Bob Niac
freelancers inc
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Posted - 2011.09.23 23:06:00 -
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Way I see .. I love EVE. Yes there is a lot of broken stuff. But guess what? I don't see or care about half of it. I take the CSM and other loud drums and derive what I will from it.
If you guys think that leaving the game in stasis just to fix some bugs or because your flavor of the moth ship doesn't work the way you want ... I would imagine you have another thing coming. You want a hell of a lot, you want it now, and you want it basically for free. Guess what? Life isn't all internet space ships. If you want to fix things that bad, then apply to CCP.
Let CCP figure out what's best for CCP. If making another MMO and devoting resources to it makes EVE a stronger brand .. then do it. If adding n feature to EVE makes it a more appealing game to its target audience's real life friends ... by all means. Because these are the things CCP has to do to GET the resources to fix the game.
I don't think I know much about the world. I wouldn't claim to either. But when I look at the capital invested solely on hardware... I cringe. Why? Because they literally poor hundreds of thousands of dollars on back-end and servers PER YEAR. Pardon my language but that **** ain't cheap. Plus they are looking into HPC and other hardware solutions to keep up with the demands we put on the nodes.
You want them to fix the code? Last I checked they have been doing so from the ground up for several expansions now. Unless they feel that re-coding the SOL node system in it's entirety is a good thing (last I heard this would take 12 -14 months or more) then that stays. There are many examples .. check the dev blogs. From what some of the suggestion from the community I have read .. some people are asking to make an entire new game. That just doesn't go well.
Shiny new textures? Check
Load balances issues? Getting there.
UI? Almost there.
Lag? 2000 people in one system? 1k on an RFed node with little lag?
Ok fix stuff .. fine. But don't fix what isn't broken. CSM is great, but at this point I think it may eventually be more harm then good. CCP might want to reconsider how they structure it, Too few people with too much power.
Step back and take a breath guys. There has been a lot of **** flung recently. And I think those who rant on the forum and those who have a direct line to CCP need to realize that they have a responsibility to not be complete asses about how they respond to events in EVE. It trickles down to the masses. And as I said before, there was was a lot of pounding on empty drums. Things were sorted, lies and half truths were revealed on both sides.
So yes fix the game. But please don't shoot yourself in the foot because the playerbase gets stagnant or bored.
Quick and cheap access to PVP, be it re-orginizing gate or adding arenas pr whatever. EVE is at its heart an awesome non-"core" game. So why are we striving to be in that core? WoW is dieing because they changed the game so much from the beginning that people are finding other avenues.
Whatever .. I have a feeling this is going to get shut down as a fanboi post or something... there is no point to go on. |