Vaerah Vahrokha
Minmatar
Vahrokh Consulting
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Posted - 2011.08.22 06:34:00 -
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 Originally by: Ramalamadindong
Since Incarna hit the numbers of players have been dropping and it's not just due to the summer turndown. It looks like a whole bunch of people just stopped playing and cancelled their accounts. Where did all these people go? Most likely to other games. Other games that they would have not considered had it not been for the poor deployment of Incarna and the bugs it brought with it. I know that I wouldn't have cancelled 2 of my 3 accounts and wouldn't be playing Perpetuum and WOT if not for Incarna.
A lot of my friends from Eve have also migrated to these games and we all feel 'at home' there now. We have no plans to return and very few of us are talking about Eves winter expansion. Most of us are resigned to the fact that WiS is now the focus of CCPs efforts and know that the spaceship part has, more or less, reached the end of the road. I don't believe we will ever see true 'walking in stations' with 100's of characters on screen and vibrant stations with players milling about. It's all just a gimmick and marketing hype.
After seeing how badly Incarna was implemented I, and many like me, have no faith that CCP can deliver anything but broken, half finished features.
This and more.
EvE suffered an increasing backload of issues whose long term effects are showing off all together. It all started with utterly lackluster and 0.0 laggy Dominion, then the "18 months" and many other publisher debatable choices and communications, expecially the negative change in attitude.
From the relaxed, open minded relation with their customers we have seen preoccupying signals including: screwing the API dumps, removing game features (i.e. logs), pretending to demand to be paid by freeware 3rd party developers, imposing a totally "non EvE", "out if thin air for RL cash" shop and many, too many announcements that shown only greed, greed and more greed and bad consideration about the players.
The final straw: totally lackluster WiS that "show the door" to those who cannot run it (else the computer could melt) as only alternative to the 3D environment.
It's just too much and too together for the average player to withstand it.
BTW I am one of those players who got hurt a lot (freeware 3rd party developer AND heavy API user) and who were pushed to the last decision (to quit all 5 accounts) by their completely and utterly terrible petition system.
Horribad MMOs I play (with way smaller playerbase) grant solution to problems within 2-3 days, in EvE I had an issue answered after 1 month and after 2 months into it (escalations included), I got communicated nothing would be done.
Hence my choice to leave. EvE is a fantastic game but CCP does not deserve my money any more. It's not a "can't pay" issue (I still have 4 subs in other MMOs) but "show your feedback in the only place (their wallet) where it hurts" decision.
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