Guttripper
State War Academy
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.08.12 20:00:00 -
[1] - Quote
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:The news on the self-importance of nullsec usually are overstated and over-reported by nullsec.  6V battle actually was like: 0.8% of the players, less than 10% the concurrent server population any given day, gather and do Sumzin Big and hereby demonstrate that the game is totally completely about them and nobody else... in their opinion. Yet none of them would have any game to play without all the players who pay the bills, all those who play alone in hisec and are treated like misfits by CCP.
And yet these same misfits allow themselves to be treated this way by CCP.
How many threads have came and went on this forum concerning walking in stations? Any time one of the longer running threads begins fading, some "new player" creates a new a thread and practically repeats the same tired lines "If CCP would create avatar gaming, then their subs would increase drastically!" Then there is a list of potential ideas on what would be involved; yet if you have followed CCP's stance over the years, these same ideas (black market, drugs, etc.) have been pushed aside and left to die on their own. The old CCP that would have embraced such seedier sides of life are now replaced by a group that is driving the future of the game towards the generally accepted society. So even gambling might be a touchy subject with them and they're stalling to avoid it. I am not sure about the rest of the world, but around here, one must be at least 21 years old to enter the casino. Yet CCP has the game set for a teen rating. Some bad press that Little Junior used mommy's credit card to purchase plex that he lost in a virtual casino within an online game...?
CCP knows that offering a few bread crumbs of potential avatar game play will keep the hardcore walking in stations crowd here, paying their monthly or yearly fee. Really, how many of you - I'm look at you Ishtanchuk - have claimed boldly and loudly that if CCP does not add avatar gaming, then you and your subscriptions are gone? A glimmer of hope, some small fan fest video, and then, "Sorry, priorities changed here at CCP - we might get around to it again "soon"." And all the doom and gloom that without avatar gaming, then Eve is dead arises once more. That is a kicker for me - there is no other ~potential~ ideas that could possibly keep Eve going forward and stronger than _just_ avatar gaming? No avatar equates to no future, yet here is the game looking ahead to another decade with avatar gaming on some distant back burner.
Do not get me wrong - I would love to see some "good" avatar gaming that has relevance to the rest of the Eve universe. But I highly doubt CCP is going to introduce a dark side, much less a "Blade Runner" type atmosphere. The "cold, dark, harsh universe" is no longer here - at least to me. Look at all the changes CCP has introduced to make life easier and all the safety nets and switches so mistakes are avoided instead of pounced upon as in the past. And that is where CCP is running in square circles. Expand to bring in a social media angle and (based upon an online article I read,) people will leave (eventually) in droves similar to how Facebook and that ilk is passe now - a flash in the pan event overall. Or expand to allow the safety of the station to be breached and players will leave in droves because of the constant ganking involved because people rather just socialize with their avatars and nothing more.
So CCP is following the path of least resistance - offer hope that one day avatar gaming might be here, but doing nothing more than that - offering hope.
Just my thoughts, again, on the matter. |