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Posted - 2007.03.10 19:32:00 -
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 Originally by: Armin Novastorm
Originally by: Reiisha
Edited by: Reiisha on 10/03/2007 12:53:08
I hope you don't expect fiction writers to write your bug fixing code? Because that's what you are saying here...
There's people who code, there's people who do graphics, and now there's people who write the prime fiction and there's people who make the new WIS stuff. They're all different groups of people doing different things, and unless you want to stick unqualified personel on bugfixing i don't know what you're saying here.
edit: Some people like RP aswell. There's entire alliances in the game that do this, there's more than enough people who will start RPfng with the new features. EVE is an MMORPG, not an MMOG. If you want a game without any background to play your character to i'd suggest tetris.
Do YOU think the those people writing the stories volunteered to do it out of the goodness of their hearts? Do you think that others at CCP won't be givin a chance to add thier own input into the history of the world?
The fact is that CCP had to pay those people to write the stories. They didn't hire more CS representatives, they didnt hire more testers, they didnt hire more coders, they didnt hire some people to hunt full time for macroers, they didn't hire someone to write a guide for the game, they didnt hire someone to improve the website. They spent their money trying to improve the fiction behind the game.
Once they do that I can say with almost complete certainty that some of the fiction will pave the way for new features or areas which will then have to be coded by programmers who now WON'T be fixing our bugs. Unless that happens to be to completely seperate departments in which case add to the list above that they also didn't higher coders for new features.
That is the point that Erotic Irony and others are trying to point out. You can be reasonably sure that no department in CCP works in a vaccuum. You can also be sure that CCP does not have unlimited funds.
QFT!
Quoted for emphasis!
/signed!
The problem here is not the fiction or the fact that someone is writing it or even being paid to write it. The problem is that money is being spent on things like this when it should be pointed at fixing the game. "It's not my job to fix things." Then why the hell are you here? "It's my job to make more things that need fixing."
/me sighs and shakes her head...
If the game wasn't still full of bugs that have been here for years (see the Known Issues page which ITSELF IS BUGGED!), slapped together content that appears to be an afterthought (why put acceleration gates in dozens of missions and then leave out the bloody gate model itself?), and node deaths every time people try to participate in Eve's so called PvP "vision" people wouldn't care what CCP spends their money on. However, this is not the case and to see them throw money at silly things like this when the bugs get ignored is disheartening to say the least.
It's CCP's money. They can spend it on whatever they like. That doesn't make it smart though.
My advice: CCP, forget all this fluff and glitter! Fix the bloody bugs first then come back later and have at this kind of stuff all you want when the game is out of beta!
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