Rhoulaki
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Posted - 2010.07.17 20:41:00 -
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Originally by: Kai Lae
Originally by: CCP Soundwave We need to try and make sure we're fixing old systems, but at the same time it would be a tragedy to stop developing the EVE universe.
Here's the problem with this statement. The reason that adding new features to the game is important is because it keeps eve expanding, always changing, always different, which is something unique about eve. However, the way that you all have been doing it is that you frequently release a feature - which either doesn't work, doesn't work as advertised, or is just a huge pain in the ass - tell us to rejoice, and move on to the next feature to do this to. What this means is all of these "new features" aren't really much of features at all because few want to use them because they're broken. So sure, you've added new content, but in the end it hasn't changed much because either no one uses it or if it's a feature that is so encompassing that large populations have to make use of it (0.0 sov for example) it's roundly despised. You've either changed the play experience frequently in a negligible way or in some cases in a actual negative fashion.
It would be different if for instance you admitted your errors and then devoted enough resources to actually correct the issues that are identified by CCP/CSM/players, but you simply don't. You orphan them and then move on to working on the next shiny - which generally is implemented in a similarly half-assed fashion as most of the previous features. I'll admit sometimes you get it right out of the box, but generally you don't and you need followup work which is never received. Great example is of course assault frigates. I don't know how long you've been a CCP employee. However, I suspect that I might have more time in eve than you do; I've been playing since castor, which is a long time indeed. AF have been really poorly balanced since they came out, and I and a small group of players have been complaining about them and asking them to be fixed for 6 years now. Actually that's false, because I think that I'm probably the last one left from that long ago - I don't see Weirda post anymore so I think he quit for example. You have actually done work on them twice which most people don't know/or forget. The problem is, like most things CCP, you still didn't get it right. You threw out a "fix", claimed victory, and moved on to something new. In short you accomplished nothing. This is how CCP operates, and frankly long time customers like myself are getting tired of it.
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