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Sergeant RL3
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Posted - 2011.06.24 07:58:00 -
[2191]
How does soundwave not understand why people dont like getting fleeced out of their money for an imaginary pair of pants?
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Aeronwen Carys
Empire of Dust
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Posted - 2011.06.24 07:58:00 -
[2192]
Originally by: Weeble Tauri
Originally by: Aeronwen Carys
THREAD NEEDS TO BE STICKIED CCP!! THREAD NEEDS TO BE STICKIED CCP!! THREAD NEEDS TO BE STICKIED CCP!! THREAD NEEDS TO BE STICKIED CCP!! THREAD NEEDS TO BE STICKIED CCP!! THREAD NEEDS TO BE STICKIED CCP!! THREAD NEEDS TO BE STICKIED CCP!! THREAD NEEDS TO BE STICKIED CCP!!
Stickied? This'll be at the top of the page for quite a while.
Except when I did this it was already halfway down the page. It needs to be stickied so everyone get's to see it.
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Zanderiene
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Posted - 2011.06.24 07:58:00 -
[2193]
My concerns are:
1. $'s for in game advantage, that happens and its the end of this game and I'd hate that.
2. CQ, should be optional and the old hanger restored permanently. Not everyone is thrilled by the prospect of Incarna and should not have it forced upon them especially when it is in many ways irrelevant to the core of the game.
3. Trust. We don't trust you any more, sad but true.
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knobber Jobbler
Holding Inc.
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:00:00 -
[2194]
The store prices are bad but you've still not been proactive enough about botting. You can go down to geminate right now and see people botting.
Sort your **** out ccp.
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Isis Soryu
Caldari Universitas Interimo Research
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:01:00 -
[2195]
Originally by: Android Mindslave
Originally by: Hai Boiz I'd just like to say thank you, CCP Pann, for having the courage to step out in front of this unruly mob.
I look forward to this blowing over and getting settled into my new captain's quarters. It's a little sparse right now, but I think I will enjoy sprucing it up as new items become available in that special shop.
This is going to be so much fun as new things come into stations. I can't wait for the day I proudly cut the ribbon on my very own salon. Half price for all CCP characters on the full makeover.
See you then :)
I think you are missing the part where all the rage is about CCP getting ready to sell pay to win magic spaceship bullets in their store inside a game where you already have to pay a sub to play.
LOL, but the CQ is :AWESOME:
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War Fairy
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:01:00 -
[2196]
One of the little things unfixed that drives me nuts.
Role management window in the Corp Tab. There is no horizontal scroll bar. There are more roles than can fit on my window.
But it's ok, I can watch a TV on a couch now.
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DeadDuck
Amarr Cutting Edge Incorporated RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:03:00 -
[2197]
Originally by: War Fairy
I did not truly see however, why CCP was driven for this.
Look around your CQ. Your CQ, and ambulation in general, is merely a vehicle for them to drive their micro transactions.
Now is clear what they wanted to do from the beginning. They forget however that their customer base paid and is expecting for a Internet Spaceship game not for Afterlife in Space. Their costumer base choose to subscribe a Internet Space ship Game and NOT for Afterlife.
Never thought of saying this but the more I read that newsletter the more I'm thinking on quitting the game, is that simple. After 6 Years we have come to this. If nothing is made very soon it's bye bye.
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Vaerah Vahrokha
Minmatar Vahrokh Consulting
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:04:00 -
[2198]
Edited by: Vaerah Vahrokha on 24/06/2011 08:04:23
Originally by: CCP Manifest
The designs we will implement in game will not **** over the sandbox.
And who guarantees us that?
This is the problem when you lose trust and tell lies: you are seen as a liar forever.
Also you had the EASY WAY to introduce MT in a EvE style: sell BPCs for Aurum and let us PLAY EVE LIKE IT'S MEANT TO.
But no, you just had to introduce hideously looking, expensive and ignoramus items no one gives a ***** about.
Manufacturing a monocle with aurum BPC + PI materials = EvE.
Buying out of nowhere crappy expensive and badly designed items = "new" CCP.
The rot has percolated down but it starts from the top position and you know that.
Auditing | Research | 3rd Party | Collateral Holding | EvE RL Charity |
Nuhm DeAra
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:04:00 -
[2199]
Originally by: DeadDuck
Originally by: War Fairy
I did not truly see however, why CCP was driven for this.
Look around your CQ. Your CQ, and ambulation in general, is merely a vehicle for them to drive their micro transactions.
Now is clear what they wanted to do from the beginning. They forget however that their customer base paid and is expecting for a Internet Spaceship game not for Afterlife in Space. Their costumer base choose to subscribe a Internet Space ship Game and NOT for Afterlife.
Never thought of saying this but the more I read that newsletter the more I'm thinking on quitting the game, is that simple. After 6 Years we have come to this. If nothing is made very soon it's bye bye.
Again and again, this is not an Internet Space ship game. Get that through your face.
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Gouzu Kho
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:04:00 -
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on CQ and performance: I personally dont have any problems. I both like the CQ and it runs well on my PC.
On the AUR prices: atm its a ridiculous price for meaningless items, it doesn't impact me at all so, imo, if it was just about pricing, it would have been a much more civil (and probably amusing) discussion to have in order to come at a reasonable price for both parties. But that is not the crux of the matter.
The real deal is about the newsletter and the impression I and many other players get from it that influential CCP devs want to push MT for gameplay items. To me (and my brother) this would be an immediat deal-breaker. To abuse the golf analogy in the newsletter a bit: they are suggesting that players get to pay a little extra at the start of a round so they can remove a few strokes at the end of it. I trust its obvious why I don't want EVE to go that route.
I have to admit this whole episode feels a bit like a punch to the gut for me. Its hard to feel anything but disappointment about eve atm and I think I need a little break.
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Alexis Sachs
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:05:00 -
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Originally by: War Fairy One of the little things unfixed that drives me nuts.
Role management window in the Corp Tab. There is no horizontal scroll bar. There are more roles than can fit on my window.
But it's ok, I can watch a TV on a couch now.
Hey don't knock it. That TV keeps you in the know. Such as... CONCORD has no patience for you if your license is expired. Buy PLEX today! And did you know, that there is some agent 35 jumps away that would like to get you started on a new career? Also, the rifter is fing amazing! And lastly, in EVE, there are in fact bad guys who might try to shoot you - watch out!
Meh, I'm getting tired and becoming an ass. I really don't care if the TV is loved or not. I choose to ignore it.
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OmegaZeda
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:05:00 -
[2202]
DON'T F**K YOUR CUSTOMERS... This should not be a difficult concept for any business that wants to stay in business.
Like many here I play/played many other games, specifically mmorpgs. I played WoW for 3 long years and one of the reasons for me quitting was when Blizzard implemented a cash shop for vanity items. It was ******ed to see people throwing $10-25 at a pet or mount. Luckily Bliz knew better than to put armor sets on sale. They also nerfed the hell out of everything we long time players had ground for in the interest of rapid new player growth. To bad they lost a long time subscriber for every lich-baby they gained. (notice they're not gaining a million subscribers per year anymore).
Allods online. A free to play WoW style game I liked to play as well. Like many FREE to play games they use the cash shop as their sole source of income. Most of these games provide minor items like vanity clothes and the only real game effecting item being a bag or bank expansion. Then Allods decided to lock out the last 10 levels and require people to one time buy a quest item for real cash to unlock them... Literally overnight they lost 1/2 their player base and have never recovered.
Now I play Eve and I liked it... (past tense) You first cripple most of my ability to make money as a passive player of a few hours a night a few nights a week by removing the havens and sanctums. Forcing me to use my high sec carebear alt to run missions instead of shooting people in the face in null sec since I need to replace maelstrom somehow. Then I log on to read the latest bulls**t slap in the face your backhanding your customers with...
You know CCP. I've also been playing Black Prophecy since closed beta and it's actually a really good game similar to Eve in many ways with an interesting action combat style AND it's free to play...
Do not make me take my $30/mo elsewhere.
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Phuckknuts
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:06:00 -
[2203]
I have the upmost faith that CCP will continue to do whats best for them and their investors. As a business should.
It's just a shame it doesn't tie in with what the customer want.
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Krelian Lann
Caldari The Zohar Project
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:06:00 -
[2204]
Originally by: Nuhm DeAra
Originally by: DeadDuck
Originally by: War Fairy
I did not truly see however, why CCP was driven for this.
Look around your CQ. Your CQ, and ambulation in general, is merely a vehicle for them to drive their micro transactions.
Now is clear what they wanted to do from the beginning. They forget however that their customer base paid and is expecting for a Internet Spaceship game not for Afterlife in Space. Their costumer base choose to subscribe a Internet Space ship Game and NOT for Afterlife.
Never thought of saying this but the more I read that newsletter the more I'm thinking on quitting the game, is that simple. After 6 Years we have come to this. If nothing is made very soon it's bye bye.
Again and again, this is not an Internet Space ship game. Get that through your face.
You're hot, but please shut up.
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Joahna Gramer
Gallente Advanced Laser Technologies Confederate Economic Enterprises
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:07:00 -
[2205]
Originally by: Jade Constantine Sure when you have been playing Eve as long as we have you learn to take the rough with the smooth but you do so with the general feeling that CCP developers understand and ôgetö what makes Eve great û and thatÆs the problem now. This internal newsletter (if real) shows that one of the leading developers does not ôget eveö does not care about eve, and simply sees eve as a cash cow to be milked ferociously to fund other projects. This is about keeping the golden goose of eve subscriptions (on a drip feed if necessary) while chasing and grubbing every little loose cent he can from the player base.
Let me give you a couple of examples of how this can and does (and has already) impacted our enjoyment of this game:
1. The Captains Quarters û itÆs not gameplay its a display cabinet for vanity items. And the price of this display cabinet for you and I is that multi-client performance in stations is now terrible û if you have a bad graphic card itÆs a jerk fest û if you have a decent graphics card itÆs heat-fest. I can run 3-4 clients with CQÆs turned on û I can run it smoothly û but do I want to? Hell no because my Gtx 580 sounds like its melting my motherboard now! So I need to turn off the CQÆs on multiple accounts and as a result have more limited functionality on those accounts and an ugly wallpaper. No more station environment, no more clicking on my ship to open cargo hold, no more dragging ship to the hanger to board it. The delivery of the CQ vanity item display case has impacted my gameplay.
CCP could have made it optional and given us the option of keeping the old hanger view and added a ôdisembark shipö option to the UI but ôoh noö to do that would have meant we werenÆt being forced to look the vanity display case that marketing insisted must be front and centre if weÆre to even think about buying these ridiculously overpriced items from the Noble store.
2. If you read the newsletter youÆll see reference to saved fitting slots û and I donÆt know about you Verone but in JF weÆve run out of saved corp ship fittings. We want CCP to up the limit but is that really going to happen while the ôbiz-devsö talk honeyed words about how to squeeze extra income from players for such ôminor upgrades.ö? How long till we pay aurum for extra corp standing slots? For wardec options? For a usable corp management screen?
3. And who develops these vanity items? Yes thats right its Eve artists and developers whose salary we pay with our subscriptions. Given the choice wouldnÆt you rather have engine trails and flashy cyno effect for all players rather than a bunch of overpriced tat in the Aur store for a fleeced few?
Because that is precisely the compromise being made here -> CCP using our subs money to pay for vanity item production they want to sell back to us for greedy prices and it is something you SHOULD get mad about.
So hereÆs the thing.
The time to fight for the game we love is not in six months time when these concepts have bedded down and CCP is feeling bold enough to start selling Noble Faction ammo and +9 implants. The time to fight is now. Because this newsletter embodies everything that many of us feared but didnÆt want to believe CCP were becoming capable of. It is a massive betrayal of the compact we shared as players and developers of this game and indicates that CCP is preparing to leap down a very dark and deep path of self-immolation in the months to come.
I donÆt want to see Eve Online die Verone. That sounds dramatic I know, but gameworlds die when the dreams and visions are extinguished and that can happen through a succession of bad ideas foisted on a community by people who really donÆt have much of a clue in business.
QFT
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Isis Soryu
Caldari Universitas Interimo Research
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:07:00 -
[2206]
Originally by: *****knuts I have the upmost faith that CCP will continue to do whats best for them and their investors. As a business should.
It's just a shame it doesn't tie in with what the customer want.
I, too, have the utmost faith in CCP to try and **** us with MT.
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Atanalvi Mernher
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:07:00 -
[2207]
Originally by: *****knuts I have the upmost faith that CCP will continue to do whats best for them and their investors. As a business should.
It's just a shame it doesn't tie in with what the customer want.
so then...
is it really good for the investors then?
Think about it.
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Khamal Jolstien
Caldari Sick Tight BricK sQuAD.
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:07:00 -
[2208]
Originally by: Nuhm DeAra
Originally by: DeadDuck
Originally by: War Fairy
I did not truly see however, why CCP was driven for this.
Look around your CQ. Your CQ, and ambulation in general, is merely a vehicle for them to drive their micro transactions.
Now is clear what they wanted to do from the beginning. They forget however that their customer base paid and is expecting for a Internet Spaceship game not for Afterlife in Space. Their costumer base choose to subscribe a Internet Space ship Game and NOT for Afterlife.
Never thought of saying this but the more I read that newsletter the more I'm thinking on quitting the game, is that simple. After 6 Years we have come to this. If nothing is made very soon it's bye bye.
Again and again, this is not an Internet Space ship game. Get that through your face.
Yes it is.
Originally by: McKinlay When you get on the batphone and the only people left in the phone book are Aeternus and BLAST it might be time to hang up.
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Voltaire Leriel
BIG Gentlemen's Agreement
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:07:00 -
[2209]
I'm just waiting for them to explain this whole thing to us better. Yes, patronize us some more.
<sarcasm>It's not that we don't like it, it's that we don't understand it.</sarcasm> ______________________ BIG Lottery
BIG is Recruiting
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Danatious
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:08:00 -
[2210]
I really hope that WoD (Twilight online) flops dramatically, and people just don't even buy sub accounts (apart from the normal RMT bots in hope), or you mess up the server hosting and get it pulled down like Jumpget Evolution lol.
There's one thing about karma, it'll get you back. There's one thing about me and the rest of the EVE community, we're patient. Just bare that in mind.
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Constantinus Maximus
Paxian Expeditionary Force
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:08:00 -
[2211]
Originally by: knobber Jobbler The store prices are bad but you've still not been proactive enough about botting. You can go down to geminate right now and see people botting.
Sort your **** out ccp.
This is the plan.
Who needs users when you have massive money laundering operation with the ability to write all the fake recipes you like.
Search up who owns CCP.
His name was John Turbefield! Truth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4YHvtEJgBc Best brief on the details. FREE HELICITY |
Nadarius Chrome
Celestial Horizon Corp.
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:08:00 -
[2212]
So I'll just be doing something. Travelling, PI, whatever. And I dock or close the window, and be looking at this f'ing door, and go "Oh that's right...." and get all ****ed off again. |
Louis deGuerre
Gallente Malevolence. Imperial 0rder
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:08:00 -
[2213]
Edited by: Louis deGuerre on 24/06/2011 08:10:34
Originally by: CCP Pann ...As I see it, the chief complaint is regarding the high cost of goods in the Noble Market. Second, many people are unhappy about the CaptainÆs Quarters. Third, there are some performance issues with Incarna.
I don't care about the Noble Market, no one is forcing me to buy vanity stuff (and they shouldn't if they want me to keep playing). I think you're making yourself a laughing stock with these prices but that is your problem, not mine.
The Captain's Quarters are a cool feature, but sitting alone on the couch will get old fast. I think it has potential and could go places if we ever get WIS. At the moment it is unplayable for me however.
The performance issues are very bad. Several things are apparent. Bad QA, the hardware problems are so widespread this reflects very badly on you as a company trying to deliver a good product. I can't run it at decent specs without burning out my machine, so now I'm forced to look at a door and I can't tell easily what ship I'm in. My functionality and enjoyment has decreased. This makes me
The looming threat of 'enforced CQ' will force me to lower all display settings to the minimal values as they are the same for space and CQ, so my primary experience (pewpew in space) will become absymal because I have to turn down all settings for a feature that is not working right. You must have been aware of the heavy difference of load between CQ and space, so this is badly implemented, again reflecting badly on you.
I am annoyed at the way this badly tested (again) and implemented (again) feature is shoved down out throats. I love the game, but your customers don't like to be pushed around like this. We are not QA, we're customers.
This all said, for now the game is still playable, and I do recognize it is being improved all the time (the recent scanning changes are a godsend for example). I am concerned about the direction this game is going. There is a limit to how much money can be squeezed out of me before I give up. I hope your management realizes this.
----- Malevolence. is recruiting. Dive into the world of 0.0 !
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Napoleon Baleine
Interstellar Exploration Initiative
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:09:00 -
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Originally by: Joahna Gramer
Originally by: Jade Constantine Sure when you have been playing Eve as long as we have you learn to take the rough with the smooth but you do so with the general feeling that CCP developers understand and ôgetö what makes Eve great û and thatÆs the problem now. This internal newsletter (if real) shows that one of the leading developers does not ôget eveö does not care about eve, and simply sees eve as a cash cow to be milked ferociously to fund other projects. This is about keeping the golden goose of eve subscriptions (on a drip feed if necessary) while chasing and grubbing every little loose cent he can from the player base.
Let me give you a couple of examples of how this can and does (and has already) impacted our enjoyment of this game:
1. The Captains Quarters û itÆs not gameplay its a display cabinet for vanity items. And the price of this display cabinet for you and I is that multi-client performance in stations is now terrible û if you have a bad graphic card itÆs a jerk fest û if you have a decent graphics card itÆs heat-fest. I can run 3-4 clients with CQÆs turned on û I can run it smoothly û but do I want to? Hell no because my Gtx 580 sounds like its melting my motherboard now! So I need to turn off the CQÆs on multiple accounts and as a result have more limited functionality on those accounts and an ugly wallpaper. No more station environment, no more clicking on my ship to open cargo hold, no more dragging ship to the hanger to board it. The delivery of the CQ vanity item display case has impacted my gameplay.
CCP could have made it optional and given us the option of keeping the old hanger view and added a ôdisembark shipö option to the UI but ôoh noö to do that would have meant we werenÆt being forced to look the vanity display case that marketing insisted must be front and centre if weÆre to even think about buying these ridiculously overpriced items from the Noble store.
2. If you read the newsletter youÆll see reference to saved fitting slots û and I donÆt know about you Verone but in JF weÆve run out of saved corp ship fittings. We want CCP to up the limit but is that really going to happen while the ôbiz-devsö talk honeyed words about how to squeeze extra income from players for such ôminor upgrades.ö? How long till we pay aurum for extra corp standing slots? For wardec options? For a usable corp management screen?
3. And who develops these vanity items? Yes thats right its Eve artists and developers whose salary we pay with our subscriptions. Given the choice wouldnÆt you rather have engine trails and flashy cyno effect for all players rather than a bunch of overpriced tat in the Aur store for a fleeced few?
Because that is precisely the compromise being made here -> CCP using our subs money to pay for vanity item production they want to sell back to us for greedy prices and it is something you SHOULD get mad about.
So hereÆs the thing.
The time to fight for the game we love is not in six months time when these concepts have bedded down and CCP is feeling bold enough to start selling Noble Faction ammo and +9 implants. The time to fight is now. Because this newsletter embodies everything that many of us feared but didnÆt want to believe CCP were becoming capable of. It is a massive betrayal of the compact we shared as players and developers of this game and indicates that CCP is preparing to leap down a very dark and deep path of self-immolation in the months to come.
I donÆt want to see Eve Online die Verone. That sounds dramatic I know, but gameworlds die when the dreams and visions are extinguished and that can happen through a succession of bad ideas foisted on a community by people who really donÆt have much of a clue in business.
QFT
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Strider Hiryu
Kangaroos With Frickin Lazerbeams The KWFL Republic
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:10:00 -
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Originally by: Zanderiene My concerns are:
1. $'s for in game advantage, that happens and its the end of this game and I'd hate that.
2. CQ, should be optional and the old hanger restored permanently. Not everyone is thrilled by the prospect of Incarna and should not have it forced upon them especially when it is in many ways irrelevant to the core of the game.
3. Trust. We don't trust you any more, sad but true.
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Thamul
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:10:00 -
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This is all I feel will happen now.
CCP is going to tell us they are backpedaling from their newsletter. This will be a LIE.
They will guarantee us no game changing MT. They will later do it, as their promise is a LIE.
The bottom line is that from what I can tell, CCP's current opinion of us is that they can tell us what we need to hear, then ignore us, do it, and apologize later while getting new players to replace the old players.
The old players in this game may be bitter, but we help hold this game together. People like Chribba and others have connections that help make this game possible. If the vets quit, or even a good section of them do, this game will be in some trouble.
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Talsha Talamar
Amarr Nebula Rasa Holdings Nebula Rasa
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:10:00 -
[2217]
Edited by: Talsha Talamar on 24/06/2011 08:11:15
Originally by: Vaerah Vahrokha Edited by: Vaerah Vahrokha on 24/06/2011 08:04:23
Originally by: CCP Manifest
The designs we will implement in game will not **** over the sandbox.
And who guarantees us that?
Indeed.
There is the need for a clear commitment. Have the CEO step forward and deliver a statement in a clear and concinse language. Then enact the required changes in game and in CCPs business behaviour.
Chain Legal to a pole and gag them if you need to.
If you employ superficial damage control, this situation will be prolonged and much more importantly will repeat itself worse than ever.
You cannot spin this, you have to solve it.
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Nullity
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:11:00 -
[2218]
Edited by: Nullity on 24/06/2011 08:11:01
Originally by: Nadarius Chrome So I'll just be doing something. Travelling, PI, whatever. And I dock or close the window, and be looking at this f'ing door, and go "Oh that's right...." and get all ****ed off again.
I still try to spin it. But don't worry, we can still spin our monocle previews.
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Pace eGuerra
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:11:00 -
[2219]
Edited by: Pace eGuerra on 24/06/2011 08:15:13 Seeing as CCP are actually reading this thread I thought I'd throw this in.
I think the core problem with the vanity items you are offering is that they have no relationship to the concept of esteem in EVE. For example, I wouldn't be impressed by a toon with an $80 monocle in their virtual eye if I happened to have a $4,500 watch on my real wrist, or a flaming nice car in my garage, or the best gaming rig on the market. The guy with the $80 monocle would just a complete ****er.
What matters in EVE is character development. If you offered pilots of T2 and T3 ships the opportunity to show off their skills levels through exclusive uniforms then we might bite. But only if the uniforms are cheap (i.e. a few dollars and no more).
For example, I mostly fly Interceptors and I happen to have really good skills in that area. I'm close to having all of the Elite certificates for the Ares. So if you had a series of uniforms that could be bought and sold by anybody but only worn by people with the skills to match then there would be a level of prestige there.
if the store had Gallente Interceptor Pilot 3rd Class uniforms which could only be worn by toons with the recommended certificates for the Ares (have a different uniform for the other class of Interceptor as it has a different role). There would also be a Gallente Interceptor Pilot 2nd Class uniform for toons who have all Ares certificates at Advanced, and Gallente Interceptor Pilot 1st Class for those who have all Ares certificates at Elite level.
It would be pretty simple to do; 3rd, 2nd and 1st would simply have different colours (green, navy blue, and black, for example) and the decoration might come in white, gold and platinum. You get the idea.
By tying the vanity items to in-game achievements you would actually create real vanity items. The Uber uniform then would become the racial Capital Pilot 1st class which could only be worn by people with racial capital ship certificates at Elite.
Add to this the fact that they are perishable, sell them cheap and ensure that you have a direct flow of real $ to each sale and you might get somewhere.
Scale the above idea across all T2 and T3 ships across all races and that would create a level of vanity that an $80 monocle can never have.
In addition, this adds to game play. If I were to prance around a station in an Gallente Interceptor Pilot 1st class uniform and somebody later encounters me in a fleet in an Ares they might then have an idea that I should probably be the first Interceptor to take off the field... of course I could counter that by only ever wearing Gallente Miner Standard uniforms in public. lol
You could extend the concept to sec status so that only toons with -10 sec status can wear the bad ass scary rough motherflump leather jacket or the +10 sec status can only wear the David Beckham metrosexual smooth as buggery nice boy outfit. Or whatever. If you actually tracked skills you could even modify some of the decorations based on a player's kill ranking or average number of kills in the past 30 days.
Yes, the above is just a thought but I'd say it was a hell of lot more compatible with the game than selling monocles that have no bearing on the game for prices that have no place in the game. |
Parleion
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:11:00 -
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Originally by: *****knuts I have the upmost faith that CCP will continue to do whats best for them and their investors. As a business should.
It's just a shame it doesn't tie in with what the customer want.
Doing what the customer wants IS what's best for them and their investors. If you don't make something the customers want, you lose those customers. If you treat your customers like crap (I'm looking at you any company with an automated phone system and a hold time of greater than one minute), you lose those customers. If you lie to your customers, you lose those customers.
What they are doing is not what's best for them and their investors. In fact, it's one of the worst things they could do.
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