Originally by: Sarah Norbulk

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Originally by: Jordan Musgrat

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Once upon a time, there was a MMO developer named CCP. It was a small organization, who had the incredible vision to make one of the most epic sandbox games in the world. In fact, you could say that it is the most in depth game ever created, and you'd be right. But something began to go wrong, because the senior CCP members with this vision slowly started to filter out, and the newbies began to run the company. Over time, the vision changed, and here we are today, playing a game run by a massive company for profit rather than fun. I wish we still had competent devs in charge of balancing my EvE, but maybe they're on CCP's new A project, DUST, a new console title. I can only hope that DUST turns out to be epic, and that epicness justifies giving my EvE the Bteam devs.

To be more specific CCP, you need to fire some people. Balance is not about changing things around till they work, it's not about creating new ship classes to cover your mistakes, it's about looking at each ship individually, with regard to the way the game is played, then looking forward to the future, and trying to give us a balance of stats. There was once a time when you were in contact with the people who really played this game, and balanced it based on what they said. Now that's gone. CCP and EvE are 2 separate communities now, and I don't think there's any going back. You'd have to get ingame with your dev characters and fly around talking to people or something. Ya, no chance of that.

Once, you would have fixed your existing stuff before trying to create new stuff. Now, you either leave the existing broken stuff alone in favor of new shiny stuff, or you replace the broken stuff with new shiny stuff. You need a wakeup call, and I think that this patch may be it for you. The problem is, by the time most game developers finally come around and realize that they've well and truly ****ed their game over, it's too late.

If this goes through, I'll prolly be retiring. Not because I own a mothership, but because every single patch in the past 2-3 years has been about adding new stuff to attract more players. You've not tried to keep your existing ones. Fix the game for us loyal customers, or good luck getting new people to play. It's not that this 1 nerf is the end of the game. It's the unending stream of incompetence we see from you CCP that makes us want to find something else.

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This is an excellent post and sums up my feelings pretty effectively.

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