Originally by: Righteous Deeds

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Originally by: Bklyn 1

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Pann,

May I suggest that if you are attempting to salvage this situation, you had better take the keyboard away for Zulu. He's making your job much, much more difficult.

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Quoted for truth.

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Originally by: Rho1

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No more lies!
No more not giving a frack about playerbase opinions!
NO MORE SILENCE !!!!!
IT IS NOT ABOUT THE FRACKING MONOCLE, CAN'T YOU READ?!

We THE PEOPLE demand:

1. MT containing vanity items ONLY. That is the most important issue and the one that causes most rage. We want you to tell us that you will NOT sell standings, skills, ammo, or uber ships via NEX store. Don't lie to us. Don't tell us that what Soundwave wrote in your internal newsletter is just his "personal opinion" and it doesn't matter, It's an opinion of a lead game designer and we want CCP to ASSURE US THAT THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN.

2. CQ to be an option to enter from the old hangar view
a) because we aren't ALL here to play barbies in stations.
b) because implementation sux technically (fried PCs, more load on some PCs than full-maxed Crisis 2, just read the forums)
c) don't tell us it's our fault and lousy gear that you cannot code a 5by5 dark room which does not take 100% of gpu power on a modern machine.
d) image of a door is not an acceptable option, just put old hangar view back in.

3. Assurance, that you WILL NOT introduce in-game obstacles just to sell us the option to remove them, like you did with saving of ship fittings (move them to server, put limit of 50 fittings in place, get paid for increasing the limit? cunning).
a) remove the one obstacle already introduced, give us option to keep unlimited number of fittings locally like it was before.


Meet above demands, and the playerbase will cool down.
Don't act stupid and pretend that we rage about the price of monocle. That is the matter you want to explain to the media and the gaming industry, which are all laughing at you.
We will simply not buy it.

If you don't plan to comply to the above, tell us now, so we can stop investing our time and money in your service.

TL;DR:
1. No to selling advantages.
2. Ship spinning back.
3. No to introducing obstacles to sell option to remove them.

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Originally by: Zarcan

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FOR ****'S SAKE.

Are you all two-year-olds? You are all overreacting tremendously. Until they actually implement items and boosts that can be bought with AUR that provide real in-game advantages, then you all are *****ing about nothing. It's purely vanity at this point; a stupid move, yes. Agreed. But they aren't selling skills as of now, they aren't selling loyalty points yet; until they do, calm the **** down, the lot of you.

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CCP Games Anonymous in Reykjavik (Iceland): (Past Employee - 2011)

ôThe longer you stay the more it hurtsö

Pros
The Reykjavik office is very family friendly and youÆll often find children running around the office. During lunch it is also acceptable to bring in spouses and children. If you have a family and want to spend additional time with them this could be a way. ItÆs a place where anyone can get a start in the industry because turnover in departments like QA is still rather high. The way you talk matters more than your actual experience and you can take advantage of this during the interviews. The Atlanta office is a different place and doesnÆt suffer from the serious unprofessionalism as much as the Reykjavik office. The sad thing is that they too pay the price by seeing their work halted for years at a time to jump ship and bandage EVE up.

Cons
The lack of professionalism is mind blowing. Procedures that are common in other companies are not used here and considered a waste of time. There is no solid vision for EVE which leaves employees with no other option than to start work and find out what is wanted by trial and error, this is what CCP means with Agile development. Fun game play is not a priority, promises made to investors and aesthetics are. æIf it looks good then it is goodÆ is an often heard motto. CCP is committed to use technology in EVE as well as WoD and DUST, so certain features are made and used in EVE knowing they will not be fun, nor fit EVE and no one expects them to be appreciated by the playerbase. Alienating the playerbase of EVE further. Objections from employees who point this out are waved away. CCP does not take criticism well and often ignores retrospectives. Criticism is considered to be a negative attitude and is severely frowned upon. A lot of effort goes into maintaining a good morale with a lot of internal PR. After all itÆs cheaper to print posters than pay an average salary to employees. Several years now CCP has predicated insane subscriber goals that cannot be met. Naturally this is met with scepticism by the employees but it falls on deaf ears. The result is that the company is suffering because we cannot sustain the development of EVE, DUST and WOD. EVE is not creating enough revenue which means that solutions are sought, solutions that CCP was vehemently against a few years ago. Career progression is nonexistent unless you become friends with the right clique of people and use the right corporate buzzwords. Hard work is not something that will set you apart, most people work hard until they become so disillusioned as they realise it makes no difference and slack off. Combine this with the below average pay (CCP pays 30% to 50% less than other companies) and youÆll often hear a lot of frustration when work is discussed outside of the office by people who have been here for some time. The longer you stay the less you start to care about the game you develope, because no one else does.

Advice to Senior Management
Recruit very senior people from the games industry and actually listen to what they say. Stop believing your own hype.

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Originally by: Zoltar

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Just read the Dev Blog... Seriously, they still think its the prices in the shop we are angry about? lololololol. This is so stupid. Its the shop itself, get rid of Aurum. Is it that hard to see? Hurts to have my game ruined. **** you ccp and **** EVE Online.

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Originally by: Kara Liselle

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Originally by: Righteous Deeds

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Originally by: Bklyn 1

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Pann,

May I suggest that if you are attempting to salvage this situation, you had better take the keyboard away for Zulu. He's making your job much, much more difficult.

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Quoted for truth.

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+1

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Originally by: CCP Guard

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Nobody gets to ruin EVE but us!

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Originally by: Ded Moroz

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Reactivated the game a couple of weeks ago after 4 year absence because I have some extra time for gaming. And now I come back and see this disaster unfold. This is just disgusting.

Very quickly my renewed excitement about EVE is turning very sour. Real life $$ transactions for items of power??? dev blogs about $1000 jeans??? what the hell did i come back to? I just cancelled my subscription.

I think i will go and reactive and play my WoW account instead. At least they only charge RL $$ for silly stuff like sex changes.

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Originally by: SerialTurd

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Originally by: State Adler

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CCP is doomed. EVE was something very special in the sea of WoW clones, but the market is changing and CCP isn't successfully adapting. CCP seem desperate to find other ways of increasing revenue, which seems to suggest that either they're not doing so well financially, or that the people in charge are blindly trying to get on the MT bandwagon. The sad thing is that they don't seem to realise that the EVE community is not your typical MMO community.

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+1 This. I had that exact same thought. Either they are in financial trouble or they are just doing dumb stupid crap because everyone else is doing it. Since when has CCP started doing what everyone else is. Last I looked, EVE was the only game that did things differently and that's what made it awesome.

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Originally by: penifSMASH

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none of you whiny nerds are going to unsubscribe because you're just as addicted to it as the next guy so do us all a favor and step back from the prima donna melodramatics

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Originally by: Bklyn 1

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Pann,

May I suggest that if you are attempting to salvage this situation, you had better take the keyboard away for Zulu. He's making your job much, much more difficult.

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Originally by: penifSMASH

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none of you whiny nerds are going to unsubscribe because you're just as addicted to it as the next guy so do us all a favor and step back from the prima donna melodramatics

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Originally by: penifSMASH

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none of you whiny nerds are going to unsubscribe because you're just as addicted to it as the next guy so do us all a favor and step back from the prima donna melodramatics

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Originally by: Pat Morrison

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Originally by: Zoltar

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Just read the Dev Blog... Seriously, they still think its the prices in the shop we are angry about? lololololol. This is so stupid. Its the shop itself, get rid of Aurum. Is it that hard to see? Hurts to have my game ruined. **** you ccp and **** EVE Online.

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No, they know quite well what people are angry about, and they can see where it's going. The developers of this game may do some ill-advised things, but they're intelligent people.

However, they're owned by outside investors, and told what they will do. "Microtransactions" and "virtual goods" are hot buzzwords. A number of dying games are making a decent profit from them. The owners of CCP and their representative, Joseph Gallo (formerly of Citigroup), have set the strategic direction of the company. The devs do not have the option to disagree with game-altering in-game purchases, as it is the decreed direction of the company. Publicly disagreeing with the corporate policy is likely to be at the cost of termination of employment. Iceland's economy is in a pretty sorry state, and looking for another job right now is something to be avoided, though I'm sure the best at CCP are doing so. It's a pretty horrible place to be, and I do feel for the ones that haven't really bought into this.

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Dear investors,

We cannot pursue this line of business because it does not fit in EVE Online the way it does in other games. Unlike other games, EVE Online playerbase is in charge of the games own economy, and if we do as it was proposed the game as it has been so far will cease to be. We will alienate our so far loyal, intelligent player base and will be flooded by 10 to 15 year old from these-other-gamesÖ who will then start complaining that EVE is too hard, too cold and too unforgiving. Thus, the game will die.

We cannot implement game-changing virtual-store itens.

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Originally by: CCP Guard

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Nobody gets to ruin EVE but us!

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