love Carebearing (or QEN Q2 2008!).
EDIT;
Just spotted this thread, post 9 by Dr E himself.  
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Ricdic
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.04.02 23:22:00 -
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He is too busy doing interviews with mmorpg.com trying to get new signups to worry about existing customers. |
CornerStoner
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Posted - 2009.04.02 23:27:00 -
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The only place the QEN exists is when the good Dr is quoted saying something like "My primary responsibility is keeping the player base informed via QENs."
It's a shame that he's been reduced to a living billboard. |
Kwint Sommer
Caldari
XERCORE
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Posted - 2009.04.03 02:40:00 -
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Edited by: Kwint Sommer on 03/04/2009 02:41:07
He actually has 17 posts. eve-search is your friend.
Their "resident economist" is nothing but a PR stunt and the QEN's are a joke that ought to be dispensed with. The reports have been damn near meaningless and he's a couple quarters behind and too busy giving interviews to fix that. I'd rather they admit they have no idea what they're doing with the economy than the current farce. After all, the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. Sadly, the devs are oblivious and the good PR Doctor thinks we're in the midst of deflation. 
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Chssmius
Federation of Freedom Fighters
Aggression.
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Posted - 2009.04.03 07:30:00 -
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Originally by: Kwint Sommer
Edited by: Kwint Sommer on 03/04/2009 02:41:07
He actually has 17 posts. eve-search is your friend.
Their "resident economist" is nothing but a PR stunt and the QEN's are a joke that ought to be dispensed with. The reports have been damn near meaningless and he's a couple quarters behind and too busy giving interviews to fix that. I'd rather they admit they have no idea what they're doing with the economy than the current farce. After all, the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. Sadly, the devs are oblivious and the good PR Doctor thinks we're in the midst of deflation.
You may be missing the point.
This is my interpretation of the matter.
The Doctor is doing exactly what they hired him for, aside from bragging rights. He is correcting the Eve economy.
Eve had been undergoing deflation until fairly recently. The Doctor was brought on to correct this, hence we are now experiencing degrees of inflation and speculation in certain markets.
Some of the premiere economic theory states that the primary method of influencing the price of goods is by controlling the inflow of currency. The more inflow there is the less individual currency units are worth, see monetization and the quantity theory of money if you are interested.
In Eve this hadn't happened until recently. The exact reason is not entirely known and this is why the Doctor was hired. To evaluate the health of the the Eve economy and establish monetary policy or the Eve equivalent. Gimmicks like PLEXs, and tracking down the "leaks" and "anomalies" in the system.
My guess is the QEN's were primarily a part of the PR side of things as the Doctor began to familiarize himself with Eve. Like a promise made without realizing the full extend of things.
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LaVista Vista
Conservative Shenanigans Party
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Posted - 2009.04.03 08:13:00 -
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Originally by: Ricdic
He is too busy doing interviews with mmorpg.com trying to get new signups to worry about existing customers.
Shame that you miss out on the bigger picture. Because then you might have had a point.
EyjoG does other things than QEN. He also stated that they have been under-staffed and have had to deal with the exploit last year and other things like that.
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Midas Man
Caldari
Dzark Innovations
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Posted - 2009.04.03 08:46:00 -
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Originally by: LaVista Vista
Originally by: Ricdic
He is too busy doing interviews with mmorpg.com trying to get new signups to worry about existing customers.
Shame that you miss out on the bigger picture. Because then you might have had a point.
EyjoG does other things than QEN. He also stated that they have been under-staffed and have had to deal with the exploit last year and other things like that.
I think the big picture is professionalism, time and time again CCP make promises, break those promises and only admit to it with some 1 line "oops sorry about that" on page 158 of the forum drama.
Any company supplying a service has a responsibility of offering the service as promised to the customer.
Price something up wrong in a shop you have to sell at that price you cannot say "oops sorry at the till"
If CCP or the good Dr would spend 2 seconds posting a 1 line statement - "Sorry we were unable to meet the promised dealine, we will strive to bring it too you as soon as possible we expect to need another 2 weeks" they would avoid a sh&t tonne of bad press.
There is more proffesionalism in alot of IPO's even the Scam ones than CCP will ever be able to match without major internal changes.
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Crimsoneer
Gallente
Knowledge Stick Station
Hedonistic Imperative
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Posted - 2009.04.03 09:12:00 -
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Can we stop calling him The Doctor? Seriously, it isn't capitalised people. He desn't have a TARDIS, or a sonic screwdriver.
On a more relevant note, the lack of newsletters is IMO a huge shame.
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Snasty
Caldari
The Hippies
House of Mercury
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Posted - 2009.04.03 09:37:00 -
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Originally by: Crimsoneer
He desn't have a TARDIS
Which is a shame, for if he did he might stand a chance aat getting his promised information out in time.
This newsletter, and the good doctor, fail. End of - in my eyes.
Worthless to me, totally worthless.
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Kazzac Elentria
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Posted - 2009.04.03 16:45:00 -
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Originally by: LaVista Vista
Originally by: Ricdic
He is too busy doing interviews with mmorpg.com trying to get new signups to worry about existing customers.
Shame that you miss out on the bigger picture. Because then you might have had a point.
EyjoG does other things than QEN. He also stated that they have been under-staffed and have had to deal with the exploit last year and other things like that.
If he is so understaffed, he should truthfully wander his happy ass on down into this section of the forums and scrum with some of us here.
You know, the some of us who saw something goofy with the T2 market well before the exploit was known, the same group who predicted the zydrine F'up when the drone regions were known, etc...
Hell, half the time his reports are nothing but fanciful fluff anyway. Items of interest that we the players here already know most of the time. Case in point with the T2 exploit. His report was extraordinarily detailed however one of our own market crystal balls Akita predicted with almost freakish accuracy a guesstimate of the possible numbers involved well before the report hit.
I think there is a wealth of knowledge and resource here available to him, and that he hasn't tapped it by now just stinks of this whole economist thing being a PR stunt IMHO.
Hell, CCP Chronotis gives us better information than he does and interacts with us down here more than he ever has. I have more faith in Chronotis's knowledge of the EVE markets than I do the good doctor. |
Pastiche
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Posted - 2009.04.03 18:37:00 -
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Edited by: Pastiche on 03/04/2009 18:42:36
lag/double post
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Pastiche
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Posted - 2009.04.03 18:38:00 -
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Fluff, inaccurate, or what have you. I do miss the reports. It does feel like another broken promise. After a 6 months hiatus from Eve, it was the reports and some of the MD pillars posts that brought me back.
At least we have more action on the secondary markets.
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Clair Bear
Perkone
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Posted - 2009.04.03 19:27:00 -
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In a perfect world we, players, would have access to the metrics analyzed by Dr. E in the past. Instead of hunting for scraps of information to project wildly from.
His data analysis in the past has been laughably wrong at best. It's not shocking he doesn't participate in discourse here -- considering the rabid, lynch-mob mentality we exhibit at the slightest sign of error. I mean, the collective response to each newsletter has been "Wow, I can *smell* how dumb you are from all the way over here in Denver!" Would you want to subject yourself to this if you were in his shoes?
The raw data in his reports contained a wealth of value though. If the reports were run for him once it can't be *that* hard to automate them and publish the results once a quarter. That's the value of those reports, not analysis by someone who's never played eve.
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