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Posted - 2014.09.18 10:37:00 -
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I think that the main focus of people's complaints have become a little clouded for some people, while others have simply jumped on the band wagon and started complaining about "X thing in Eve is hurting the small guy". It wasn't always just about the small guy, it was about everyone across Eve. It isn't just the small guy that's effected by these issues, it's all of us. Not everyone wants to be the little guy, and not everyone wants to be in the shadow of immense power projection and unstoppable forces while dealing with broken mechanics, risk averse entities and blue doughnuts.
The only people who are actually bothered about SP are either A) A recruiter for specific roles, B) A new player that is unable to grasp the sandbox that is Eve or C) Idiots, blunt I know but really it's stupid. But that's just in specific complaints and isn't really important here.
Part of the problem is that for entities to achieve something, they require someone/some people at the top of the pile to, basically, do most of the work for them. They don't always have someone like this, so they try to find some sort of excuse, they turn to blaming the game and get the idea that the game should be handing their achievements to them, providing them with power enough to topple their foes instead of working to the top like you see with a lot of major groups in Eve. They think that if they complain enough, CCP will listen and start to hand them these "I WIN" buttons and/or dumb down Eve, this is not the case.
The same thing happened to other MMOs, WoW (Vanilla and BC prime) and Tera(Beta and release period) come to mind, however in their case the devs actually listened to the vocal masses of incompetents and ultimately drove the games into the ground, leaving the husks that we see today which are still being milked for every drop. There's many other games where the same thing occurred but these are just examples. So it doesn't surprise me that some people may try similar things with Eve, especially considering Eve's history (Jita riots, "P2W" scandal etc). There will always be entitled vocal fools who just want their hollow accomplishments, because they'll just move onto the next game after they've ruined their current venture.
But this is where we get to that grey area, because there are many issues with Eve, we all know this, some of them are even part of the daily "X THING IS BROKEN PLZ NERF!" threads. The problem is dealing with them in a way which wont harm Eve in the long run. A lot of these fixes and feature implementations take many months if not years to finish, so while CCP are working hard to bring about the shiny new content, game changers and fixes, people are going to keep complaining as if the issue was just swept under the rug.
So really my advise is, be patient, let masses of incompetents do their thing, speak up when it is necessary and CCP should hopefully, work through these issues to bring us a "better tomorrow" Eve. Because judging by your OP, you are currently winning Eve and that's all that matters. |
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Posted - 2014.09.18 11:37:00 -
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baltec1 wrote:Ssabat Thraxx wrote:
FFS CCP, if it aint broke dont "fix "it!
Null is very broken though.
Yup it really is, I'm looking forward to seeing what statements are made after the upcoming summit , maybe CCP/CSM will come up with some plans, maybe grab some of the ideas that have been developing on the forums because there has been some pretty interesting ones. |