Ryunosuke Kusanagi
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Posted - 2011.09.09 19:20:00 -
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Vincent Athena wrote:The Mittani wrote:Vincent Athena wrote:You know, your proposals to CCP would not be covered by the NDA if you told us what they were BEFORE you talked to CCP. We've made no secret about CSM6's desire to see more resources allocated to FiS. I'm not sure what part of our message you didn't understand from the blizzard of media coverage, podcasts, blogs, and CSM member posts during this controversy. You can lead a poster to the internet, but you can't make him r>c>p. The details is what I don't understand. Like how much effort you propose to be shifted, what you propose to do with incarna (have it become yet another abandoned feature?) and so on. Do you think that eve should get more funding that the income from subscriptions and PLEX sales? If the money being spent of FiS is equal to the subscriptions, is it OK for CCP to spend money on WiS, Dust, Wod? One of the above CSM members said that there was stuff CSM proposed that cannot be talked about because it was covered by the NDA. So there must have been CSM proposals that have not been in the media coverage, since if it was in the media coverage, it would be public and not under an NDA. All Im saying is you could have given us that information first, before it got locked up under a NDA.
This is a valid concern, and to me, it is starting to sound like "Damn CCP if they do, Damn them if they don't!" situation. While the CSM is supposed, and try, to bring valid concerns to CCP, I think, that by the nature of the game (ie. populist theory) they are kinda failing at it. I definately want FiS worked on more as of late, but, I don't want Incarna to be finished as it is now, I would like to see different CQ, I would like to see in Station Shops, etc. I don't care about the NDA, that is a non-issue, that happens all the time in games. The core problem, is what is going on within CCP (again) and what is being done about it? I would like ideally, would be more... direction from CCP. What I mean is a regular blog post stating "This is what we are working on and is slated for x amount of months, this is the progress we are making on it, etc." The last I heard about Incarna was that the other "CQ was coming out in a few months." This was back in July-ish. And couple of days ago, through a twitter feed, stating *soon (tm)* but nothing more specific than that unfortunately :(
As for FiS/WiS correlation, I have one analogy to make, Star Trek. In the course of Star Trek History (especially TNG), how many actual battles took place vs. how many scenes in the Holodeck, Captain's Quarters, Med Bay, 10 Forward, etc. actually happened? I KNOW YOU ARE GONNA SAY, "BUT THIS ISN'T STAR TREK, THIS IS EVE!" I know, I know, but every space themed Media is different, as an example. SWG is different from SW movies, SWTOR is different from SW Movies AND SWG. Star Trek is different from SW, Freelancer is different from the above, Dark Star One is different, etc. Just because they add Incarna, doesn't mean that you cannot fly in space, though integral as it may be, it's just another feature, and one that it seems to be pushed towards "incomplete" as per Faction Warfare, etc. |