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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
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Posted - 2013.12.29 15:21:00 -
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Thetabetalpha wrote:Dave Stark wrote:there's actually nothing wrong with mining. is as exactly as interactive as pvp.
target things; activate modules. You must never done any mining then. Mining is Daves thing, it's what he does.
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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
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Posted - 2013.12.29 16:18:00 -
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Thetabetalpha wrote:
So let me say it in my words:
We get through sort of natural selection here. Or bootcamp. The stronger stay, quitters gotta quit.
And I suppose it's a balance of those who does not to want or has limited time to farm horrid pve content and decide to spend cash on Plex which is bought by the players who pay for the game time with ISK.
I still don't get the financial part of it - more ppl interested in pve would become that fodder to shoot at.
It would create much greater cash flow for CCP too. Just the rise of the demand of the plex if eve got more players interested in eve would boost CCP profits dramatically.
Then more profits would yield much better content.
It's called niche marketing, Eve caters to a particular kind of player and is rather successful at it. If Eve was changed to appeal to the masses it would rapidly become a poor facsimile of itself, because the players they attract would demand changes to the very essence of Eve. |
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
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Posted - 2013.12.29 16:51:00 -
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Thetabetalpha wrote:Bigger playerbase equals bigger demands, but much bigger paychecks also.
It is like saying: "We have a small company here it takes care of local demands, but we don't wanna grow and get on the world state or even world level."
I bet they still want those $1000 jeans, but bite the elbows instead.
It also kills games, look at Ultima Online, and what happened to it when the Devs gave into demands for a safer environment.
Not every game developer is trying to compete with the likes of Blizzard. Some are quite happy being big fish in a small pond, as opposed to being a minnow in a large ocean. The smaller devs tend to be the ones who innovate, the bigger ones are happy to keep churning out the same shite year after year with little or no innovation. |
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