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Holy One
Habitual Euthanasia
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2012.06.26 17:04:00 -
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Spin. What you want CCP is a closed environment where naysayers and critics can be snuffed out in favour of rabid fanbois.
You want to avoid what has happened the last three years with your terrible expansions - people vocally and vociferously criticising your business decisions ad individuals responsible for them.
You want censorship and control and those two things will only result in a polarisation of game design and false confidence in your feedback quality and bias. Historically the Eve 'community' has been quick and sharp to point out your poor business and game design decisions and has been highly critical at key times in your business direction - which has saved you on several occasions.
The new 'direction' is merely going to result in an extension of the hubris bubble we see historically you like to perpetuate internally. Over time you will drive away anyone who disagrees with the 'herd' and force them to take their concerns and their passion to 'other' forums which your staff have no interest in monitoring.
Every entertainment media developer who has in the past opted for a highly moderated environment has seen their communities stagnate and whither. If you deny Evil Online's true nature and ignore those many tens of thousands of individuals who decry the constant and ham fisted attempts to destroy their faith in you, instead opting to surround yourself with sycophants, pedants and casuals: goooood fight.
Eve is hard. It is also full of foul mouthed bad people. Your business model as a niche product catering to Evil Online wannabes, results in an libertarian, highly vocal and irreverent player base. If you allow the closed ranks of the bears to drone out any dissenters then I predict sad and embarrassing things for you as a company going forward.
You won't make Eve stronger or the game better or attract more carebears by excluding the very hard core nucleous of angry, anti social and vocal nerds who prop up this mmo from populating and shitting up your forums. Whoever it is that has had this brain fart of 'micro' managing away all criticism of you operating procedures, policies and decision making processes, doesn't get it. In just the very same sad and predictable way people like me would be quick to point out before ISD n3rd edits it away. |
Holy One
Habitual Euthanasia
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2012.06.26 17:38:00 -
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You don't need to tell someone they are offended or arbitrarily isolate them from the risk of being 'upset' by someone else on a forum. Let people determine who is and who isn't annoying and/or offending them. They can ignore, filter and disseminate their own prejudices, based on their *own* subjective perspective. We don't need a ministry of thought control (ISD) deciding for us.
To attempt to conceal this *epic* paradigm shift in the cuddly in-offensive blanket of 'just trying to make it friendlier' is insulting to anyone's intelligence Herr Navigator.
Censorship = suppression. That is what you are advocating. Above and beyond. And it is not (and never has been) motivated by altruism! |
Holy One
Habitual Euthanasia
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2012.06.26 18:21:00 -
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CCP Navigator wrote:Akirei Scytale wrote:CCP Navigator wrote:It has become apparent over the last 24 hours that players are upset at the perceived locking of legitimate discussion threads on the forums. We've been upset for a whole ******* lot longer than 24 hours.Whats the point of ISD? Seriously. I have never seen ISD do their job right in the entire time I've spent on these forums. Thank you for your input, Akirei. While you are entitled to your opinion we have received many petitions and mails from players who are thankful for the help they have received from ISD right across the board. I am sorry that they do not meet your expectations.
The noticeable change in your tone in just two pages kinda reveals the future of 'friendlier forums' to us. Thanks m8r. |
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