Mark Marconi
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2016.12.03 22:31:33 -
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I must admit i am surprised by how many people just seem to forget that CCP is a business with a staff and overheads.
This game was not designed to be a free to play like World of Tanks.
But has slotted in Free to Play like Blizzard did in World of Warcraft.
The ability to still play and interact with the game without payment is a big step but if CCP give away too much them no one will have a game as it is now because CCP would have to radically alter the game just so they actually made money.
Also don't forget "Free to Play" is never Free, someone is footing the bill and now its the Omegas footing the bill for Development and CCPs overheads.
The CSM gets in the way of CCP communicating properly with the players of this game.
After all we are not just players, we are customers.
Time for the CSM to be disbanded.
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Mark Marconi
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2016.12.04 22:29:44 -
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Keno Skir wrote:Toobo wrote:While the OP is probably rightly seen as a whine about free things, so easy to debunk and argue against, I do not such feedbacks are without value to CCP and the community. This is something new CCP has tried, and although some of the complaints may not be justified, I think it's also natural to consider the possibility that CCP didn't get it 'perfect' (I mean who could get things perfect anyways).
I too consider myself a fan boy to some extent, but in brushing off little whines here and there, and always using the 'CCP is a company and its interests are in business', we may also be brushing off some of the details that are good to consider. I've seen this multiple times now over the years, where fan boys (like me) vociferously shoot down and whines and complaints. But it is also true that EVE is not yet a perfect game and CCP is not a perfectly run business (probably no one can make that claim anyway but...).
Maybe not on this particular thread, but in other threads similar to this I saw some ideas that sounded reasonable for CCP to consider, but they just get shot down as 'why yo complain about free stuff'.
Just my two cents If they made any good suggestions, with a respectful attitude they wouldn't get flamed near so much.
This is pretty much it.
Most of the things that people seem to be demanding go into the range where personally Ii think they should be paying. Cloaking for example as even the ability to cloak for a minute is a very powerful ability. These skills have the ability to alter the game to much without the individual paying for the right and the fact is that the Alphas will enjoy future expansions paid for by Omegas.
However I have not heard anyone make a case for limited use of PI by Alphas.
From an industry perspective PI is an important thing and alphas should be allowed to dip their toes into it, with limited planets (1), limited scanning skills and limited exporting.
After all the biggest danger posed by Alphas is players with no lives making piles of them and flooding the market.
The CSM gets in the way of CCP communicating properly with the players of this game.
After all we are not just players, we are customers.
Time for the CSM to be disbanded.
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