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Posted - 2010.10.08 19:42:00 -
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Originally by: Vak'ran
Originally by: Elojs Thank you for advising me that unless I shell out an exhorbitant amount of money, I will be unable to continue playing Eve after next year, until I actually obtain a position that pays me a respectable salary. Over the past year, Eve has been about the only luxury I have managed to afford on a continuing basis. I am not going to speak to the resentments felt by many in the player community about what appears to them to be CCP's lack of responsiveness upon any issue that doesn't qualify as low-hanging fruit, or unusually profitable for CCP. I understand the difficulty in maintaining legacy drivers, and I do agree with it.
However, I would point out that if you wish to force your entire player base to use Eve's minimum requirements as the benchmark for their personal computer systems, you will lose a substantial portion of your player base. Currently, I run Eve on a 5 year old laptop that does not support Shader 3.0. I do not have the resources to upgrade at the present time, nor is it likely that such an upgrade will be possible until I replace my 20 year old automobile, among other expenses that must take higher priority. Therefore, I shall have to quit Eve until such time as I can again afford to play, when the expansion makes it no longer possible to play, on that day, I will bid Eve goodbye.
Congratulations to CCP on mastering at least the worst points of Western Capitalism. Coercion of your customer base is right up there with the monopolistic practices of another large software firm based outside of Silicon Valley.
Try to develop a path that doesn't effectively exclude your customer base, or compel them to replace hardware that is otherwise satisfactory in order to run a single application that is used only a few hours per week.
*Idjits*
Games are not the be all and end all of existence!
If you have a 5 year old laptop and do not have the funds to replace it at this time, you should also be aware of the inherent risk in buying a laptop. Portable computing comes at an added price, you could have bought 2 PC's of similar specs back then. A non-portable computer could also have been upgraded with a 25-euro/dollar investment in a new card. While this does not compare to current laptop prices, the argument that having a portable computer on your budget is silly stands. If you are bound by a portable computer for RL reasons, you are stuck between a rock and a hard place I¦m afraid, because you will be running into the added cost of such a computer in more than just gaming - what if it breaks?
With your unfortunate computer investment, you are a VERY small minority in the EVE player base. CCP is a business and they please a lot more of their customers by tweaking their time investments for quality rather than extremely broad support.
You are ofcourse entitled to voicing your disappointment, but saying that the developers are making a bad business decision or maintaining an evil business mentality for it is in bad style, imho.
QUOTED FOR TRUTH!
Also CCP, what's the chance of having AA without the need of using NHancer?
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