Astrid Stjerna
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Posted - 2011.10.19 22:10:00 -
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CCP Manifest wrote:Today it was my solemn duty to post an announcement from CCP. You can read that announcement here. Please keep your discussion of the announcement to this thread if possible, and understand that this and the days in the future are going to be very difficult for those at CCP. We stand behind our decisions and trust that it will ultimately bring you, the EVE community, a better game.
First of all, my condolences to those that lost their jobs. In an uncertain economy, that's a scary and dicey situation to be in, and I hope you can survive what is quite probably going to be a very rough few weeks.
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I'm glad to see you stick by your guns. You're obviously confident that you're on the right track; I've never been in your shoes, so I can't comment one way or the other. I do, however, couch this praise in a word of caution:
Your players are watching you.
Your players are also very cautious. You've been through some rough patches of late -- the Hilmar debacle, the only semi-successful launch of Incarna, and this unexpected round of layoffs. We've stuck with you, for the most part. We've shared your pain, and cheered at your successes.
The recent shakeups, both in public and those undoubtably going on behind-the-scenes, have us extremely worried. Most of us are crossing our fingers that this isn't a forewarning of something worse coming down the pipe.
We want to see CCP succeed, because that means that EvE itself will succeed. We're scared, though, that EvE and CCP are going in a direction where we can't follow. You've done a lot to restore confidence -- Hilmar's apology, the more open communication that's come out of it, and the new, more tightly-focused game-plan for EvE's future were all good things to happen.
But we are watching you, CCP, and we hope you're watching us in return. These next few months may just tell the tale: EvE will either continue to become the most immersive online experience ever created, or it will stumble into obscurity when one too many mistakes are finally made.
I pray for the former -- and in fear, I prepare for the latter.
Fly safe.
Astrid. |