Srialia
Misfit Toys
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Posted - 2010.07.18 08:31:00 -
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 Originally by: CCP Explorer
Why not, be a part of the solution. Let me list the available programming positions in EVE Software (note that there are more positions available in EVE QA, EVE Game Design and Core Software):
I don't see, "Decision Maker" anywhere on that list. The people in charge of development priorities have made it abundantly clear that their main goal is to generate new accounts at any cost, rather than retain existing ones. So to that end you have a ton of people working on new shiny things, which will be released at various levels of completeness as fast as possible (which these days apparently means compressing the "testing" phase of development into as small a time frame as possible). At the end of the cycle you have at best a pale shadow of the shiny thing you envisioned, and at worse you introduce crippling bugs because you rolled out a half-finished, barely-tested feature.
Let me be clear. I don't believe this is a problem with the people actually working on the game. This is the executives or owners or whatever you want to call them, issuing proclamations from on high, and the developers going along with it in hopes that maybe one day they will be able to actually make their game great, instead of just a great concept with a terrible game built around it. If I'm wrong, if the programmers are the ones making the decisions, then you should be ashamed of yourselves.
You know what I like to do as a programmer? I like to make things that work, that meet a customer's needs and even exceed them. I take a great deal of enjoyment from seeing a problem and solving it, especially if I can solve it elegantly. I would love, love, to be a part of CCP and help realize the unparalleled potential that exists in this game and its philosophy. But your leadership would never let me do that. They would want me to bang out large quantities of half-finished garbage all day, something that would give me neither enjoyment nor fulfillment. I would get so depressed coming in to work every day, knowing how much better something could be if I were just allowed to get my hands on it, and at the same time knowing it would never happen.
If I were already working for you, I'm sure I would have changed my nickname to CCP Sisyphus by now.
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