Two Shots
Caldari
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2011.01.25 03:37:00 -
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Chiming in as someone who generally gives no f*cks about changes in games, I'll add my input.
Incarna will release some content. It won't be good content. It will be buggy content, like always. It won't necessarily be bad content, but some people will hate it and some people will love it. Most users will completely ignore it as much as they are able, and keep running Level 4 missions in Motsu. For me, I picked up EVE Online because it was Internet Spaceships. For the same reason, I picked up Star Trek Online. Neither one of them lived up to exactly what I thought they would be. Games tend not to do that, not because the developers have an elaborate conspiracy against the players but because it is human nature for people to focus on and wish for the things they'd like to see when presented with vague descriptions of things they're anticipating. Ya know, things like Internet video games.
For me, I probably won't actively like or dislike Incarna unless it forces me to change the way I presently play the game; then, I will dislike those elements of it. If, for example, I can no longer access the fitting service and repair service from the docking menu but must instead go through a bunch of session changes to exit my ship, exit my capsule, exit my living quarters, walk to a lift, ride the lift to Platform Whatever, enter the Fitting Service Office, talk to an NPC, and then reverse the process... that would bug me. If there's a bunch of stuff to do inside of a station that I don't have to deal with at all, ever, unless I want to do it... I'd be fine with it.
The moral of my post is that everyone whining about how Incarna may or may not turn out should just go ahead and prepare themselves for a disappointment. It will not be how you envision it, or how I envision it, or how the mow optimistic person envisions it, or how the most pessimistic person envisions it. It will be how CCP delivers it: "functional," with a lot of bugs and lag. It'll have stuff you won't care about; it'll have stuff you like; it'll have stuff you hate. It will be a thing. And if you don't like it, then the appropriate response is to either post in the Features & Suggestions sub-forum or stop feeding CCP money for a product you do not enjoy.
Two Shots
Official Goonswarm
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