Steel Sparrows
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Posted - 2010.07.30 06:35:00 -
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 Originally by: Cinori Aluben
The general lack of developmental care for the existing game and CCP's disdain for the very vocal desire of it's playerbase is overwhelming, appalling, and offending, as gleaned from the OP devblog, CSM minutes, and the oft-condescending and attempted confusion-mongering remarks from CCP reps hereafter.
Don't get so caught up with expansion pursuits that you lose track of what has kept players loyal. We can't get EVE out of our blood, but we also won't stand for a broken or stagnant game (or the middle finger either).
I said it all throughout my CSM campaign (which I was in top 20 of in votes), and it seems to have become the overriding theme of the CSM since, and the overriding theme of this entire thread: Fix the Little Things First! Focus one single expansion, and your ad-campaign therefor, on tightening and honing this game. You will get LOADS of returning customers, which is like new customers but better, bc they'll more fully enrich and deepen your game that you so avidly and publicly claim to love. THEN, after you've solidified your foundation, expand and build a superstructure!
Please CCP, change all of our minds.
(Snips in quotes not indicated, because I don't care.)
So basically, when I saw this dev blog, it crystallized four years of experiences on the forums and with EVE, and made my decision for me. CCP has long shown that EXACTLY what it does is get fascinated with new shinies and go running after them to the detriment of players who took on the previous new thing. This kind of serial infidelity toward the customer base has long, long bothered me, and others.
I have had a deuce of a time getting friends to play EVE (I've failed, ultimately), not because they couldn't sit around with an avatar and pretend to blab on a space station, but because they notice within days the little things (bugs, inefficient features, bad UI, etc.) that steal play enjoyment and make them not subscribe.
So, thanks, CCP, for finally killing any level of caring I had. I have now unsubscribed my last account. I will not pay for your explorations into WoD/Incarna. I will not pay for spacebook. I would have paid $270 over the next 18 months (idling even) for a credible stab at polishing EVE, but since you don't want to do that, I won't.
Good luck with your business. You have some doozies to compete with, and the longer you sit with rust on your product, the more people will stop caring and just go get a new ride.
Bye. (You may not have my stuff.)
--SS
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