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Posted - 2012.01.22 10:40:00 -
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If you read the minutes you might agree with what some of the CSM members propose or you might disagree but at least it will get you informed about what the CSM actually does.
I think we should be grateful that we have a body that does represent the players, you might say they represent certain alliances only but ultimately they still represent the players and not the company. The CSM is a body that makes decisions to improve the player experience; it is nice to have a body that is independent of the company (CCP) in order to get a different perspective.
What other video-game has a body like the CSM. I mean just the minutes briefing was 44 pages long of pure text, imagine how many hours of meetings are put into that by players in order to enhance our experience of the game and ensure that CCP does not get too carried away with changes that only benefit them as a company.
I implore you to take a look at other developers and see the changes they make to their games. Blizzard forces you to use your full name for their Real ID implementation and there was a huge outcry from players, but those players had to use other outlets to protest on, people made youtube videos and many bitched on the forums but if that was considered to be an option for CCP the CSM would express deep concerns and tell CCP it would be a bad idea (see CSM minutes concerning security for more details).
I think we as players really undervalue how CCP manages their game. Eve has a common price index, inflation of isk is actually monitored, statistics are kept and organized and most importantly analyzed. I don't think other developers put as much effort into their game as CCP does, and the CSM exists for that reason; I do not think CCP developers want to spend the extra hours required in formal meetings where everything in documented in order to hear the CSM complain about things that should be changed about EVE but guess what, we have that privilege.
I hope people would not be so narrow-eyed in thinking that developers only want $ and the CSM only wants changes that will benefit them. Developers are like artists and EVE is their masterpiece. Devs put so much time, effort and passion into something that at the end of the day they can say, "I helped make this universe"; devs are geeks just like us. I would hope that people don't imagine CCP employees as young guys in sleek suits with hair gelled back exclaiming that the only thing that matters is the bottum line. I think that if any of us were fortunate enough to meet some developers face-to-face we would smile and shake their hands while saying "thank you, for helping make a game that has an effect on my emotions; the excitement of winning a fleet battle with friends, the sadness of losing an expensive ship, the disappointment of not overheating my tackle to grab a nice kill before it gets away, the anxiety of repping a ship out of structure in an incursion/fleet battle, the conversations had during mining and the people I've met thanks for all of it." The dev would smile back and say "my pleasure."
Where am I going with all this? I'm saying if CCP see's EVE as it's work of art it will do whatever it thinks best to help improve EVE so that other people can enjoy it too and what CCP has chosen to do is make the CSM.
I don't believe the CSM only tries to enforce changes that will only benefit them. I'm sure many of the CSM members own supers yet the super nerf still went through and in the last CSM minutes that were released there was talk about other super changes as well.
We should not be so quick to criticize, I say why not give thanks for CSM members and CCP devs that take the time they don't have to in-order to have a player to developer interaction that ultimately wishes to improve the game we all play. |