Consortium Agent
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Posted - 2011.06.24 15:16:00 -
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 Originally by: CCP Zulu
What is going on is that we as a company saw the need, and this is coming from all third party developers, that they want to make some money
Ahem. One or two people wanting to sell iPhone/Mobile apps for real money *does not* constitute *all third party developers* requesting this capability. To my knowledge, none of the loyal guard of developers who work so tirelessly to provide services for Eve *want* to charge people RL money for them. You're blanket justification that the developer community cried out for this is a blatant lie. Not unlike many of the others you and your CCP brethren been passing down to us lately.
Originally by: CCP Zulu
or have the option to charge ISK for services that they are providing to the community.
Err... under your current EULA/TOS we *already have the option to charge ISK for services*. So, that a moot point.
Originally by: CCP Zulu
What we are trying to accomplish is building an environment where we can have as many people developing third party apps as possible while we still maintain a measure of control in how these people portray our IP and brand.
In other words... we want to ensure places like EveNews24 only puts out polished and sterilized content about our company. You GD third party developers keep telling the world how much we suck and don't listen to our players and we're decided the best way to combat this is to require everyone to be licensed so we can approve only the people who think we're hot **** and ban the people who want to be honest about our company. That's just bad press and we don't want the bad press that comes from the poor decisions we make as a company.
Originally by: CCP Zulu
Now, I feel that the blog that was put out was good in many aspects and we had our lawyers go over the contract to ensure that it is sound.
Nobody has questioned the legality of what CCP has proposed, we've only questioned the morality and ethics behind such a decision. We're sure the lawyer types will ensure the contract is 'sound' to CCP standards. The question becomes - does it pass mustard with the people who have been *giving your game free press, free advertising and making the game actually playable so you can continue to have a company*? So far that answer has been no.
Originally by: CCP Zulu
There were some nuances in there which the community called ębull****' on, and rightfully so.
We keep trying to tell CCP they have a loyal base of highly educated, highly intelligent players - but you're internal communications seem to indicate you believe we're all a pack of ill educated dumbasses whom are to be used as the golden geese we are and sucked dry of every penny you can possible get from us. Geed is good! Right, Gordo? So, of course we call bull**** when we see it. And lately we've all had to strap on giant sized hip waders to wallow through the muck and mire of the asshat decisions you're making.
Originally by: CCP Zulu
What we are going to do now is go back, factor that in to a new arrangement and try to come up with something which is more to our needs and more to community expectations at the end of summer.
I'm not clear how that poor excuse for a money grab could be any 'more to CCPs needs' and I'm not clear you really understand nor care about the community expectations. I've said it before and you've proven me right before - this will be swept under the rug until the end of the summer when it will be crammed down our throats regardless of if we like it or not. That is exactly CCP's MO on every other hot topic for the last two years - what makes you think you're little video is going to make us think otherwise, exactly?
You're in the middle of a PR nightmare of your own creation. Word in the gaming industry since Incarn'a release is CCP is a joke and more than one gaming journalist has predicted the downfall of CCP within the next 6 mos to a year. I, for one, agree with them. You've barked up too many wrong trees lately. Sad panda. :(
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