Amorlune
Gallente
The Scope
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Posted - 2011.06.25 07:52:00 -
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Lets face it Eve is a niche game with a small player base. The reasons its niche is because the sandbox appeals to only a small amount of players. This is not to say that the sandbox is a bad concept however there are several reasons as to why this even annoys players the most lets look at the history of Eve vs CCP marketing.
1. The Dev playing the game, after many claims by alliances and corporation that there were CCP employees playing in the game and even cheating (these people where perma banned) it finally blew over when the CCP employee was busted giving out Tech 2 blue prints to everybody
2. Many broken promises to fix the game
I. Factional warfare - it was promised as a way that casual players could get into the even PVP side of things, in the end it turned out to be a CCP warped fantasy where players were required to risk everything for measly results
II. COSMOS agents - Agents that were meant to deliver blue prints and rewards to those who risked it - the end results the same repetative mission running except in low sec for ganking fun
III. Numerous Sov Changes - You can see the CSM logs for this
IV. The CSM - Brought out because of Problem 1
V. The CSM fiasco - CSM resigning due to CCP (If I can remember this correctly)
VI. Level 5 Agents - Another CCP we want more players, that went wrong
VII. The Invention system to replace Tech 2 lottery (intially)
As one can see CCP has a history of promising a lot and delivering a badly implemented system, and just leaving a mess behind, generally players tolerated it because they could ignore it, people DO NOT PLAY EVE BECAUSE OF CONTENT, but rather because of what others players do. Sadly there is no content in Eve to speak of.
CCP is also overcomitted and stretched, by the following decisions:
1. CCP decides to Purchase White Wolf (dunno how much they spent on this)
2. CCP decides to make Dust 514
3. CCP decides to make a WoD MMO
Dust 514 a console only MMO, might of annoyed eve players but players were promised that DUST 514 was being developed by a different group in China.
In the CCP e-mails and PDF they state lack of revenue as generated by Eve to support their new Console MMO addiction and their development of the WOD MMO as the reasons to *milk* the eve players.
With all of the above and the history of CCP constant mismanagement, players have little faith in CCPs promises as this has been broken many times before.
People say that CCP wants to kick all the players out and get new ones in, unfortunatly this is the exact type of thinking that SONY got into trouble with SWG, sacrificing existing players with broken mechanics in the hope of attracting a larger base, this never works. It does irreparable damage to the reputation of the company, as Sony found out.
Even CCP's own ex-employees are annoyed at the company (http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-CCP-Games-RVW993686.htm) ... so yes there is a lot at stake now, and this is just the straw that broke the camels back
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