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Gallente
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Posted - 2006.09.03 21:33:00 -
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Yes I have to agree with the OP I also sense a growing swell of discontent, more than 50% of the threads are venting frustration and the "Quit whining go play Wow trolls" are dwindling. Ive seen game companies close forums when the negativity has reached these levels, it does more harm than good to the noob recruitment.
Anyways to lighten things up here is the link to INONIMATES awesome tale of travel thro Eve with nary a troll to be seen in 25 pages, and equally no whines. INONIMATES Journey thro 0.0
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Gallente
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Posted - 2006.09.03 22:11:00 -
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Yes very true I think Eve is safe for the forseable future! But!! as soon as another Space Mmorpg emerges my money is on a mass exodus to sample the new waters, initialy the vast majority of players will keep there Eve accounts so it will turn into a direct compitition for customer service, server stability, game features and playability.
Not polite to mention it here but such a game is in early development stages its called "infinity" and has the early look of a winner. Nuff said or ill get jumped on. by the way the devs here are fully aware of this potential threat and see it as a challenge to improve Eve.
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Gallente
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Posted - 2006.09.03 22:20:00 -
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 Originally by: Archangel Raphael
would i be right in saying that these forums, although there not frequented by every eve player, do represent the a good cross section of the community?
if so, would it not make sense for, a: ccp, to actually put foward their suggestions to any alterations to eve, to the community. weeks in advance, to allow proper discussion and mature debate regarding the suggested changes. and only then do changes that have unanimous backing from the actual player base, get in.
and then b: seeing as "eve" is a community based game with a large community, and that the vast majority live in some sort of democracy. perhaps it wouldnt be a bad idea to elect various ppl who represent the various types of gamers to thrash out the implications of any future alteration on our behalf
yes nice idea but from what Ive seen of a certain percentage of forum greifers and "profesional" trolls I think discussion would soon degenerate into flamebait and be locked within a few pages by the mods.
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Posted - 2006.09.03 22:31:00 -
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Originally by: Aeaus
I doubt they care too much about TQ anymore, it's gone from "We appreciated you," to "Stop whining, and this isn't my problem." CCP care more about China, it's a more profitable (and easier to run) market for them =/
Cant bring myself to agree with you on this one, Afaik they have recruited a partner company in china to take over the business, actually all foreign owned businesses are required to employ locals so CCp would only provide a skeleton staff to train them and keep an eye on its progress, I lived and worked in china and you may be suprised at just how competent and skilled they are. also the subscriptions are a quarter of those we pay and the servers cost actually more due to shipping and import taxes they are not making oodles of cash. only thing they may gain on is staff salaries are a pittance compared to europe, again offset by hugely inflated costs associated with housing and feeding the few Expat CCP employees. plus of course they will recieve double the income that they would recieve in Iceland or london. I think they are just overwhelmed and havnt planned there recruitment in advance to cope with the doubling of susbscribers in the past year. Only now are they recruiting GM's to defeat the more than 5k backlog in petitions.
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