Issler Dainze
Minmatar
Tadakastu-Obata Corporation
The Honda Accord
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Posted - 2011.07.01 21:41:00 -
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So my take on the whole thing. And before I do I want to go on the record as saying I like the indivuals I've met that work at CCP, they all mean well. I think this may be an example of the hive mind losing its grip on reality. I also am NOT leaving Eve in the near future so no you can't have my stuff.
CCP clearly plans to have MT supplied non-vanity items. These plans remain in place. Here is my reasoning.
If CCP had no plans for non vanity items via MT they would just have said clearly "hey, we were totally missunderstood, we WILL NEVER HAVE NON VANITY ITEMS VIA MT IN EVE!!!!" This would have likely come from the CEO himself. Since they can't say that as they must be planning that in some form so they needed to find some weasel words to protect the future of subscription levels and monuments in Jita.
As they discussed the player reaction with the CSM I believe they realized it was very likely the CSM would resign over this. That would be a huge PR dissaster. So they have rushed the CSM to Iceland to refine their spin on their commitment to non vanity items for MTs. They have succeeded via Jedi mind tricks, slight of hand demos of virtual vampire glamming and massive amounts of Icelandic adult beverage in crafing a sufficiently vague and misleading spin of their real plans that finally fooled the CSM.
The actual message is still being refined, this is the reason for the "legal and translation" dodge. If they weren't intending to spin this they could easily release the answer the players demand. "No, we are not ever going to have non-vanity MT items in game." That would address virtually everyone's main concern immediately. Since we aren't seeing such a simple an elegant solution to player unrest you have to assume there are massive shennigans in play.
So if you ask me this is what we can count on.
CCP is committed to what we will likely perceive as non-vanity items for MT in Eve.
CCP has refined messaging to make the claim that is not their plan. They have crafted some way to spin their plan as something "else" that will open up a wonderful world of chocolate bunnies in green fields in space and new weapons for expoding those very bunnies. Their message will contain a lot of distracting promises of space awesomeness based on best in class technologies (basically what we have heard from them for the last 3 years). Based on years of failure to deliver completed content or actually address major game play issues we know that these will be unrealized promises while CCP focuses on the new shiny of vampires and console kids.
CSM responses show so far that CCP can dazzle and confuse them. They can be bought. The promise of a player based oversight organization is a sham.
So I expect the response when it comes out will be finally wordcrafted in a manner that seems initially comprehensive and responsive but when truly parsed will essentially say "CCP will be doing whatever it wants to Eve regardless of the player feedback" and that "trends" in gaming involve microtransactions in a manner that can effect game play and that CCP is committed to that path to increase "the new player base".
Where will that leave us? Accept it or leave? Start recruiting members in corps and alliances based on net expendable RL income?
Or....
Accept that this is happening and realize that "play to win" has already been here in one form or another for a long time, that the effect of this will be no worse that the incomplete content and broken game mechanics we already choose to live with in Eve. The 'verse we know is changing and I don't think anyone, including CCP has any idea how this will all play out.
To quote my favorite cartoon character.
"Could be something good....... could be something bad..." and since CCP has pushed the shiny red button we'll just have to see which one it is!
Issler
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