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Catari Taga
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Posted - 2010.04.17 11:12:00 -
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The "expansion" is a joke, no need to even discuss it, but their landmarks screenshot made me laugh, guess someone got very happy on the copy&paste button and just replicated the same pattern all over the map.
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Catari Taga
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Posted - 2010.04.17 14:10:00 -
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 Originally by: CCP Manifest
Your list is basically our 4 commandments, so I'm glad you put them in once place.
fix whats broke
add features that the players want
reduce lag
and above all communicate with the player base in the way that made EVE what it was
If that was actually true I'd be extending my subscription now for a year instead of starting to look out for other games while my subscription runs out.
1. The problem is you do not fix what's broke and you break stuff at a higher rate than you fix it anyway. When we get a new player into our wormhole POS we have to spend literally hours (no, I am not exaggerating) explaining all the game bugs and possibly workarounds to them, guiding them around the obstinately horrible UI (you MUST be making it this bad on purpose, right?), explaining all the actions that create horrible lag and need to be avoided/only done in safe locations, etc. Bitter much? Yes, I am...
2. You are not adding features that players want - I must have missed the threadnought asking for blinking lights on some specific manufacturers hardware to name but one current example, on the other hand there is a long long list of features players are constantly asking for and that I do not need to repeat here because you should be well aware of them. In fact you are never even finishing any expansion despite constant promises of "that is for later addition" (we know you will never add it) and you usually end up scrapping the features players have actually been asking for.
3. Reduce lag. No doubt you are trying to do it but comparing the astonishingly lag-free Apocrypha (it was awesome!) to what we have now in Dominion still makes you wonder how the bug tracking can be so difficult and why communication on what you have found out so far is far and in between is always lacking of substance.
4. Communicate with the player base. The only communication about your goals seems to be at fan fests and that is largely just PR or wishful thinking. Dev blogs can usually be ignored as a guideline because there has scarcely been a game mechanics dev blog recently which has not been reversed/changed significantly - moreover the only relevant information is not in the blogs themselves but in the threadnoughts that ensue and that without eve-search.com's filtering for dev posts would be unreadable anyway. And I do not even need to refer to the pre-Dominion super-capital debacle for this.
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Catari Taga
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Rough Necks
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Posted - 2010.04.19 00:07:00 -
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Originally by: Grayclay
Ok, first off, the INDUSTRY STANDARD is $14.99 a month. All "brand-name" MMO's charge that as their monthly fee.
That's only true for where you pay in USD, in Europe CCP charges substantially more than all other major MMOs.
To the rest of your argument, if you really believe anybody would pay for expansions like Tyrannis, then CCP should probably start charging for them. At least you could then more easily "vote with your wallet" other than dropping the game entirely.
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