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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.07.02 23:04:00 -
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Tzar Sinak wrote:EA was voted the worst company several times and the CEO voted the worst serval times. So, is the new guy running away from EA or bringing EA with him?
You can take the person out of the country, you can't take the country out of the person.
I'm looking forward to seeing what mistakes this guy makes when trying to take over the wheel. Crash into the barrier? Overheat the engine? Burn out the tyres? Or maybe he'll manage, somehow, to leave the culture of EA behind him and keep this car in the race.
The best thing I can say about EA is that they weren't responsible for Star Wars Galaxies.
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.07.03 08:00:00 -
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Verunae Caseti wrote:I agree that MMO is not a genre, but it's silly to say that EVE and WoW are not in direct competition. It's not like people have a genre and they only play games in that genre and nothing else.
EVE and WoW are not in direct competition. There are many more players who want to play swords & sorcery style games than spaceship combat games. People do choose games by genre, I have friends who very distinctly fall into the categories of "FPS gamer" and "fantasy roleplayer" in terms of the genres of games that they play.
It is silly to think that someone who enjoys gear-grind fantasy PvE would like EVE Online just because EVE is another MMO.
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.07.03 08:17:00 -
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coolzero wrote:it works for some games...it may get you money at first for eve but not before loosing a large chunk of veteran eve players(those who also have a lot of accounts), me included.
Be careful when throwing around statements like, "not before losing a large chunk of veteran players"
If I was looking at the performance of Battlefield Heroes or whatever crappy casual free-to-play game was going, and knew about the nasty social environment of EVE veterans being the second or third biggest turn-off for new players, I would regard losing a large chunk of veteran players as A Good ThingGäó, if the inflow of new accounts more than compensated for the accounts shut down by the exiting bitter vets.
Then in two years when the income was at an all time high, gender balance at 45/55, we weren't receiving hundreds of complaints daily about sexual harassment, and lowsec was actively populated by people having adventures, I would look back at the decision to go Free-To-Play and thank myself for making that difficult decision.
Seriously, that is what goes through my head when I see people winding up that "ultimate ultimatum."
"Oh, you are threatening to quit if we do X? CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! We will do X in such a way that you will like it so much that you get your friends to subscribe too!"
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.07.03 23:09:00 -
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Malcanis wrote:"Sure, EVE has managed 10 years of continuous growth with those horrible meany-face veterans, but THIS year is the one where they'll start to be a liability!"
You're CSM: go ask CCP about what reasons people give for not sticking with the game past the trial period. Given the focus of attention recently, I'm guessing that number 1 is going to be "the UI stinks", with "the other players stink" somewhere in the top 5, if not the top 3, reasons that people don't stay.
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