Lygos
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Posted - 2005.03.19 05:36:00 -
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The thing that mostly annoys me is that CCP refuses to tell us what development objectives they have given up. We are still privy to images and concepts from 2003. So long as that carrot is waved in front of people like myself, we'll never remove our sub until we are forcibly evicted.
That probably makes your typical corporate CEO happy, but I kinda figured anyone creative enough to design a virtual world like this has a bit more soul.
If you create an environment like this, you create the potential for a gaming community. That's pretty nice for maudlin geeks like myself. It's somewhere to be creative and amuse other people. But if we import any of our creativity, we are going to import all of it, every last annoying detail.
If the game owners, or rather the people we've had the opportunity to play alongside really wanted to be community oriented, they'd make a statement once in a while that details what virtual world development objectives they vehemently oppose pursuing, or have abandoned.
Some of us really don't care if our guns and crap are balanced. We don't care about changes to what in our eyes is only a tiny part of the game. We're expecting that to become a means to some ends, and in that ends, we are hoping we can develop private political worlds. If you tell us to forget this directly, we will quit bothering you and go our separate ways. Does it really make you happy to collect that $11 a month just to manage and sidestep our daily grievances? Does it fit with your vision of what EVE was supposed to become and the community it was supposed to support?
EVE is becoming ghetto. Every day that it stays that way, EVE welcomes people that don't give a damn about community and only want to become "perfectly adapted" to more and more limited forms of the same small, lifeless and uninspiring segment of gameplay anyone apparently finds worth pursuing. In the same approach, EVE hemorrhages creative yet disenchanted members of what is still a vibrant community waiting to be.
If EVE is your art, could you please have a moment of honesty with those who are beginning to feel you view as mere consumers and tell them what it is definitely not supposed to be and is never going to become?
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