Ming Call
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Posted - 2011.02.22 12:59:00 -
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 Originally by: lost marble
People should hold their horses, the last uproar was about excellence and when CCP Zulu tried to write a blog to calm things down it blew the whole thing wide open. It then took several months for CCP to respond by changing their entire release schedule, putting team BFF on to fixing little things, increasing the number of dev blogs and adding a lot of small fixes to incursion.
Based on that I find all the "warrrrgh CCP have abandoned EVE" talk in this thread to be somewhat childish and ungrateful, it takes time for a corporation to react to their market and as we all know action is the only thing players will be happy with, a dev blog stating that they are working on the problem would not go down well.
If CCP are to tackle bots then hard decisions need to be made, should team BFF be taken off the 'little things' project to reverse engineer bot programs, or should it be team gridlock who are given the task? If GM's are to be tracking bots will new staff need hired or do you simply keep the same number of staff and accept that petitions will take longer?
Don't get me wrong I want to see the bot problem brought under control but don't expect CCP to say anything until after the plan is implemented, otherwise they are inviting vast quantities of forum rage about a lack of action.
The current situation with bots and plex is no doubt one of CCP's own making but they have in the past been very good about listening to players, it's just that players want things done yesterday so often don't see this.
Give them time, as someone else said taking this issue to the press is a pyrrhic victory, we would be hurting the very game we are trying to protect. In CCP land getting something done inside of 6 months is considered fast, lets at least see what they come up with before crying that the sky is falling.
I wasn't aware that botting was a brand new problem of the the last few months. Silly me. I thought it had been going on for years and years, without any significant measurable impact from CCP to put it right. I guess we are being unreasonable to assume that CCP would have considered a solution after such a short period of time. 
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