Voddick
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Posted - 2010.07.17 03:19:00 -
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OK, your points are valid. CCP IS in fact a company first; a company that apparently wants to grow and become a European version of Blizzard and have multiple blockbuster titles with a huge fan base.
*stay with me here*
Do WOW fans complain the Blizzard has a department developing Diablo III? Or do WarCraft 3 fans complain that StarCraft 2 took all the ôgoodö RTS game developers with them to that project? No, no they donÆt, for several reasons, the main being that WOW fans have no clue who the developers are; Blizzard doesnÆt post DEV blogs, and they certainly donÆt have a CSM that flies to Blizzard HQ to give feedback from the player base.
The bottom line is that a company like CCP can successfully walk and chew gum at the same time. Multiple projects doesnÆt mean that ôdeveloper Aö works on Dust from 0800-1200 and then Incarna from 1300-1700. It means they hire more people to scale to multiple projects (The new UK office for example, along with those in China and Atlanta). In businessùnot on a soap box hereùyou either grow or die. Stagnation will kill a business slowly from the inside. Look at the matrix online or other MMOÆs that were here and now gone. CCP isnÆt abandoning EVE. They are trying to add value and dynamic to it by developing DUST for consoles and having mercs blow your EVE **** up on planets--for lack of a better term.
As long as we have the CSM and CCP continues to support us through them we are in good shape. Bravo to Dierdra Vaal for holding CCP accountable; but the long term plans have already been set here people. The budgets have been drafted, the money is allocated, to reverse or change course now will be too costly for CCP. I DO believe however, that they will ôeventuallyö get to our concerns for Low Sec, Fleet lagùwhich is being workedùUI overhaul, PI overhaul, etc. These things take time. To reach their longer term goal of a new game, reaching additional demographics of gamers, and growing EVE Online itself this is the path they have chosen. Is it aggressive? Yes. Will it work? Who knows. ThatÆs for the CCP executives to call and be held accountable for. I for one donÆt think this is a bad path to be on as long as long standing bugs and CSM issues are addressed, resolved, and resources are allocated to fix ôold problems.ö
Vod
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