JGR Guinevere
Caldari
Dirt Nap Squad
Dirt Nap Squad.
   |
Posted - 2010.06.03 04:03:00 -
[1]
I can remember the joy I felt when the first rumblings of this game started to pop up on the Internet. It gave me the hope of finally being able to play an Elite style game as a MMO. To some extent, that has dream has been fulfilled (although, I am still waiting to be able to fly across the landscape of a plant). I have been attached to this game since beta and still love the concept of EVE. However, it seems to me that quality has fallen to the way side in favor of a fast development schedule over the last couple of years. Don't get me wrong. I like having significant updates every 6 months. However, I have to agree with the majority here--there must be some form of development in the direction of the older content. I just don't think that it will be possible without some increase in development personnel specifically allocated to this endeavor. Between the development of other projects and the upcoming Dust release there simply is not time for anything else. Their plate is full my friends.
What CCP must ask themselves is, "Do we love EVE?" If the answer is yes, then they need to gather up the team and really attempt to identify the most nagging issues with their beloved game. They should make a true effort to illicit the feedback of the community on those specific topics and then tackle the problems most important to them (as the loving creators) and us (the loving players) and call it a release. I don't know about anyone else. But I would be more than happy with a once a year major release followed a minor release that contains at least a few significant fixes to older content. I know that new releases drive new subscriptions and even sometimes pull old players back to the game. I know its a money thing. Everyone wants to make money. It's an acceptable endeavor. However, just as the original post suggests, is it worth being less than excellent? Is it worth being less than your potential? In the beginning, there was this small and obscure game developer named CCP. They were mavericks armed with the dream of creating something unique that broke the mold of what a MMO can be. I want to believe those mavericks still exist. I want to believe that dream is still alive. I want to believe that this little game, that was considered by many to be far to ambitious to succeed, is still loved by its creators.
We, the EVE community, LOVE this game. We, the eve community, prove our love everyday with our incessant whining. If we didn't care so much we would simply move on to another game. But we don't. We continue to come back, day after day, to experience something that can't be found anywhere else. We do so with the hope that this game, out of the many, will live up to its potential and that it will continue to be what other games strive to become.
|