Originally by: Stitcher

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Edited by: Stitcher on 04/08/2010 14:49:06

Originally by: Malcanis

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This blacklash isn't just about fleet lag you know. That's probably the single biggest sub-issue, but there are hundreds of bugs in the backlog, which relate to every aspect of EVE. In addition to that there are almost 200 CSM approved proposals hanging in limbo, and again these relate to every aspect of EVE you can think of.

And CCP have told their officially appointed player reps that they will not even begin to look at one single proposal for 18 months. When the CSM asked them to just implement a couple of token, very low resource issues, just to show willing and to throw the playerbase a bone, they were given a flat refusal. "Not one inch", to use an appropriate EVE meme.

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So? Frankly, I think the CSM are a packy of uppity, pompous know-it-alls and I actually resent the idea of being "represented" by them.

I trust CCP to make their game. if that means choosing to assign resources to a project that they have decided is more important than what the CSM have decided is important... whose judgment do I trust more? the professional games designers, or fans who almost certainly aren't in full possession of all the facts, or the knowledge and experience necessary to correctly interpret said facts even if they did?

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That's what it's "costing" us. We've been flatly told that the rest of the game will remain stagnant while Incarna is developed.

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no, we've been flatly told that what the CSM want will remain stagnant while Incarna is developed. Given that I couldn't give a diseased rat's sphincter what the CSM want, this is a state of affairs I am perfectly happy with.

Quality assurance is an ongoing process with its own team. We can see evidence of it in action right now with stress tests on SiSi that are scheduled for tomorrow. Bug fixes and suchlike are introduced to the game on patch days. You watch - when the winter expansion comes out, there will be bug fixes. probably, when CCP actually know what's causing the lag and have a repair ready to go, it'll be the focus of a patch all on its own.

The CSM does not exist to dictate to CCP what they are supposed to be doing. They exist to act as the pipe through which information can flow both ways. They are failing spectacularly to perform that role.

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