What do you know about his responsibilities?

You had several replies telling you what his job is!

Welcome Sean Decker to CCP and the Eve Online world. If you read this thread you will no doubt notice some very strong opinions about your employment history. Take note of this. The player base of Eve is passionate, opinionated and despite our in game efforts to make ourselves look like knuckle dragging reprobates with low sloping foreheads, we are actually generally at the higher end of the gamer skill, intelligence, experience and age. Many of us have long memories of games long past. If you do not take note of the history of Eve Online, if you repeat the mistakes of the past, then watch us do what we the player base did before.

Consider this a welcome, not warm, not cold, but a wake up call to the world you have stepped into.

Best of luck, I think you will need it.

]This does not seem at all likely and is also not exactly a real job

What I think is vital is to have someone like Sean to help figuring out how to market in the current competition.

In short how do CCP get into these markets without breaking their model, the hearts of their playerbase and their investors portfolios.

This is possible and we will get something mindblowing, and postive, but its still ccp they are becoming famous for doing everything drunken-master style.

Incarna was only an issue because of the difference between what was originally offered, and what was delivered...not,as some people claim, because no one wanted WiS.

People wanted, and still want WiS, we just didnt get it, we got a single room to sit and upload videos into, which is cool and all, but its not WiS.

On topic: I am on crappy laptop, so cant open a bazillion links, but, unless he was the guy who was personally responsible for the EA messes in the past, it is not an issue for me where he worked before.

It is a real job. It's a producer's job to streamline production. They direct so the others can do their jobs.

He doesn't make anything


He doesn't come up with ideas about what should be made


He doesn't prototyope or brainstorm anything


This role is meaningless

It's a pity you didn't get in touch with CCP and offer to do that nothing for half the salary.

So, in essence you are saying something like how some firms interested in security will hire people like Kevin Mitnick to help them because he actually did bad things so he would know how to deal with that stuff? I guess that's one way to do it. Oh and Wernher Von Braun and NASA is another good example :)

It is a real job. It's a producer's job to streamline production. They direct so the others can do their jobs.

Also, CCP needs a community manager like WoW or EQII has, because devs banning or closing threads look b-a-d. When I see that here I see small company, so small the devs that's suppose to be working on stuff are managing forums, instead. That's not what devs are suppose to be doing. Sure post here and there, but not actively managing the forum itself.

My bad, confused TT with TW. That makes at least one horrible, ruined game franchise on his list. If he ever flies around in EVE I might have to pod him after all...

Nothing to worry about, his offical position is a non influential human door stop or so some people will have us believe.

Id do it for free but Im not in the boy's club that dishes out these roles.


Because doing nothing for free is easy, working out how to get paid a five or six figure salary for it is quite different

Believe me, CCP are well aware that P2W MTs are a bad, bad, bad idea.

And we will remind them.

CCP's Sean Decker and Hilmar Petursson on the future of EVE, DUST 514, EVE-VR, and mobile gaming >> http://www.reddit.com/tb/1hk37y

Interesting read,

Why not just link to the story? http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/07/02/ccps-sean-decker-and-hilmar-petursson-on-the-future-of-eve-dus/

I don't know what that was either, sorry

So what is the pecking order at CCP?

At times, it seems Soundwave calls the shots.

Grayscale seems to do his own alterations and changes with a carte blanche stance. I don't like this so...

There are all these little groups that may or may not get something included during one of the various expansions or patches - Team Avatar comes to mind.

One of the minute notes from a recent CSM meeting seem that CCP hired another - forgot the name, but brought up the aspect of "theme expansions" as directing the future of Eve.

Hilmar was overseeing the direction but now brought in a Vice President to do that task...?

Perhaps CCP's laid back corporate stance will become a rigid order.

So what is the pecking order at CCP?

At times, it seems Soundwave calls the shots.

Grayscale seems to do his own alterations and changes with a carte blanche stance. I don't like this so...

There are all these little groups that may or may not get something included during one of the various expansions or patches - Team Avatar comes to mind.

One of the minute notes from a recent CSM meeting seem that CCP hired another - forgot the name, but brought up the aspect of "theme expansions" as directing the future of Eve.

Hilmar was overseeing the direction but now brought in a Vice President to do that task...?

Perhaps CCP's laid back corporate stance will become a rigid order.