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Gully Alex Foyle
Black Fox Marauders Repeat 0ffenders
483
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Posted - 2014.06.06 14:20:00 -
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Schmata Bastanold wrote:For me that's hilarious. Indeed it would be if that was really the exact truth.
But it just as easily could have been the CEO writing it himself, then asking both the PR guy and a good writer from the fiction department to have a look, then maybe changing a sentence or a couple of words.
Years later, it becomes 'the fiction department writing the letter' in an online news article. |
Schmata Bastanold
Black Rebel Rifter Club The Devil's Tattoo
1932
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Posted - 2014.06.06 14:25:00 -
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Oh, we don't and won't ever know who wrote it but that's not the point of interwebz nerdrage. Stop making sense and let me enjoy those moment filled with vile emotions! I am not my skills but... http://eveboard.com/pilot/Schmata_Bastanold |
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
22389
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Posted - 2014.06.06 14:34:00 -
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Schmata Bastanold wrote:Oh, we don't and won't ever know who wrote it but that's not the point of interwebz nerdrage. Stop making sense and let me enjoy those moment filled with vile emotions! You know what those moments need? GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: Newbie skill plan 2.1. |
Gully Alex Foyle
Black Fox Marauders Repeat 0ffenders
483
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Posted - 2014.06.06 14:36:00 -
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Tippia, since you're usually fairly serious, I find your cheerful enjoyment of Psssshhhh memes hilarious!
Please post moar! |
TheGunslinger42
All Web Investigations
2969
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Posted - 2014.06.06 14:37:00 -
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Solecist Project wrote:Wow, people are surprised by the fact that higher uppers have writers?
People probably think politicians speak freely too, hu?
Common sense. What? Never heard of it?
It's common for a PR person or team to help shape a statement for someone, it's incredibly unusual to pull lore/ingame-text/fiction writers off their work to come up with that kind of thing though. |
Gully Alex Foyle
Black Fox Marauders Repeat 0ffenders
483
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Posted - 2014.06.06 14:40:00 -
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TheGunslinger42 wrote:it's incredibly unusual to pull lore/ingame-text/fiction writers off their work to come up with that kind of thing though. Maybe they were originally scheduled to write lore about some new monocle, so suddenly they had some time to spare. |
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
22389
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Posted - 2014.06.06 14:41:00 -
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Gully Alex Foyle wrote:Tippia, since you're usually fairly serious, I find your cheerful enjoyment of Psssshhhh memes hilarious! Please post moar! Well, on a more serious note, and talking more to the large number of people being hit by thisGǪ GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: Newbie skill plan 2.1. |
Anathema Device
State War Academy Caldari State
4
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Posted - 2014.06.06 14:47:00 -
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Brooks Puuntai wrote:As someone who has been around long enough and watched how CCP does things, this really isn't a surprise at all.
Watching CCP over the years has been like watching a train slowly derail. That is too harsh. Over the years CCP have provided you with more than one train wreck to watch.
CCP does deserve praise for continual improvement to EVE over the years. They didn't sit back and basically freeze development like Anarchy Online to fund development of another game system. EVE Industry plus Trading does need to be overhauled which may provide another train wreck for your entertainment.
The bit of the Guardian story I wondered about was the White Wolf staff that were used as temporary developers for EVE. Next crisis hits and that pool of talent is no longer available.
CCP should have said how many people had been redeployed within the company. I've been through company restructures, downsizing and redundancy. Last couple of times when my teams were made redundant I stayed at the company in another role without loss of pay or benefits. It looks a lot better if the company can say the redundancies were unavoidable, x number of employees were redeployed, y number left voluntarily and the company had no choice for the z number of staff. |
TheGunslinger42
All Web Investigations
2970
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Posted - 2014.06.06 14:51:00 -
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Naomi Hale wrote:Reading the Gurdian article, not really sure you can think of CCP as the black sheep of game developement.
I used to share an office with a guy, he was designing the lead character for a game. He'd done dozens of facial concepts at the behest of the game's director, change the jaw line, different eyebrows, that sort of thing. One day, after weeks of work, the director comes in looks at the concepts and says "Make him look more edgy!" The guy ask what he meant by "edgy" to which the director simply replied "you know, Edgy!" and walked off.
This director had one other game under his belt (a poorly received one), dozens of complaints against him and people had left the company over having to work with him yet management kept him on, I never found out why. Company went bust about four years later.
My point (if there is one) is that management in games companies never seems to explain themselves to the rank and file, which leads to resentment over how thngs are run. It's not just CCP.
Anyone in any part of the tech industry will know someone like Mr Psssshhh or Mr "you know, Edgy!". They're always non-tech-y people, whether they're higher levels of management, or sales people, or whatever. They throw around and demand the vaguest of buzzwords and then vanish or go silent when someone asks for some specifics or clarity.
Then when it hits the fan, they're kept on while the techies are booted, because vague buzzwords and platitudes sound more impressive to the big bosses than the tech people asking for specifics, clarifications, etc.
This short sketch is all too real http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg |
JC Anderson
State Protectorate Caldari State
1116
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Posted - 2014.06.06 14:58:00 -
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XxRTEKxX wrote:I dont pay much attention to who is who in CCP. However, if ccp still has the same CEO who was CEO back during Incarna, then there is something seriously wrong at CCP. That CEO should have stepped down a long time ago and someome else should be at the helm.
Same guy at the top indeed. |
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JC Anderson
State Protectorate Caldari State
1116
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Posted - 2014.06.06 15:01:00 -
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TheGunslinger42 wrote:Naomi Hale wrote:Reading the Gurdian article, not really sure you can think of CCP as the black sheep of game developement.
I used to share an office with a guy, he was designing the lead character for a game. He'd done dozens of facial concepts at the behest of the game's director, change the jaw line, different eyebrows, that sort of thing. One day, after weeks of work, the director comes in looks at the concepts and says "Make him look more edgy!" The guy ask what he meant by "edgy" to which the director simply replied "you know, Edgy!" and walked off.
This director had one other game under his belt (a poorly received one), dozens of complaints against him and people had left the company over having to work with him yet management kept him on, I never found out why. Company went bust about four years later.
My point (if there is one) is that management in games companies never seems to explain themselves to the rank and file, which leads to resentment over how thngs are run. It's not just CCP. Anyone in any part of the tech industry will know someone like Mr Psssshhh or Mr "you know, Edgy!". They're always non-tech-y people, whether they're higher levels of management, or sales people, or whatever. They throw around and demand the vaguest of buzzwords and then vanish or go silent when someone asks for some specifics or clarity. Then when it hits the fan, they're kept on while the techies are booted, because vague buzzwords and platitudes sound more impressive to the big bosses than the tech people asking for specifics, clarifications, etc. This short sketch is all too real http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
After Incarna it was the community reps and those sort of people that were let go. ;) Was a month + a week or so before Xmas if I remember correctly. |
Gully Alex Foyle
Black Fox Marauders Repeat 0ffenders
485
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Posted - 2014.06.06 15:01:00 -
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That's just awesome. +1
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Jake Rivers
Senex Legio
208
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Posted - 2014.06.06 15:02:00 -
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Laying off CCP Xhagen certainly takes away some of the meaning of handing out those 10 year swords.
Did it get traded in for a gold watch?
Who is CCP going to find now with enough guts to fly across the theater at Harpa on flimsy wires? Senex Legio |
Alayna Le'line
94
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Posted - 2014.06.06 15:03:00 -
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Brooks Puuntai wrote:James Amril-Kesh wrote:Cygnet Lythanea wrote:I think it may be safe to assume that the June Financials will be very bad. CCP can still sell WoD IP. That's probably what they're going to do. Doubt there would be many potential buyers. The WoD IP isn't what I would consider to have a large market for. They could however license out the Carbon Engine, I'm sure they will lure more suckers into buying that then the IP.
Wouldn't mind if it went cheap, then maybe Obsidian can pick it up. I for one certainly wouldn't mind a worthy successor to Bloodlines. |
JC Anderson
State Protectorate Caldari State
1116
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Posted - 2014.06.06 15:05:00 -
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Jake Rivers wrote:Laying off CCP Xhagen certainly takes away some of the meaning of handing out those 10 year swords.
Did it get traded in for a gold watch?
Who is CCP going to find now with enough guts to fly across the theater at Harpa on flimsy wires?
Watch... Nobody will want to earn the dev spotlight anymore. ;) Bad omens after the last one just got laid off less than a month later. ;) |
Alayna Le'line
99
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Posted - 2014.06.06 15:09:00 -
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JC Anderson wrote:Jake Rivers wrote:Laying off CCP Xhagen certainly takes away some of the meaning of handing out those 10 year swords.
Did it get traded in for a gold watch?
Who is CCP going to find now with enough guts to fly across the theater at Harpa on flimsy wires? Watch... Nobody will want to earn the dev spotlight anymore. ;) Bad omens after the last one just got laid off less than a month later. ;)
No-one will want to write them anymore either, since the writer got laid off too! :P |
Alayna Le'line
99
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Posted - 2014.06.06 15:09:00 -
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Gully Alex Foyle wrote:Tippia wrote:Gully Alex Foyle wrote:The Guardian couldn't honestly accuse Mr. Petursson of being out of touch and/or arrogant, so they let Mr. Blood do it instead! While providing objectively weak but 'sensational' evidence about it. How else would they have done it and still be journalists rather than CCP employees? The TL;DR of The Guardian's article is: 'WoD was not flawlessly managed'. Which we already know, else in all probability it wouldn't have been cancelled after 9 years and a good bunch of people would still have thier jobs. The rest, including the 'apology letter' story is just sensationalism, which I agree with you that is many journalists' bread and butter, but I don't really find it interesting.
I consider "not perfectly managed" to be quite the understatement if even half of what is in that article is true. |
Hevymetal
POT Corp Semper Ardens Alliance
325
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Posted - 2014.06.06 15:15:00 -
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o7
Here is wishing you all the best of luck. Thanks for what you did for all of us. |
Jake Rivers
Senex Legio
208
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Posted - 2014.06.06 15:16:00 -
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Alayna Le'line wrote:JC Anderson wrote:Jake Rivers wrote:Laying off CCP Xhagen certainly takes away some of the meaning of handing out those 10 year swords.
Did it get traded in for a gold watch?
Who is CCP going to find now with enough guts to fly across the theater at Harpa on flimsy wires? Watch... Nobody will want to earn the dev spotlight anymore. ;) Bad omens after the last one just got laid off less than a month later. ;) No-one will want to write them anymore either, since the writer got laid off too! :P
Oh hell, I missed that part too, bleh. Senex Legio |
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
4980
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Posted - 2014.06.06 15:20:00 -
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Abrazzar wrote:EA buyout in 3... 2... 1...
Bite your tongue! We will not speak of such horror here! Bring back DEEEEP Space! |
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Strawberry Shortcake69
Hyperion Corporation
0
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Posted - 2014.06.06 15:25:00 -
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Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:Abrazzar wrote:EA buyout in 3... 2... 1... Bite your tongue! We will not speak of such horror here!
The last time I said that to somebody they gave me a pppfffffttttttt response. EvE isn't dying but CCP sure is. |
Gully Alex Foyle
Black Fox Marauders Repeat 0ffenders
485
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Posted - 2014.06.06 15:28:00 -
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Alayna Le'line wrote:I consider "not perfectly managed" to be quite the understatement if even half of what is in that article is true. Meh, the article described pretty common mistakes.
Companies succeed while making worse mistakes, and fail while doing most things right.
It's often pretty hard to judge even when you're inside the company. |
flakeys
The Mjolnir Bloc The Bloc
2209
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Posted - 2014.06.06 15:40:00 -
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TheGunslinger42 wrote:Naomi Hale wrote:Reading the Gurdian article, not really sure you can think of CCP as the black sheep of game developement.
I used to share an office with a guy, he was designing the lead character for a game. He'd done dozens of facial concepts at the behest of the game's director, change the jaw line, different eyebrows, that sort of thing. One day, after weeks of work, the director comes in looks at the concepts and says "Make him look more edgy!" The guy ask what he meant by "edgy" to which the director simply replied "you know, Edgy!" and walked off.
This director had one other game under his belt (a poorly received one), dozens of complaints against him and people had left the company over having to work with him yet management kept him on, I never found out why. Company went bust about four years later.
My point (if there is one) is that management in games companies never seems to explain themselves to the rank and file, which leads to resentment over how thngs are run. It's not just CCP. Anyone in any part of the tech industry will know someone like Mr Psssshhh or Mr "you know, Edgy!". They're always non-tech-y people, whether they're higher levels of management, or sales people, or whatever. They throw around and demand the vaguest of buzzwords and then vanish or go silent when someone asks for some specifics or clarity.
Then when it hits the fan, they're kept on while the techies are booted, because vague buzzwords and platitudes sound more impressive to the big bosses than the tech people asking for specifics, clarifications, etc. This short sketch is all too real http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
If you think that only happends in the tech industry you're verry wrong.Every company big or small has a jackass knowitall who knows nothing and shouldn't even have a job to start with.
That said every company needs some PShhhhhhhhhhhh
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
22396
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Posted - 2014.06.06 15:51:00 -
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flakeys wrote:If you think that only happends in the tech industry you're verry wrong.Every company big or small has a jackass knowitall who knows nothing and shouldn't even have a job to start with.
That said every company needs some PShhhhhhhhhhhh It's even a solid business model for some. GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: Newbie skill plan 2.1. |
Pine Marten
Viziam Amarr Empire
27
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Posted - 2014.06.06 16:02:00 -
[205] - Quote
So the employees that fled ccp to go to league of legends saw the writing on the wall huh? That was a bit ago too. |
JC Anderson
State Protectorate Caldari State
1117
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Posted - 2014.06.06 16:21:00 -
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Pine Marten wrote:So the employees that fled ccp to go to league of legends saw the writing on the wall huh? That was a bit ago too.
There have been others that went to Riot since the ones you are talking about, and more recently. Though I was mostly sad about a select few of them. :( |
Alphea Abbra
Common Sense Ltd Nulli Secunda
767
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Posted - 2014.06.06 16:39:00 -
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I'm deeply disturbed by this, and the attempt to write it off as "in publishing" is horrifying. I hope CCP survives, but I think it would be better for you all if next time, layoffs happened in management.
Best of luck to those laid off. |
Deacon Abox
Justified Chaos
336
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Posted - 2014.06.06 16:53:00 -
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Not surprising. Acquiring WoD was a good move. And I would have played that game (and no I'm not a rp-er even though I'm currently in FW). WoD was something new and different like EVE.
But then they quickly jumped to make DUST. WTF Who really couldn't tell that that market was already flooded with products and that that gaming culture is not made of year over year loyalty? No surprise it is in the crapper already.
When they started **** canning people and projects at WoD for increased investment of dev hours and resources for DUST it was 180 degrees the wrong move. Now we have Valkyrie, and wtf is project Legion, sucking resources? I don't even know what Legion is. Doesn't matter.
Valkyrie and DUST are not projects ahead of the curve. WoD is/was. And there would be a sizable/loyal player base to draw on if it were even hallway decently playable.
And what management is greenlighting pet projects that aren't being demanded by the customer base? For example: nauseating gate jumps, annoying autoscanning, incredibly informative and not at all intrusive tooltips. What next will you forcefeed us thinking it somehow is improving the game?
Yes, management needs to cut its own pay and/or layoff itself. But that is now how capitalism works. So I suppose let the corporate death spiral begin. I'm sure the folks at the top will eek out a couple more years of bonus and stock option jackpots while continually laying off line workers and/or reducing their pay. Party on dudes CCP, there are off buttons for ship explosions, missile effects, turret effects, etc. "Immersion" does not seem to be harmed by those. So, please give us a persisting-áoff button for the jump gate and autoscan visuals. |
Antihrist Pripravnik
Tribal Liberation Force Minmatar Republic
324
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Posted - 2014.06.06 17:11:00 -
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Nami Kumamato wrote:CCP is first and foremost a company -deal with it. Second their product occupies a niche in the market - therefore not insane profit. Although I'm not seeing " EVE is dying!" - seeing the moves from their part in recent months it looks like they are shifting back to the small-team structure. Which is a very good plan. They should reduce their efforts to EVE, EVE: Valkyrie and EVE: Legion, trying to create a centralized system. CCP has spread too much for a company that get's it's profits 90% out of a subscription. If EVE: Valkyrie and EVE: Legion have at least moderate success 49 people will get a job at CCP.
If the subscription fee will go up THEN you can start shitting your pants.
This.^^
And by the way, why is there so much hate towards CCP among the players in this thread? I really don't understand. If the reason for layoffs is true, and that is to focus strictly on development of EVE IP, that's completely OK. The company tried to spread focus but obviously bit slightly bigger bite than they can chew. Realizing that fact and switching dedication to products that do make money (and always have been) is a sign of a healthy company and certainly not the opposite. Companies that do fail are the ones that don't realize that they are shooting way over they heads without solid ground to back them up, which obviously isn't the case with CCP now.
But I understand that there is some sort of a sadistic desire by some of the forum trolls for CCP to fail. This can be seen even in every single new feature or change to the game that is introduced since Crucible. Every single feature or change had its own "Omg this is terrible. Revert this [insert insulting adjective] like right now!!11!!!", even for features that were long awaited and desired by a huge majority of players for years.
I have been in EVE since "Red Moon Rising" and have been following these forums and the community (EN24, TheMittani, Kugu, failheap, subreddits, player blogs,...) all the time and I can say that CCP bashing and these types of trolls were not that present before Incarna. After Incarna, it became FOTM to bash every step that CCP makes in or out of the game. This is allowed because CCP is one of the few companies that actually do care about your opinion as a customer and allows you to post any criticism including negative, especially since what happened in Incarna. This is abused to hell and back by some players to the point where it became ridiculous.
After Incarna and huge amount of negative feedback along with the big hit to CCP as a company, CCP has dedicated never to make the same mistake of not listening to player feedback again. The process of introduction of new features and changes is now: - Create a topic by a dev responsible for the changes in the "Features & ideas" discussion; - After feedback, come up with the working version of the feature/change and publish it in a devblog specifically stating that it's a WIP; - Gather more feedback in the devblog thread; - Refine the feature/change some more according to the feedback; - Publish new devblog if necessary; - Publish patch notes about the change and link both the F&I thread and devblog(s);
Is this the sign of "bad management"? Is this a sign of "bad state of CCP as a company"? Is this a sign of "CCP/EVE is dying"?
I don't think so.
And I don't even want to start talking about an article from "The Guardian". Credibility of articles in The Guardian is like credibility Kim Jong-il writing about western culture - they are partially true and can sound reasonable for brainwashed masses, but are ultimately written for their own interests and some details are over-amplified to make the whatever the point the author wanted. I'm not going deeper into politics, but politicians in the UK haven't yet gone over the way Iceland defended themselves from a banking fraud that was the cause of 2008. global economic crisis.
My signature got stolen (o.0) |
Anna Karhunen
Inoue INEXP
364
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Posted - 2014.06.06 18:11:00 -
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Tippia wrote:flakeys wrote:If you think that only happends in the tech industry you're verry wrong.Every company big or small has a jackass knowitall who knows nothing and shouldn't even have a job to start with.
That said every company needs some PShhhhhhhhhhhh It's even a solid business model for some. Management by Bj+¦rk? As my old maths teacher used to say: "Statistics are like bikinis: It's what they don't show that's interesting". -CCP Aporia |
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