EVE Search - Advanced Audio Settings Changes

Felyx Ravencroft wrote:

It's OK to try new things, it really is. However, when a new thing fails utterly, the rational and intelligent response is to drop it and go back to what DOES work (progress is not achieved by pursuing dead ends!) Ie. please roll back the audio settings, plain and simple. To now spend time and effort trying to hammer a flawed concept into some vague semblance of ADEQUACY is merely throwing good effort after bad. I think I speak for a lot of us when I say we're not looking for a PARTIAL fix - it was good how it was, and anything less than how it was would be, well (pardon the circular logic), LESS - ie. inferior and inadequate.

The whole "we have now added this slider and that slider, testable on Singularity" thing smacks of exactly that - trying to hang onto a failed idea and force it to work. How does it make any sane sense to now painstakingly work back toward where we were, and likely stop partway there, instead of simply putting it back where it was? Surely it would be FAR simpler to simply reinstate the previously extant code (which surely you have archived, right? If not, I don't have the words, at least polite ones, to express what I would think...) How to make the most people possible happy with the least effort possible? Roll back the advanced audio interface changes.

Here's a simple fact: EVE is driven by its player-base, right? And that player base is comprised of a multitude of play styles and priorities. To attempt to generalise everyone's style to just a few templates would be akin to applying a ****ing horoscope to the issue - utterly absurd. Yes, wormholers have a few main priorities - but that doesn't mean there aren't some who like station interior sounds while some (most?) don't; likewise, some will want jumpgate sounds while some won't; some are shield-tankers and need the low-shield warning while others armour-tank and need it less; and this isn't even accounting for players with hearing or cognitive impairments who may have their own special ways to bring what they need to the surface. UI clicks have been pointed to as a major nuisance - but while allowing us to control it is good, it doesn't mean that other similarly annoying or important options can now be omitted.

It is absurdly fallacious to think that one may apply a set of cookie-cutters to the vast diversity of EVE players. Oh, and here's another sort of player: the sort who in fact actively enjoys the specific act of fine-tuning his/her audio-visual experience.

To selectively reintroduce only the perceived "most needed" sliders is inevitably going to leave many (perhaps most) people dissatisfied - the only way to make everyone (or as close as possible) happy, is to go ALL THE WAY - all the way back to how it was. This should not be seen as "retrograde" - change for its own sake is NOT progress - progress involves IMPROVEMENT. Also, if (as some have suggested) it's an issue of pride, then please get over that foolishness ASAP! When someone is "big enough" to admit and correct a mistake, my respect for that person INCREASES, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this. Reverting to the previous state will not make you "look weak" or foolish or what-not (to some of us it would, in fact, be praiseworthy) - however, persisting in pursuing a flawed decision WILL be perceived as mulish obstinacy, at best (and likely far worse.) From a decision theory standpoint, investing further development in a stunted interface makes no sense and is a losing proposition, plain and simple.

Getting bogged down in the specifics is losing sight of the forest for the trees at best, or an active diversion at worst. Some of us aren't distracted or fooled by such devious, deceptive shenanigans.