Rob Crowley
State War Academy
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Posted - 2013.09.29 10:13:00 -
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Thanks CSM, good work so far! And while I am criticizing a lot about this issue I still believe CCP intended well with this whole thing and didn't omit the CSM because they knew the answer would be negative. But of course intending well is not enough.
Sentient Blade wrote:Third party developers and event organizers add additional features and content to the game that CCP does not have the resources or will to develop and maintain themselves. We'd be less well off without them.
Tossing them a few things here and there to help bring more people to their services is a good thing.
I'd like to see the people who make things like EHQ, Eve-Kill, EFT etc thrown a few gifts in the process. Either deliberately or maybe by chance, all those 3rd parties you mention are out-of-game non-profit entities and not in ingame competition with anyone. I would be much less concerned about the whole issue if such an organization had been chosen instead of an ingame for-profit one.
That said, even in the case of an out-of-game non-profit organization I still wouldn't want the CCP support to be massive ingame valuables but rather out-of-game stuff as much as possible. Because even when the organizations themselves are not in competition the players making up the organizations are part of the sandbox and therefore always somehow in competition.
Strictly personally speaking as one of 3 EveHQ devs it would feel wrong to me if we were handed massively valuable ingame stuff from CCP. I won't deny that I would stroke my epeen and be very happy if we were to get a Spotlight dev blog though. 
CCP Pokethulu wrote:We also want to assure you that we are working closely with CCP's legal team to ensure all legal concerns resulting from this event, and future events like it, are addressed. Uh oh, is that the same legal team that is supposedly reworking the 3rd party dev license without any published progress since January? Which is what apparently is a major factor of keeping CREST from being deployed. Which incidentally is something the whole 3rd party dev community could massively profit from without any issues of favouritism.
If the answer is yes, then please don't slow down that precious legal team any more. |
Rob Crowley
State War Academy
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Posted - 2013.09.29 11:16:00 -
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Prince Kobol wrote:Considering the amount of people who play Somerblink I find it very hard to believe that only a handful of players knew about the Q1 Gifts, especially considering a couple of well know Eve Bloggers posted about it and its was on both EN24 and Reddit. For whatever it might be worth to you, I didn't know about it.
I still don't see the point behind this whole line of argumentation though. Just because something bad happened in the past we can't be arguing about something bad (in fact even worse because of the increased value) happening now? That doesn't make sense to me. The only thing this could IMO explain is why CCP might not have expected backlash, but I'm already assuming good intentions on CCP's side. |