EVE Search - Establishments in Winter 2011 Expansion, yes or no?

Issler Dainze wrote:

CCP Solomon wrote:

... Pakleds "we are not smart"....

If CCP history is any indication this means you will never ever see any additional WiS. And it will be the strangest unfinished content experience ever. Most unfinished Eve content can go unnoticed unless you made the mistake of making it your primary focus. Most players for example aren't constantly reminded that FW was never finished, that POSs have been broken since they were introduced or that WHs never got all the content promised there. But every time we log in we will now be reminded of that "crazy idea CCP started on where you would actually be able to walk around in the stations". That thing they worked on for 5 years that delivered the only single character trapped in a single room experience in MMO history". The thing that makes the NEX store and their attempt at microtransactions the biggest face plant in next generatition of MMO revenue models.

What CCP doesn't get is the EXPERIENCE of walking in stations is the fun! We don't need "game play" there to make us just want to interact socially as avatars in a space station enviroment. For example, for me to just be able to meet with my corp in a large private meeting room would be fantastic. Give me some spacestation eye candy I can share with my friends and you can stop and ponder "game play" to make it better, but putting me in my uncustomizable CQ prison cell every log in just says "fail".

So sadly what I saw in the winter expansion list was already more than they can deliver (and they even implied more would be added to the list) so they did what we begged them not to do and set us up for dissappointment.

So this winter we get the balancing we should have gotten a year ago, improvments to FW (which can't amount to much in the short time they have), some capital nerfs that should have been in a patch not an expansion, some likely randomization of 0.0 by mucking with local and making SOV even more confusing.

Net effect to myself or the members of my alliance is no decernable changes. I expect that will really be what most Eve players ultimately get from this expansion.

I think what this really says is don't expect anything new or cool in Eve, because CCP can't commit to finishing anything. The moment someone starts to whine they rethink their plans and vision and chase a new random direction. Anything more than tweaking some constants in a table that determines, damage, timers, resists, yields, speeds or ranges is beyond their capabilites to deliver in a complete and functional manner.

They have too much on thier plate and the ability to focus that you'd expect from a kitten in a ball or yarn store. They still don't graps that loud voices in these forums or from a hand full of people elected by special interest groups do not reflect the actual player base.

Steve Jobs stated "It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them". I thought CCP got that once but it is clear now they don't have the steel the stick to their guns and deliver anyting other than what some screamy focus group whines for.

Eve will eventually die by committee. Right now I expect folks in CCP are meeting to decide what kind of fire we want..

"When youGÇÖve been in marketing as long as I have, you'll know that before any new product can be developed it has to be properly researched. WeGÇÖve got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them."

And Eve freezes to death while they sort that out..

Issler