Huo Lung
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Posted - 2011.06.26 01:03:00 -
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Edited by: Huo Lung on 26/06/2011 01:06:22
Kinda sad that this issue, of all things, is the topic my first forum poast. I'm generally content to let the sentiments of the community at large speak for me here, but I'll add my 0.2 ISK anyway. Incarna has been a misbegotten undertaking since day one. I doubt that even the sunny optimists here can't honestly deny that it's added very little to gameplay - essentially just a 3D closet environment which adds no original functionality and no roleplay value, either, given that other people cannot enter - and has led to a massive PR fallout due to the dubious Aurum/PLEX system and exorbitant 'microtransactions'. While I'm certainly no economist or business analyst, I suspect that the anticipated mass influx of avatar-oriented new players to whom CCP hopes to appeal will not really arrive.
I'm sure that many will hasten to point out that CCP has repeatedly stated that the Incarna that's live on TQ is not the final product and that the station environments are still in their infancy. This actually leads me to my next point; stop implementing unfinished content on Tranquility. Full stop. It's really as simple as that.
This title is positively littered with bugs and imbalances that have been awaiting correction for years. Not only that, but it also has a considerable amount of unfinished content that has in many cases seen no significant improvement or additions since it's release. Besides buffing their nos/neuts, Sleeper sites and wormhole space in general have not seen any changes or meaningful additions. Magnetometric sites (in k-space everywhere)are still for the most part utterly worthless. Factional warfare is quite stale and two-dimensional. T3s still cannot refit subsystems at POSes. Just the tip of the iceberg.
But at least I can walk around a little office in full 3D and use some snazzy holograms instead of the buttons on my NeoCom like the rest of the Luddites.
I won't even get into the assertions that EVE is being shoehorned into the use of certain technologies as a testbed for another upcoming CCP title except to say that it certainly seems plausible, given the dogged stubbornness with which the dev team has pushed Incarna.
I have two accounts which shut off tomorrow. While I wish the teams at CCP all the best and don't share quite the same degree of personal vitriol that some posters here have, I too have no intention of renewing my subscriptions unless CCP's corporate vision of EVE Online acknowledges and acts decisively upon the wishes of it's community and our elected representatives on the CSM. I'm quite aware that EVE is CCP's product and as such they have the right to do with it as they please, my subscriptions are maintained with my money, and I of course have the right to do with it as I please.
Two more stars wink out of New Eden. Your move, CCP.
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