Kblackjack54
Mercurialis Inc.
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2012.06.08 02:22:00 -
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If CCP is geniuine about talking sensibly to the players then maybe they would like to step up and explain to them why it was so imperative that this UI update was brought in at all, what was the motivation for it and why after so much negative feed back on it from SISI and now on TQ they want to persist with it at all.
This because I for one am baffled by the latest offering regarding the time taken in beating the current UI into some semblance of a workable product.
That you are going to take a step back from the multiple fixes and workaround scenerio is of no suprise, that it took so long is.
An even bigger suprise is that you still cling to the notion that this product can ever be made to work in the sense of returning the original intuative fuctionality to the UI at all.
Your rather weak explanation that in some way you have only moved the tab system from the top of the window to the side is an enhancement I for one found insulting, however if your full and frank disclosure regarding this forced change to game mechanics answers this it will go a long way to helping the players understand what this change is actually for. |
Kblackjack54
Mercurialis Inc.
RAZOR Alliance
79
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Posted - 2012.06.09 11:13:00 -
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Interesting that CCP Goliath refers to this abomination of a UI in terms of being welcoming intuitive and new player friendly, seems they missed the fact that we were all once new players who once upon a time all found the original UI intuitive and user friendly after a few minutes of working out what it actual was and how it worked.
This was part of the new player experience, part of the much publicised EVE vertical learning curve and dare I say it part of what made EVE interesting.
The current mind set of CCP Dev's appears to be one of dumbing down all aspects of EVE to console game levels which if you care to go back through the Forums a lot of us predicted that this type of infection would spread into EVE when DUST was first announced.
Now we have been presented with a UI set up so similar to one of a console game in operation that is would be hard for even Goliath to spin this one as not being so linked and still have any credibility left to him as the similarities have become more noticeable over the past three iterations of EVE and during each small changes have taken place as various aids to integration have been inserted.
CQ and PI to name but two, CQ was a public relations disaster for CCP yet it is still there like a lagg dripping bogey man lurking in the shadows just waiting for SONY to pull the plug on the station environment and force it onto players once again.
One wonders if CCP actually tracked what happened after the recent large update when CQ was reset and had once again to be banished, how many players actually did this ASAP horrified for a moment that this monster had actually got loose permanently, CCP did indeed stand CQ down in the end but only as far as allowing players not to be forced to use it.
Players at the time expressed great concern as to why CCP had actually done this at all and along with the 'Noble Exchange' never really got a full and frank explanation as to the reasoning behind it.
A number of us have politely asked and noticeably not yet received a credible explanation as to why CCP actually introduced this UI at all, most of us that have taken the time to present arguments as to why this UI is an utter failure have also noted that CCP has again become entrenched about it's latest creation and begun yet again a trail of spin as they attempt to defend it.
To close, I would again request that those running CCP step up and explain to the players why they have to suffer this new UI at all, and to Goliath in particular....
Given the option between using the tree structure and the original UI, from what I have read and from what players I spend a lot of time with have said, quite frankly they would go for the old UI without question, warts and all, not going to spend time trying to explain why to you.....it's an EVE thing, something that you aint getting on any level. |