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Posted - 2010.08.01 22:53:00 -
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Originally by: FatFreddy
Originally by: CCP Xhagen We believe that the CSM is an important tool or an instrument to increase the likelihood of the EVE community being as healthy as possible.
Military experts Some dudes are predicting the surge in "community health" to take merely 18 months+n.
He is correct however, and I do think he is honest in this belief. Let me put it this way, it is not the PRC Social Media marketing we get served in other places, nor is the comment subject to the usual CCP marketing "overexposure" challenge.
If anything, the CSM process - with all its flaws and issues and its highlighting of internal CCP challenges as a commercial organisation - is one of the aspects still in line with one of CCP's core company values: transparancy. This aside of its experimental nature, its evolution of role and purpose, etc.
All the crazy stuff aside that have happened since the Reykjavik sessions of this CSM, it is quite clear that as an instrument the CSM exists quite well as an instrument of channeling and focusing community communications, and sentiment. That this is a double edged blade, is something that speaks for itself - and that's not a bad thing, since the CSM even as an experiment prior to its stakeholder role (and even now as sociological observation point) has a wide variety of other current and potential uses. For all parties involved.
That being said, considering the CSM this round has managed to somehow let CCP demonstrate its own bottlenecks and differences in perspective, I do think it is fair to say that even within the current limitations and frustrations - as a process - the CSM has a definite value to many player perspectives.
But, I also think the time of experimentation is over with it. A player council like the CSM, it's been a few years of experimentation, sure, but those days are over. Just like Hilmar once said, "perception is reality". Simply out of that viewpoint, the expectation of the CSM by CCP to get to work within roles and terms signals that the experimentation phase is over. Nobody denies it is an evolutionary concept, and it will continue to evolve and grow and possibly even change. But, it's yet another case where the pressure point is once again with CCP. If this is to be serious, it is time to get to work, and CSM has already begun that work. Visibly, with accountability, with workflow and with clear communications and timelines.
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Posted - 2010.08.03 13:46:00 -
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oi!
get to work you tools
Stop stalking an honest player, seriously, I don't even do forums that much!
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