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Encouraging...
how long will you leave us in limbo?

meh at buggy forums eating my wall of text :(

I'm rapidly realising that CCP are better trolls than we are

CCP killed the dream, "excellence, deliver & soon™" are now bywords for CCP incompetence and mismanagement.

CCP Zulu needs to take a class in Public Relations and learn how to talk to people that pay his employer money every month. We're not rabble, we're paying customers and as such deserve a little respect.

Dev blogs without content are not worth publishing, "we're working on spaceships" would have got a much more positive reaction than the vapid effort that started this threadnaught. Buzz words just don't cut it when your products biggest fans have lost faith in the games direction.

The gameplay itself encourages us to be evil, backstabbing, dishonest, manipulative and downright nasty. Player driven propaganda, content, advertising & media far outweighs anything that CCP put out. When Eve hits the headlines 90% of the time it does so because of player driven events, could be a massive ponzi scheme, a huge corp theft or burning down the trade hubs because the NEX store is priced stupidly (and it is stupid, micro means small not the cost of a damn plex). The evil backstabbing part comes out when CCP screw stuff up and the players have to resort to the gaming media to air their concerns because CCP have their lalalala earplugs in where the "rabble" concerned, they only listen when it becomes known outside the game and their income and image could be affected.

Alienating the fan base by releasing content that is either unfinished, poorly executed or just plain unwanted, and insulting them is not a good way to gain new players, especially when the fans are the ones that do most of the advertising by word of mouth.

Crowd Control Productions? recently it's been more like Comedy Central Productions. The cats are now out of the bags, good luck with herding cats CCP

They should have taken it one step at a time, keep working on EVE and maybe start some development on a second game but not dropped EVE almost entirely for two other game developments. Using EVE as live testing for features of your new games is completely unacceptable and we will not tolerate it.

This is our stand as both players of EVE and paying customers against neglect of the game we love and we will not backdown, we will see that this is all corrected or we shall witness the fall of CCP.

Wow, There are so many opinions floating around about what should be done, its a wonder anything gets done. Some say CCP promises too much and deliver too little, and when they respond to that by holding back on forecasting future direction others pipe up and say they don't say enough. The CSM members seem to express just as diverse views. It will take me a year to sort this all out to understand what do we want. But I know we're now Walking in station now, Or more like "Pacing in Room" we're working on populating the planets; Something is happening in 0.0 to Sovereignty. Changes are being made to the UI; the game looks damn good; and for its complexity it works damn good; and, we've got a new Forum that hopefully will help me make sense of all this. I have been around a little more than a year now, and it is all so complex, I need another year to figure out what's been going on from last year to this year. I guess its just a good job around, the player-base blast CCP so hard and from so many directions, CCP actually performs well above my expectations in rising to the occasion to meet player demands, therefore excelling in this game production. And by the way, when my wife asks, "Are you still playing that GAME?. I seriously reply, "It's not a game. It's a simulator. A life simulator." But she walks away mumbling, "It's a game." A damn good game it is.

CCP HQ, a few hours after the blog post:

The intern runs and abrupty interrupts The CEO. He hates when people enter his office during tea.

- Hilmar, Hilmar, we have a problem.
- What is it, intern?
- People are complaining and bitching again in the forums!!!
- AGAIN? Release the Zulu!
- A-a-re you sure?
- Enough! Release the Zulu!

CCP is becoming a pretty good case on how not to run PR in the game industry.

Reported your post.

"trolling
no content
insulting players"

soon™
iterate™
watch this space™
dev blog™
excellence™
deliver™

Am I missing any other CCP-speak for "nothing's gonna happen"? Please don't let refocus™ become a thing.

To be honest.

I am pissed as anyone at CCP but please some bloddy patience.

If the new ship spin option. and the other stuff gets implemented it ia good first step.

And if I think what they doing is actually what they doing now it is totally undestandable that it is going to take some time.


CCP please do NOT disapoint again because IF you do I am pretty sure that is going to be the end of this game.
which would be a shame.

No, I don't have any patience left. CCP focus on shaders for hello capsuleer online, and not spaceships? They have chosen this path for development since their last "hick"up, where the CSM was flown to Iceland? They knew what we, the "rabble", wanted and they didn't care. Now, patience? No, simple as that. They choose a freekin' font over spaceships?! Now, if I actually cared for this game I might take offence...

The ship spin was TAKEN OUT, it's not a new feature by any means. The code exists already. It's a good, "bring the game back on track" step - they will however *NOT* get, nor do they deserve, credit for re-implementing something they never should have removed in the first place. They effed up, big time, and now they pay the price. It's the very least they can do.


/raven