Skyleth Bergen
Jovian Disease Foundation
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Posted - 2016.05.19 21:03:31 -
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I think the daily approaches the problem from the wrong direction. Personal context is I log in most days for a few hours at least (way too much). I almost never spend any time killing npcs, and only do so when some friends want to because I enjoy hanging out and playing the game with them. The reason I don't want to do it is because it isn't very fun, even though it generates isk I can use. Adding a small skill point reward isn't going to change how fun or not fun the activity you are rewarding is. In the short term it will probably get more people into space, but I'd wager they'll stop bothering with it soon enough.
The goal with the addition of daily quests, because that's what they are, is to get more people to log in and get more people in space. But the better way to do that is probably to improve the experience of shooting npcs in the first place. You guys are working on that with npc behavior, and I think that's the right direction to go in. Copying features of other MMOs can be good, but I don't dailys fits well with this player base. You know they are older and have less time. The daily feature suggests a company struggling to get players to play and flailing wildly, and Eve players can smell weakness!
You guys (CCP) are probably never going to multiply the player base unless you succeed at making another hit that still has integration into Eve Online. It's a long shot, but a good goal. The reinvention of Dust, project Legion or whatever its called now, sounds great. If you link the games together right, you can generate new Legion related things to do for Eve Online players (I dunno maybe they need us to build tanks or something), and the Eve Online players can supply a role playing narrative providing context for the fights that Legion players participate in. If that bridge works, I could see new people becoming interested in Eve Online. Worst comes to worst, Eve Online will shut down one day which is inevitable anyway. You guys are all highly employable so what do you have to worry about?
Any way I'm rambling...
TLDR: Double down on long term goals, eschew the desperate tactics employed by blizzard. |