Duke Garland
Solar Vista.
The Anubis Accord
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Posted - 2016.06.21 16:18:21 -
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CCP Logibro wrote:It's been limping along for a while, but it's finally time to say au revoir to the In-game Browser. Read more details on why we're putting it out to pasture and how we'll handle URLs in the client in the future in this dev blog by CCP FoxFour.
Mind you I've not (and won't) read the entirety of this thread, rather skipped over it via DEV posts and quickly glancing over a couple other player's posts. What I get from the DEVblog that is linked is a lot of "wohoo CREST-fanboi" speak with very little reasoning why removing the IGB without any replacement is actually necessary. Other than "oh yea we didn't quite work on it for a long time". While I don't use the IGB every day I'm still using it very frequently and forcing me to tab out of game is quite annoying. And no, copy/pasteing links into IGB isn't much less annoying. At least have the decency to keep things the way they used to be with an opt in to default to open links in one's OOGB. Pretty please anyone?
Ultimately to me the IGB is an element of immersion in the game and forcing me out of game while I wish to spend my time in the game is quite detrimental to my player eXperience and takes away from the "we create virtual worlds" (https://www.ccpgames.com/) slogan as well as "we don't believe in the word 'impossible'" (https://www.ccpgames.com/careers/) thingy.
CCP FoxFour wrote:
An overlay is inadequate but the IGB was not? How in the world does that make sense? Pretty much every overlay out there with a browser is years ahead of the IGB.
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That isn't really a simple task unfortunately.
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True, but it is a matter of prioritization. So many things we want to do and a limited number of devs.
This further cements my impression that after neglecting work on the IGB for perhaps YEARS somebody in the chain simply chose to hit the killswitch rather than admitting (or probably even just considering) that not diverting proper ressources could've been a mistake. And as such taking means to correct that, however long that may take. I'm perfectly aware CCP is probably among the smaller DEV studios, but maybe somebody could consider doing LESS many things at the same time and instead focusing on thoroughly doing fewer things at once? I remember how the ship tiericide to me felt like proceeding smoothly while being tremendously well received - now the module tiericide feels like it trickles away with a number of module types still waiting to be adressed since a while...
CCP FoxFour wrote:We inserted some metrics a while ago every time one of the JavaScript callbacks was used but also just for every page load, how long the browser is open, etc.
I'm quite interested in actual numbers to back up those metrics. As with the announcement about the removal about the old camera (5.5% my butt) I somehow feel as if inactive accounts or secondary or tertiary characters from registered accounts are taken into such metrics whom naturally did/do not use either.
CCP FoxFour wrote:Is there a reason you're unwilling to use an Overlay?
You've said yourself that CCP in no way supports nor intends to incorporate any of them - despite being "years ahead" of the current IGB. On top of that CCP (naturally, I'll give you that) reserves the right to include any and all overlays into the list of bannable offenses, after pointing players towards them and creating but a new dependency.
And despite all that what was written and what I've read this really took the cake.
CCP FoxFour wrote:
This food sucks.
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Any chance I could get this food without the nuts? I am actually allergic to them. :)
Once of those statements is useful the other is not. Care to take a guess which is yours?
Sorry, but are you quite sane in your mind? Did you forget about any sense or policy on how to deal with the community? The people that are responsible for your monthly wage (and those of your colleagues)? You're representing the WHOLE company you work for (CCP, as is quite visible to everyone due to the tag to the left of your username) and replies like that (be they intended to be taken as sarcasm or not) simply are not to be posted from any official employee. First and foremost this is a matter of showing respect to your customers, aside from this statements like that one cast a certain light on things that are probably not in general favor to CCP. |