Rui Morin
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Posted - 2011.06.24 19:00:00 -
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 Originally by: The Mittani
Originally by: Bagehi
Originally by: The Mittani
I'm late to the threadnaught because I was out drinking last night and then sleeping it off. Whoops.
Points:
*Making martyrs out of Helicity and Liang is an act of comic incompetence, mid-PR-disaster.
*Greed is Good is a typical example of CCP's absolutely awful messaging. The contents itself are fairly innocuous; the one guy mentioning selling ammo is just some mook, not a producer of consequence. All the same, they might as well have had an internal newsletter called "I WANT TO **** MY CUSTOMERS" as far as the messaging impact is concerned.
The timing of GiG leaking with the NeX opening is masterful on the part of the leakers and awful for CCP.
*I don't care about NeX prices. They can charge hundreds of dollars for sparkleponies and monocles and I don't give a rat's ass - I'm here for the spaceships.
My concerns are keeping microtransactions away from the combat gameplay and fighting for balance and an improved spaceship-on-spaceship experience. Lag, supercapital imbalance, iterative ship balance, all of these things matter far more to me than a store with clothes for a space barbie.
The prices on the NEX is what worries me. It gives the strong impression that the people making decisions have a disconnect with reality. I don't see anything I would pay money for, maybe there would be some kind of vanity item at some price point that I would think "meh, why not" at some point, but there is a complete disconnect with reality when CCP makes a pixel shirt that costs more than a RL shirt.
I just can't bring myself to give a crap about vanity items. People pay almost a thousand bucks to get a special tiger mount in WoW. I care about spaceships, since this is a spaceship game, not a dress-up game. They could literally charge 5000 bucks for a monocle and I wouldn't lift a finger to stop them. vOv
For me, the long knives come out if they start trying to mess with the gameplay itself with micros. Gold ammo, ships that are different from existing ships statswise, etc.
I too care nothing for the vanity items, however the issue I think was being expressed was that if they can get vanity item pricing that wrong how can we have faith in CCP having any business intelligence and making a similar f u c k up over something that actually is important (i.e. the space stuff).
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