However with one failed decision you've knocked 4 points off and now it sits around a 2. All the good and hard work others have done has been undone with just one decision.

we're living in a tolerant society.

Posting in another CCP DumbB!tch thread...

Know what the best thing is to do with annoying teenage attention whores?

Ignore them.

A lot of regular posters seem to have vanished off the forums recently, I wonder why.

I wish the forums were more open. They call things like this an "attack" but these are just words, and players have no power.

They just have the freedom to leave, and CCP isn't scared of that considering they ban them anyway, or develop other games or ignore them.

It seems oppressive. CCP has all the power in one of the few places players can express themselves and they delete and moderate their words.

"CCP is under attack"

right

a lot of people in positions of power seem to love this excuse

I though it was in the EULA that commenting on CCP staff was bannable?

Or did I dream it?

I was careful in my wording.
I'm certainly not being disrespectful to anyone, in fact I praise half a dozen or so CCP staff. I tell about how I've grown to respect some that previously I didn't like very much.

The post only contains praise of CCP staff, and my reservations about a decision that was made and the good work that I feel was undone by said e




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That which has been seen, cannot be unseen.

Odyssey would have been released as a successful expansion, If you had just left out the one glaring screwup.

You could have held your heads high after dealing with the DDoS downtime so well.

As the miners realised that Ice & WH mining wasn't completely stuffed and they just needed to adapt a little. It would've been generally regarded as a good release. Not great like Apoc or anything, but hardly another Incarna.

CCP Fozzie and Rise working their arses off for many months, making good changes after feedback from us about what was good and what was crap. Those 2 have done an outstanding job creating not only goodwill in the forums, but making EVE a place I want to be.

Falling in love with CCP Seagull as she powered through the clearly visible nerves and presented at fanfest like an absolute champion. Not because shes female but because shes got guts. These thing foster goodwill with me, I don't want to speak for anyone else, but I'm sure I'm not alone on this, and they make me regard EVE as my own, these things make me want to keep sending you money.

CCP Peligro, whom I had considered a bit of a turd before fanfest gained multitudes of personal respect from his presentation at fanfest. CCP Soundwave, on the couch, relaxed, you all did so well.

Yet you blew it all with just one post. Actually several posts from CCP staff, but we know who the main offender is.

It just baffles me.

Someone somewhere was thinking, 'well this is all going a bit too smoothly, the playerbase seems a little too quiet, what can I do to mess this up? boot.ini? Eh been done before. $900 jeans? So passee. How about a company wide email? Um, not quite that fearless. Wait a minute, I think I've got something!'


If you imagine Apoc - Incarna on a scale from 10 - 0, I'd probably rate Odyssey about a 6 or 7. It's better than mediocre I think. I'm probably weighting too heavily the minimal downtime, the fact that POSs didn't kill their owners and silly things like that.

However with one failed decision you've knocked 4 points off and now it sits around a 2. All the good and hard work others have done has been undone with just one decision.

I won't be continuing, I'm not getting over it, if anything I'm getting more worked up about it. I'll check in on the forums and news sites periodically to see if the problem still persists, my guess is that I will activate those PLEXs the same day the problem goes away. I have 20 days left on this set of PLEX. I'll use that time to shiptoast and pull my pixels into one location in a station far far away.


I guess the TL;DR is that I'm not comfortable contributing to one of your employees salary.