Lunce
PWNED Factor
The Seventh Day
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Posted - 2011.09.29 08:25:00 -
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Myself? When I read:
'Over the past days and weeks, CCP has been doing extensive and intense introspection and revitalization. The result of this is a refocusing and reprioritization on a scale unheard of within our company.'
And:
'We have decided, to focus our collective efforts on the areas you have asked us to focus on.'
I almost cried with relief. Really. Why? In all honesty, I have not logged into the game in almost a month now. The fact is that for me, the game's lost a lot of it's fun. 0.0 which has been my home almost since I started playing is totally ****ed now. Supers killed it. It is broken and now needs a complete makeover to become fun again for the average Pod Pilot. In order to play in 0.0 now, there is simply no valid option other than to be some alliance's ***** (pardon the language.)
For over a year there has mostly been negativity in the forums, largely because CCP has chosen to focus it's energies on other games and on a patch (Incarna) that simply feels to me like a band aid solution, something to point to as new and wonderful in hopes of drawing huge numbers of players to the game.
The simple fact is that EVE will always be a niche game. It will never compete for subscription numbers with the WOWs out there that cater to simplicity and mediocrity. EVE is too different, too complex, and too challenging to learn for most people. That's fine. Simply focus on improving the core game, the UI, and player satisfaction, and the game will continue to grow and remain healthy.
Keep EVE's players always looking forward with excitement and expectation and they will be your best recruiting tool.
Sadly, however, the core of EVE has suffered from inattention to broken and/or incomplete game mechanics/features for a painfully long time now. I was starting to get the strong feeling that CCP was going to let EVE simply die out through inattention while it focused it's energies on new games.
For months and months I looked to the forums for any breath of hope that the many issues in EVE that need attention were being worked on. In vain. For the longest time it's been painful watching the hate posts from irate players and the (hurt?) silence from CCP. Unhealthy.
A game simply cannot last long term with this level of animosity between it's players and Owners. Not only that, but the Devs are caught in the middle here. They are not the policy makers, and they can hardly do their best work when they don't feel appreciated.
When Arnar posts that 'CCP has been doing extensive and intense introspection', I believe it. They have been forced due to the events of the last few months to realize that what the players have been repeating over and over, that the game mechanics/features NEED to be worked on, is actually critical to the long term health of the game.
So yes, this time I do believe CCP when they say they are going to work on these issues. It also gives me hope that I will again be able to look forward to playing EVE with excitement and expectation. |