RawringDragon
Eternal Dragons
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Posted - 2010.06.05 06:45:00 -
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Absolutely supported.
The Quantity over Quality procedure needs to be turned around as soon as possible. To some, it currently seems like CCP are running around with their arms in the air to patch on a new half-finished feature here, partial band-aid bug fix there, etc.
As I have said elsewhere, I genuinely am worried about the future for Eve and CCP. I care about the game, and want to see it succeed. But once mature, strong and direct competition enters the market (of which some are getting close to beta or release), I honestly don't see an appeal for players to continue to cling to and develop the fruits of their labor in eve.
CCP can only draw on the patience and good will of the player base for so long, before hopes and promises of revisiting, fixing and developing existing features, such as Wormholes, Faction Warfare, Cosmos Missions, Lowsec incentives, Dominion treaties, Sov upgrades and expandability, Starbases, T3 iterations, Industry, Game physics, Fleet formations/tactics, Bounty systems, and so on, begins to grow thin and players become disenchanted with the whole repeating process of release first, promise to iterate on the content as time goes along. The iteration never seems to come, as CCP gets distracted by a major feature that they feel is central to pushing the game towards a milestone or one of their visions. The current example being PI which is required for Dust 514.
There has been talk of Excellence, Agile development, SCRUM and so forth. But it feels as if the same CCP-esqe handling of features and content is applied to the implementations of these terms.
Excellence, as already discussed earlier in this thread, held deep promises in the minds of the players of real changes happening at CCP.
We have seen examples of SCRUM and Agile Development being trampled on at a moments notice, never being properly followed through to commit to a streamlined development process with resources being directed where they really should be given most.
I only hope my support is counted and that CCP will read.
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