Izo Alabaster
Friendly Neighbourhood Extortion Company
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Posted - 2009.07.16 01:58:00 -
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 Originally by: Darkdood
... but because the devs honestly don't seem to care that a large part of there paying customers don't want these things.
Carebears are similar to mindless zombies. They only want easier and easier, and don't see the bigger picture, that EVE is a unique and challenging game because it often times forces player interaction with consequences of those interactions.
- Easier doesn't necessarily make EVE a better game.
- More carebear friendly doesn't necessarily make EVE a better game.
- Making EVE appeal to a larger playerbase (super-carebears?) doesn't necessarily make EVE a better game.
Originally by: Darkdood
"The customer is always right".
No, you're not right. You're wrong and foolish.
Originally by: Darkdood
All I'm going to say is this... Go ask the Star Wars Galaxy's devs what happens when you ignore your player base. The first game that comes along that is as good or better everyone leaves. For all you lamers out there that think that can't happen to eve wake up. It can. It was STAR WARS. Think about that for a second. You know the uber movie franchise of all time. Yet everyone left. I know I was one of them. WoW came out and I was gone.
That's not what happened. They actually DID listen to their playerbase, but they listened to the wrong ones. They pandered to their playerbase, trying to appeal to a larger and larger demographic, until what they were left with was a bastardized travesty of what it once was, which wasn't that great of a game in the first place.
CCP has a history of making changes that may be unpopular at the time, but it usually yields a better and stronger game in the long run.
Examples: Missile nerf, Falcon nerf, numerous Gallente nerfs, Amarr nerfs/buffs, agility nerf-buff-nerf-buff-nerfs etc. etc.
Your $15/mo doesn't guarantee that you're going to be the uberking of EVE, because this is a real MMO, where other people compete for the same goals. Please quit asking for everything to just be handed to you, and go out there and actually PLAY the game.
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