Cade Windstalker
Caldari
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Posted - 2011.06.26 19:54:00 -
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 Originally by: Xander Hunt
Originally by: Malka Badi'a
EVE Community. I am disappointed in how little faith you had in a company that some of you have been with for seven years, and how you allowed your groupthink to overpower your ability to use formal logic and deduction regarding what may be opinion and what may be debate. But, you have my undying respect for showing passion, and love, for the game that many of us hold dear.
Its RW corporate propaganda that we're seeing here, not Zulu or Zinfadel (or however you spell his name) that are doing this DIRECTLY. (I admit, I posted that I wanted Zinfadel fired, but only because I hate the kind of job he's in, and how he tries to execute it so well. Its not about him, its about how things have changed in the past 6 months alone) I have little to no faith in *ANY* company (including the one I work for) that has investors, as investors want nothing more than more money. With all seriousness, they'll push the boundries to get monies in, and when it dries up, walk away knowing they made a profit. Its taken a few years for CCP to get to the point where investors are ... instigating and trying to enforce ideas to get more RW monies out of the system, be it due to borrowing for dev'n of Dust or whatever. Monetary-Investors suck the life out of a game (or anything) faster than a shop-vac sucks up water. Investors have passion for money, not passion for the game and its mechanics.
The only investors I have any patience for are the people who invest non-monetary ideals into something, such as passion, wisdom, intelligence, time, ideas, love, hate, interest. Its no wonder Jita and Amarr are on fire as we, the players, are so invested in this game, we don't want to see the mechanics change. We, the players, are investors as well, CCP. Money may make things work, but we're what makes all of this worth while, not money.
I'm sorry but that's a cynical and horribly misdirected view point. If you want to rage about investors then do that, but CCP as a company has proven that they want to make good games and this community keeps kicking them in the nuts and saying that they should stop bending over and look them in the eye. We take the same caution and paranoia that we apply to in-game contracts and agreements and then point it at CCP and whine "you didn't cover minor details x, y, and z...".
By the way, about those investors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCP_Games
Founders and Employees are the principal share holders meaning that the company is employee owned.
I'd also like to point out that you don't get into game developement for the money. No, really, you don't. You certainly don't get into it for the money and then go work for CCP, you work for EA or Activision at one of their studios that turns out a Madden game or "generic shooter number the next one" every nine to 18 months.
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