Hrald
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Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2012.02.12 01:25:00 -
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Hey Xenuria,
Incarna had many technical issues that played into the delay. Yes, there was a large amount of player controversy over it, but mainly because of how long it was taking to work through these technical issues. If Incarna had all come in one expansion which would then change CCP's focus back to spaceships, you would not have seen the outcry. Hell, I LIKE the idea of walking in stations and more player interaction because there are a large number of players who would be into that. I'm always willing to try something new, plus I remember how awesome Freelancer was. If I didn't like it, I'd just stay in hangar. But the facts did not line up with the promises.
Instead, we received a dank hovel or a door. It is extraordinarily time consuming to go from the platform to the quarters, which is why you can control most things from the landing platform, but also makes the quarters a bit redundant. We now have all racial quarters, which is nice, though some polish is still needed. Then there's the problem of how much resources it takes to have a decent looking space barbie walking around. Now multiply that by 50 or 100s if you're in a region capital. The average players' hardware would be overloaded or forced to use terrible settings to cope. Considering that Incarna is heavily aesthetics based, the latter would be a huge let down.
This was then compounded upon a couple dodgy expansions which were only half-implemented as well while many glaring problems remained unfixed. Look at how much stuff CCP got done after they reversed course. Imagine if they had been doing that the whole time, how much of this game could have been improved.
The main issue with CCP as a whole was that they were spreading themselves too thin. They were ignoring the spaceships aspect of Eve while developing Dust 514 and World of Darkness, as well as an expansion that did nothing to improve actual gameplay. I can understand how you are frustrated with what actually happened from your point of view, but I think you may be focusing too narrowly upon Incarna and not the health of CCP and Eve in general. Subs were going down, being cancelled, etc. Player log ins dropped. If CCP kept steering the ship into the Maelstrom, the game itself was in jeopardy.
Walking in Stations will come, but it already had a LONG way to go before it could be fully implemented, so in the meantime, fixing stuff that needs to be fixed and finishing the half-implemented previous expansions in order to keep the company financially solvent is of greater concern than doggedly finishing Incarna. |