Solderan
Gallente Intergalactic Combined Technologies The Chamber of Commerce
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Posted - 2011.07.02 17:09:00 -
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Originally by: Mitchello Edited by: Mitchello on 02/07/2011 17:05:56 Commendable, very much so.
I still have concerns over the absence of the topic of convenience items, since that is both the commercial escape option as well as still suffering from unclarity about definitions which can confuse people along the road as they are introduced. But, it is a good step in the direction.
It speaks for CCP's values that they engaged in this. Yes, they had to due to commercial dependancy, but still, they could have just said "our way or the highway". And they didn't.
It saddens me that there is still a level of spin involved. On the newsletter topic, I can imagine how hard that hit as that got personal, completely understandable. But most of us know what kind of instrument such newsletters are for, particularly in this industry. They guide mindset, awareness, adoption of concepts are buzzwords and creative direction among employees. Especially in this industry.
But, you know, that is fine. One big lesson here, is that there has grown quite a distance between the parts of this huge and amazing triangle of CCP / EVE / Customers. That cuts in all ways, we have seen that, and I do hope that we all have seen that now.
As for the communicative challenges, yeah it's beyond clear now that the external and internal communicative hiccups have resulted in this mess. It is a shame, we saw last year another big issue with that and these matters really are entirely avoidable without painful lessons. But I hope that this gets picked up on, and capitalised on.
Why? Because Hilmar was right. EVE is an emergant dynamic. And we're all in it. Customers and CCP. Communication among us and between us is vital to the synergy and balance in growth, adoption and direction of EVE.
This cannot have been easy, respect.
I think convenience items will fall under the "grey" area they mentioned in the blog.
I'm mostly satisfied but I'd like some talk about dev funding for EVE and internet spaceships. When are the broken things being fixed? When are you going to fix 0.0? Lowsec? FW? Blaster re balances? Are we going to be seeing nothing but Dust/W.I.S. related updates? Are you going to be giving us Internet spaceship updates or more WOD/Dust beta tests.
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