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Posted - 2011.02.18 17:28:00 -
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Looking great.
Ignore the whiners who don't want any "station delays," which will slow down their rate of isk grinding. It's pretty sad that people are so used to the grind that they no longer have any interest in the things that really make MMOGs fun and interesting--namely, character interactions, being part of an immersive game world, having diverse and multifaceted gameplay. They've become so blind that they are now content to spend their entire time in EVE clicking pictures of agents, running the exact same missions in the exact same way hundreds of times, over and over, spending their time worrying about whether they can complete the Blockade in 17 minutes as opposed to 17 minutes and 15 seconds, which would increase their isk/hour by 100k, and finding ways to shave a few nanoseconds from the time it takes to load into a station, accept a mission, and then exit.
It's really quite sad. And remember a couple things, CCP:
1. The people who whine the most are the people who are most addicted to the game. They are so addicted that the moment they perceive a slight change to their drug of choice--mission whoring--they start to cry like toddlers. Do you really think that these addicts will quit, as they are threatening to do, if Incarna forces them to spend a few extra minutes in station? Of course not. They are addicts. They will have some withdrawals, get over it, and soon enough become addicted to the changes themselves.
2. If anyone does actually quit, as they threaten to do, understand that the changes Incarna will bring are going to attract A LOT more new players to the game. Right now, many of the people interested in games like Everquest and WoW simply cannot understand why anyone would play a game like EvE. It's all a big mystery to them. Incarna, if you really do it right and design it as if it were in the game from the start, making it a part of the way all players interact with the game (even if that means load times and all the other extra baggage) it will do a lot to make the skeptics interested in your game.
Bravo on this move. Get it right and don't be fooled by the whiners. Sometimes it's best to let a baby have a good cry to help them grow up and get over it.
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