sinfulangel
H A V O C Against ALL Authorities
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Posted - 2010.07.16 20:40:00 -
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Originally by: Herschel Yamamoto So, from this, CCP runs 18 dev teams. Of those, full half are committed to Incarna, and seven of those nine are stolen from "other projects". If those "other projects" are Eve, then your comment that "the resource cost from Eve is very limited" is a hilarious lie. If that refers to WoD/Dust/some other unspecified future project, then I have to assume that all the teams for all of CCP's MMOs are in the count of 18, and given that exactly zero are working on any other projects, then I can't help but conclude that they're all borderline vapourware. The first one would **** me off immensely, because Incarna is in no way 3x as important as the rest of Eve combined, not even in terms of short-run dev cycle planning. The second wouldn't be as bad for me personally, but I suspect that the gaming press might be interested to know that you have a grand total of nobody working on your next two big, flashy publicly announced titles.
We have a further two teams committed to Spacebook and Planetville. I won't begrudge that, since my biggest complaint with both is a lack of depth(well, and Planetville's utterly obnoxious click-intense nature, but that's just because it chose to replace depth with busy work), but I can guarantee that this will lead to some pretty serious rage from the players.
Of the three who actually do work on internet spaceships, you have one working on art, which is cool and necessary, but not really what most people care about(except when a new Scorp model drops, ofc). Both of the others are working on PvE content. Again, I don't mind PvE content, and I think there's some cool things that can be done, especially if your third attempt at making people do group missions actually succeeds where L4's and L5's failed, but that's a pretty narrow part of the game. For literally everything else - industry, PvP balance, UI, POSes, the works - you have nobody. Nobody is working on fixing what's wrong with 90% of the game.
Seriously, this may be the worst attempt at damage control I've ever seen, and I watch RL politicians the world over. Yes, you're working on some stuff. Yes, you hire a PhD from a big school. No, that doesn't mean that you're doing the tenth part of what we expect from you. You basically just gave every ragepost for the last week numbers to back up their arguments. How does "CCP cares three times as much about Incarna as Eve itself!" sound as a slogan?
Well said.
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