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Posted - 2013.07.02 16:11:00 -
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CCP Phantom wrote:That said, please keep your feedback and discussions in this thread polite and reasonable. Personal attacks, insults or other forum rule violations should be avoided, thank you!
EA is considered by a great many players to have made some colossal mistakes in the last few years. EA's "Play4free" franchises have not been considered successful by the gaming press. It is not unreasonable for Eve's playerbase to question Sean Decker's competence or "fit" with Eve since he lists the EA Play4free program among his accomplishments.
I'd like to see a statement from Sean explaining why he thinks he will be an asset to CCP and what capabilities he believes he can bring to the table.
I'd also like to see a statement from Hilmar (or similar) answering those same two questions (above) and also how they reached the conclusion that Sean's history with EA wasn't a concern.
I fully recognize that CCP hf. is a privately held Icelandic corporation and is under no legal obligation to explain its hiring practices to me or any other player. But CCP has a history of speaking frankly to her players, and I'm hoping I'll get some responses.
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Ace Uoweme wrote:If CCP wants to tackle the 800lb gorilla in the room to have some presence in the MMO industry, they have to make friends with Activision-Blizzard's enemy, and that's EA.
So in EvE terms, Gallente is teaming up with Caldari.
What you propose ("make friends with Activision-Blizzard's enemy, and that's EA") may be the course of action that CCP wishes, needs, or should take, but I think you need to lay a bit more foundation before making such a substantial claim.
More to the point, I fail to see how hiring the former executive of EA constitutes "making friends" with EA. Either EA let Sean go, or Sean chose to leave EA. In the former, I can't see how EA would find CCP's hiring of Sean of any interest, while in the latter I can see how EA might consider it "poaching" of talent (which can't really be good for friendship-building).
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