mier
Sicarri Covenant
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Posted - 2007.06.02 22:06:00 -
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Edited by: mier on 02/06/2007 22:10:39
Finally read most posts, & god theres a lot...
TY goon for doing/saying something..
Half of eve has the same suspitions, & now more info has been revealed about CCP members being to involved IN-GAME..
For me CCP should NEVER be able to play in-game, Put v.well in this quote:-
Originally by: Malloc Memrel
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This is the first and probably only post on eve-o I'll ever make, as I've never been much of a "Game X Forums" kind of guy, but I had to say this.
As an ex-Blizzard employee, I am flabbergasted at the extent to which developer presence contaminates the player pool. With WoW there wasn't a line between our player accounts and our personal accounts- there was a wall, a moat, a spike-filled trench, and electrified barbed wire. You so much as tried to enter a developer command into the console, you'd be kicked from the server, your account would be flagged, and unless you had a really damn good rason for attempting to bring developer capabilities into the game your ass was fired. You told no one anything about the game behind the curtain, you never told anyone in-game that you even worked for the company, or your ass was fired. The impetus for crossing that line in eve is entirely beyond me.
And don't start for a second with "We need to see how things work." Rubbish. You've got one of the most robust test servers known to MMOs, you've got ridiculously fluid interaction from your player base (At least from the bottom-up) and if nothing else you could have internal servers to try things on. Having anyone with even the possibility of developer powers in the public server is nothing short of madness. Having powers above and beyond normal players, or having access to information beyond the average player, is akin to putting water in chocolate- a single drop can cause a whole batch to sieze and it's ruined just like that.
"But what about GMs?" you ask. Fair enough, they need certain powers to set things right. But they should only ever exist in the game when no other option presents itself. They should be invisible, intangible, a last resort for a coding malfunction or dispute that requires GM omniscience to solve. They should not be people but a service, identifiable only to the point that they can be held accountable for their actions. If you tried to log in as a GM account anywhere but at Blizzard's GM center, hell, if you even hinted that you had a GM account, you'd be canned so fast your head would spin. That CCP would willingly and intentionally contaminate the public player base with what amounts to demi-gods with varying degrees of moral fortitude just boggles my mind.
I could'nt put it any better myself, & in my eyes the only way i'll ever feel this game COULD get back on track is ALL CPP members stop playing eve..as stated above..
Now pll, whoever u are, This is a paying game, its a business, some1 is making a lot of very real money.. this is a very serious situation(as stated above)..
I'd like to demand fair play for every1 & close all CCP game accounts, but i don't have a MSN link, any1????( i should'nt jess but could'nt help it)
CCP, seriously, u would restore my confidence in the game if i knew u were'nt involved with it directly, honestly, & it would show me your true commitment to developing a gd game for every1 to enjoy..
Until then having in-game powers to replace losses, your's or a "FRIENDS" is to great, & to tempting, i think 50% of players would replace the odd faction fitt'd ship if we knew we had the power to do it, & that affects every1 imo
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