Originally by: Victoria Stecker

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So CCP has this little letter that was supposed to remain internal and was made public and caused a mild ****storm, for entirely understandable reasons.

And CCP elected not to do anything about it when they had the opportunity, so the mild ****storm stopped being so mild. A good chunk of the community is ****ed off.

And here's why that's unnecessary: We don't know if they meant it. It's so entirely over the top that we'd probably laugh it off as satire if it weren't coming on the heels of a rather pitiful excuse for Incarna and the $60 monocle. Making everything that you have to really work for in the game available just by spending money? If you actually think that CCP is that foolish, you should have quit this game ages ago, not now.

So why was it written at all? It's a discussion strategy known as playing Devil's advocate. You have someone take the role of the opposition, and argue the unpopular side - regardless of whether they actually believe it. In all honesty, I think CCP Soundwave sucks at this - based on how absurd what he wrote is, it's a little to obvious that he doesn't actually believe it. Until he shows up and announces that he really does and that is in fact the direction he wants to take this game, there's absolutely no reason people should assume that it's true.

I mean, have you read it? It's basically saying, "Let's run a bulldozer through the sandbox in order to line our pockets." If it weren't right on the heels of the Incarna release, we'd be laughing at it for being a brilliant troll - and ****, CCP just trolled you all harder than HYRDA and Outbreak did, and they didn't even mean to.

So really. Until we're given some solid reason to believe that they actually intend to do all that **** (And no, the fact that it's in an internal communication likely for the purpose of sparking discussion doesn't make it so), relax a bit. Remember when they actually suggested Remaps for Plex? That didn't get a fraction of this kind of backlash, and they still canned the idea. They're not blind, they're not that stupid, they're not going to do what CCP Soundwave is suggesting.

What they will do is release mediocre patches that may or may not set your computer on fire. If you want to get mad at them, get mad about what they actually did, as opposed to what you mistakenly believe they might be planning to do.

And get CCP Soundwave some lessons in playing Devil's Advocate. This was like reading A Modest Proposal - which, ironically, people took seriously back then too.

tl;dr - they probably weren't serious, until we know that they are, chill.

Thanks.

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