Master Flakattack
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.05.12 14:17:00 -
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Beofryn Sedorak wrote:You can make all the terrible jokes about "Wizrds in space" or "Emoting in stations", Fortunately for the rest of us, Your vocal minority doesn't by itself have any actual impact on the business decisions that CCP make. They make their decisions on things mature people evaluate, Product viability, Market reception, Demographic saturation (And a million other things). They have a TON of experience in making games, You can toss some of the mistakes they've made on a pole and parade them around, But you can't deny that CCP has succesfully made a game that makes you irrationally passionate about things to the point that you'll make a fool of yourself repeatedly with the same repetitious garbage over and over and over again all because someone else is interested in something that you're not. If you want to talk about what would be bad things for CCP to do, it would be to base their decisions on the opinions of vocal minority's and nay sayers instead of rational thought and evaluation of detailed market analysis that we as non CCP employees aren't privy to.
But in all honesty, If the idea of WiS annoys you so much, You probably shouldn't spend so much time engrossing yourself in it's community. Just sayin it's kind of like intentionally torturing yourself.
Even if WiS was added as just the tack-on social content it was planned to be, do you really think it would have made a difference? And for a space ship game like EVE, do you really think the people holding out for WiS before playing the game were going to stick around once they found out it was just for show? The best part of your entire post is when you say CCP is crunching the numbers and it's "fortunate for the rest of us"... do you not think that maybe that is the reason they canned your /dance emotes in the first place? Your entire argument works against you the minute you ask one simple question: what does WiS actually add to the game? User retention and other business considerations don't tend to like the answer "nothing".
And then Legion comes out and it's not "walking" but fighting in stations. Having capsuleers in civvie clothes wandering around a warzone makes no sense. And just like that, Legion doesn't change a thing either.
Perhaps someday CCP will develop valid gameplay around WiS and then capsuleers will have a reason to leave their ships. Until that day, just remember CCP canned your bar simulator for a reason. |