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CCP Focuses on EVE Universe - A CCP Announcement

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Ciar Meara
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#61 - 2011-10-19 14:35:05 UTC
Good news for us, not so good for those who are leaving. But like so many others said allready, this doesn't come as a surprise. The (very) good result of this is that EVE and DUST development will be proceding at a much faster pace as before.

And frankly it shows that CCP can make the hard decisions that where needed after the hubris filled speeches of earlier.

Humble and courageous decisions like this are making me want to resub. I hope many of the Atlanta team can be re tasked to Dust and all the art teams can acclimatise to the frigid Reykjavik climate.

Will this mean that Reynir and TomB (or is he back allready) will return to EVE?

- [img]http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/janus/ceosig.jpg[/img] [yellow]English only please. Zymurgist[/yellow]
ACY GTMI
Veerhouven Group
#62 - 2011-10-19 14:36:13 UTC
I remember the quote about gamers being more attracted to flawed games with cool features rather than games that work predictably and only deploy new features when they have been fully developed and tested.

It appears that you still believe this. Oh well.

My suggestion? Forget the Winter expansion and fix the problems that the last few updates have caused.
Jonas Glim
#63 - 2011-10-19 14:37:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonas Glim
My sympathys go out to those losing their jobs, it's a great shame that the man largely responsible for causing this "refocusing" won't be doing the honourable thing and resigning.
Jada Maroo
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#64 - 2011-10-19 14:37:20 UTC
Unexpectedly great news on the future of Eve by CCP. But it's hard to celebrate when people lose jobs. When Eve's success grows from the renewed focus, maybe you can rehire them - to work on Eve.
Riflin' Betty
Perfunctory
#65 - 2011-10-19 14:41:56 UTC
I think CCP just learned the hard way what the price of disrespecting your customers can be.

I'd have wished for all of you guys to have come to your sense on your own, but your overwhelming arrogance in the face of dedicated customers blinded you to the obvious.

We are not your cash cow.

We will do what we do rather than say.

And we will not be used.

I hope this lesson learned in the most painful way, will carry you on to better future as a more healthy company. Though you have a long way to go still. Let's just hope it's for the best, and that you didn't slice your own bellies with the sword of customer contempt.


-Helicity Boson.
Jada Maroo
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#66 - 2011-10-19 14:43:02 UTC
By the way, I still can't shake the nibbling notion that the Incarna establishments delay and WoD's indefinite postponement has a lot to do with Carbon running like a snail's turd when there's five other characters in the room - let alone dozens or hundreds.
Jolteon Taylor
0 Tax Industrials
#67 - 2011-10-19 14:43:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Jolteon Taylor
Great news for EVEs future, although such a shame it had to happen like this.

I do hope CCP_FallOut gets to keep her job. I do enjoy following her tweets \o/
Jimtom
Fancypants Inc
Pandemic Horde
#68 - 2011-10-19 14:44:49 UTC
Sad news about job loses hope all who are affected find employment speedily, CCPers are the greatest Blink
Barakkus
#69 - 2011-10-19 14:45:29 UTC
Sir HappyPants wrote:
Here's hoping that any and all employment challenged CCPers find a job quickly and without too much hardship on themselves and their family.

Good luck.

::raises a pint::


It won't take too much effort to find SOMETHING, only problem is most programming jobs out there are contract only right now. I've been looking and the only crap I get is calls from recruiters looking for people for contract work. Fortunately, I have seniority and job security at the place I work now, so I can sit back and wait until I find a permanent full time position.

I would venture a guess those laid off with programming skills will probably find work within a few weeks, even though it's probably going to be temporary work.

http://youtu.be/yytbDZrw1jc
Whyumadtho
Doomheim
#70 - 2011-10-19 14:45:33 UTC
Quote:
This will enable us to accelerate timeframes for new features and increase our ability to respond to community needs.


Explain to me how cutting 20% of your staff will accelerate anything.
Sir HappyPants
Caldari Innovations and Research
#71 - 2011-10-19 14:45:35 UTC
Jolteon Taylor wrote:
Great news for EVEs future, although such a shame it had to happen like this.

I do hope CCP_FallOut gets to keep his job. I do enjoy following his tweets \o/


pssst... Fallout is of the female stock.
Member of the #TweetFleet   @thisurlnotfound
Jolteon Taylor
0 Tax Industrials
#72 - 2011-10-19 14:47:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Jolteon Taylor
Sir HappyPants wrote:
Jolteon Taylor wrote:
Great news for EVEs future, although such a shame it had to happen like this.

I do hope CCP_FallOut gets to keep his job. I do enjoy following his tweets \o/


pssst... Fallout is of the female stock.

oh twitsticks, I failed. I had noticed that, but for some reason i by impulse typed 'his' D:

but I fixed it now :D
Mors Magne
Terra Incognita
#73 - 2011-10-19 14:47:19 UTC
I think CCP has made the right decision. My heart goes out to those who will lose their jobs though.
Smoking Blunts
ZC Omega
#74 - 2011-10-19 14:48:32 UTC
oh well shouldnt have ****** off so many players by putting your heads up yours arses hoping your own ill found reasons were right, even though they were pointed out to you as wrong time and time again.

explains the change in gm stance on war dec's at least, less staff = less time for customer service

OMG when can i get a pic here
Kabaos
Fulgur lumene
#75 - 2011-10-19 14:50:42 UTC
OMG u really stupid's?

When to you say it's hard to do everything at once (Dust ,WOD ) you continue to develop the project..



You need to concentrate your work on Dust ..When dust will completed after that start WOD..

You haven't enough money to support Dust,EVE and fuc..ng WOD
Chris Stormrider
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#76 - 2011-10-19 14:50:53 UTC
Whyumadtho wrote:
Explain to me how cutting 20% of your staff will accelerate anything.


^^ this

Also, to all the people saying they understand, it may be that the refocus to EVE and Fis is good but the ends do not justify the means. I'm still not convinced they know what they're doing...
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#77 - 2011-10-19 14:54:30 UTC
ACY GTMI wrote:
I remember the quote about gamers being more attracted to flawed games with cool features rather than games that work predictably and only deploy new features when they have been fully developed and tested.

It appears that you still believe this. Oh well.

My suggestion? Forget the Winter expansion and fix the problems that the last few updates have caused.


Er, the Winter expansion is exactly about fixing problems.

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Bloodpetal
Tir Capital Management Group
#78 - 2011-10-19 14:54:32 UTC


Tough decisions and consequences.


EVE isn't a "Golden Goose". We're players, consumers and people. At the end of the day, this comes back to decisions made months and months ago.


I was really excited to see what would happen in WOD after the news article written up. It sounded freaking awesome for an MMO. I hope this doesn't get pushed back too far - and I hope DUST's knock out success will find CCP looking to re-establish getting WOD out there sooner than later and maybe getting some of those great designers back on deck.


I wish CCP the best on getting these next projects successfully launched and back on track for everyone.





Where I am.
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#79 - 2011-10-19 14:55:56 UTC
Whyumadtho wrote:
Quote:
This will enable us to accelerate timeframes for new features and increase our ability to respond to community needs.


Explain to me how cutting 20% of your staff will accelerate anything.


Because some of the 80% who remain are being re-purposed from WoD to EVE

(reading is hard :( )

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Barakkus
#80 - 2011-10-19 14:57:01 UTC
Chris Stormrider wrote:
Whyumadtho wrote:
Explain to me how cutting 20% of your staff will accelerate anything.


^^ this

Also, to all the people saying they understand, it may be that the refocus to EVE and Fis is good but the ends do not justify the means. I'm still not convinced they know what they're doing...


It's called "we don't have enough money to pay everyone anymore"

We got the exact same speech at work last February when a number of our largest clients walked. Everyone had to take a "temporary" 10% pay cut and they laid off 20 people. Now we're "refocusing" on our core business as opposed to all the stupid little development projects that had nothing to do with our main business products. They realized they ****** up for the most part and let all the wrong people make all the decisions about the direction of the company and ****** the rest of us.

Unfortunately, now most of the people that can really do anything to pull us out of the mess are finding new jobs, myself included...hopefully it won't take me much longer to find another permanent position elsewhere. Having 10+ years experience in windows application programming is getting me lots of calls, unfortunately it's all contract work at the moment...

http://youtu.be/yytbDZrw1jc