Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
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Posted - 2011.04.10 08:04:00 -
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Edited by: Vaerah Vahrokha on 10/04/2011 08:11:08
Edited by: Vaerah Vahrokha on 10/04/2011 08:06:20
 Originally by: Akita T
Speaking of which, I heard whispers of unconfirmed rumours that CCP actually lost a noticeable portion of their former testers not so long ago (fuzzy on the details as to why though), so basically, they're running with an understaffed and overworked QA team.
Would love to get an official denial of that, but appearances do lend a lot of credence to those rumours.
It would certainly explain a few things.
If you head over the ex CCP employees blog, you'll see ALL of them agreeing that CCP internal communication is their Achille's heel, that teams act like they live in a "void" with little interaction between them and several other curiosities.
I was considering asking for a job @CCP as Economist helper or even as coder but the wages seem horripilant and their pension system is not integrated or compatible with anything yet it requires an amount of (10 iirc) years just to make you eligible to get it.
Originally by: Akita T
Subscriber count graphs available in the QENs.
http://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/QEN/QEN_Q4-2010.pdf
On page 8 of 52.
And my mistake, when I said "didn't get steeper", what I meant to say was "it got less steep".
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7402/evesubscribers.jpg
Including rough linear approximation from the moment it became "somewhat popular".
Here's my MS Paint approximation about the next months in EvE's subscriptions market, even if CCP changed their ways and approach to quality (players discontent inertia):
As you can see the trend is exhausting (increasing volatility on the upper graph).
The yellow lines show the slope changes in the "123 zig zag", the cyan are some areas of support or resistance.
and getting more "whipsawing" which is another sign of trend exhaustion.
This trend will peak either at the current high or a next lower high (not drawn) then there will be a sharp drop down to the lower support.
It will break because we will be in summer (low subs period of the year) and an even sharper drop will happen.
After a rebounce (typical bottom W formation), IF CCP changed their ways, they will slowly begin rising up (red line).
If they stay as is, we'll see a further drop (blue line) to dynamic support and then who knows.
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