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Reva Dantenov
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#61 - 2011-09-08 22:22:36 UTC
Gaia Ma'chello wrote:
Rainus Max wrote:
Gaia Ma'chello wrote:
The Mittani wrote:
........

The CSM is exerting pressure as a community to try to get the management to allocate more resources to the game we all love - a SPACESHIP game.
......



But if CCP management chooses to ignores you, ingnore the press, ignore the comments from the community and so on, how can you put any pressure on them at all?


I think the simple answer to that is you dont, CCP will continue to dive towards the floor and Eve dies a slow and painful death.


Then I'm right back to my original question: If all this activity to put pressure on CCP will not prevent the event of "Eve dies a slow and painful death", then why do it? Wouldn't it be better to spend our time figuring out something what would work? (No I'm not sure what that would be. The best Ive thought of is face to face meetings with the investors of CCP).


Wait, wait.

You're a time traveler from the future, and instead of bringing lotto numbers you came back to the past to tell us that the media campaign won't work?

Ponies ponies ponies ponies.
Gaia Ma'chello
Photosynth
#62 - 2011-09-08 22:27:17 UTC
The Mittani wrote:


Historically CCP management is quite reactive to the press. See: Monoclegate, T20, Summer of Rage. It's actually the only consistently effective tactic that players have found to get CCP's management to change their course.

As much as you might want to wring your hands in hysteria, media pressure as an effective strategy is not new, and this is not the first time it has been deployed.


That was then. This is now.

Now they may be so invested in the two new games that they may feel its best to ignore any bad press about the current situation, assuming it will either blow over, or not be so damaging that they cannot make it all back when the new games come out. They may be thinking: "Don't worry about it. When everyone sees the new games they will think its so utterly AWESOME that all will be forgiven!"

I really think you need a Plan B here, something to do if CCP management simply ignores the bad press, or just gives it lip service.
DrDan21
Perkone
Caldari State
#63 - 2011-09-08 22:27:35 UTC
Jowen Datloran wrote:
There is just this slight issue with DUST already being announced to be released next year. I have no doubt CCP management will throw any and all resources at this for it to accomplish and getting them to prioritize differently in any greater level will be practically impossible.


No one is going to buy Dust when all they hear about the company's current flagship game is:

Refuses to listen to players
Terrible at making things fun
Lag everywhere
Unbalanced stuff
Features broken and ignored for years at a time
The Mittani
State War Academy
Caldari State
#64 - 2011-09-08 22:31:18 UTC
Gaia Ma'chello wrote:
The Mittani wrote:


Historically CCP management is quite reactive to the press. See: Monoclegate, T20, Summer of Rage. It's actually the only consistently effective tactic that players have found to get CCP's management to change their course.

As much as you might want to wring your hands in hysteria, media pressure as an effective strategy is not new, and this is not the first time it has been deployed.


That was then. This is now.

Now they may be so invested in the two new games that they may feel its best to ignore any bad press about the current situation, assuming it will either blow over, or not be so damaging that they cannot make it all back when the new games come out. They may be thinking: "Don't worry about it. When everyone sees the new games they will think its so utterly AWESOME that all will be forgiven!"

I really think you need a Plan B here, something to do if CCP management simply ignores the bad press, or just gives it lip service.



We'll see how it goes.

If I do have a Plan B, I'm not going to reveal it until Plan A fails.

~hi~
Rainus Max
Fusion Enterprises Ltd
Pandemic Horde
#65 - 2011-09-08 22:34:36 UTC
Gaia Ma'chello wrote:
Rainus Max wrote:
Gaia Ma'chello wrote:
The Mittani wrote:
........

The CSM is exerting pressure as a community to try to get the management to allocate more resources to the game we all love - a SPACESHIP game.
......



But if CCP management chooses to ignores you, ingnore the press, ignore the comments from the community and so on, how can you put any pressure on them at all?


I think the simple answer to that is you dont, CCP will continue to dive towards the floor and Eve dies a slow and painful death.


Then I'm right back to my original question: If all this activity to put pressure on CCP will not prevent the event of "Eve dies a slow and painful death", then why do it? Wouldn't it be better to spend our time figuring out something what would work? (No I'm not sure what that would be. The best Ive thought of is face to face meetings with the investors of CCP).


That's assuming that CCP ignore the bad press, they do that they seriously risk losing potential customers and future products being tainted. The last great "poop-storm" that reared its ugly head we got a couple of blogs and a 'it will all blow over soon' attitude, once the press got their hands on it the tune changed pretty rapidly and an emergency CSM meeting was held, huge promises were made etc etc. 4 months later what do we have to show of ANY progress? Basically.... a photo of a white board with a few ideas which potentially are going to take 5 years to deploy.

Personally I'm holding out to winter before I make the decision to stay or leave, if this patch falls flat on its face like the last couple I dont see the point of sticking around, which is a shame after 5 years of playing, 2 fanfests and a hell of a lot of good friendships.
Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpaid Tactical Team
#66 - 2011-09-08 22:35:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Meryl SinGarda
The Mittani wrote:
Gaia Ma'chello wrote:
I'm completely missing something about this "war on the management of CCP". What if they simply ignore it? Say nothing and keep doing what they are doing in allocating resources?

The goal of the war is to get a better game by having more resources used on Eve. Helping to kill off subscriptions, lowering the resources available, does not seem to be a way to get that goal.

What am I missing? How can we pressure CCP, other than trying to kill the game we are trying to save?


You might be missing a lot, since there's no 'war'. The CSM is exerting pressure as a community to try to get the management to allocate more resources to the game we all love - a SPACESHIP game.

The CSM has not called for unsubs, or for 'war'. I'd suggest you start reading primary sources, rather than hyperbolic summaries on eve-o.


Mittani, as large as your ego may be, even you have completely missed the point and/or theme of EVE. I think the average derper can tell you that flying Spaceships is a big part of EVE, but this is not entirely, 100% a spaceship GAME. Once you realize this, well, your face might explode.

We are playing a space simulator. Exploration, combat, mining, station trading, politics, corporation management and (soon) player interaction via station establishments.

Tell me again that this is simply a spaceship game, or give me your CSM chair, because, obviously, I understand this game better than you and I've only been around since '09.
Denidil
Cascades Mountain Operatives
#67 - 2011-09-08 22:37:28 UTC
Sha Dar wrote:
Gullible noobies prepared to fully support this Pay2win garbage..


exactly WHAT pay2win garbage is that?

there are no game affecting items in the NeX store
CCP has said there will not be game affecting items in the nex store.

WHAT PAY2WIN GARBAGE IS THERE IN THE GAME RIGHT NOW?


none.

in otherwords - stop talking out your ass because your mouth knows better

Tedium and difficulty are not the same thing, if you don't realize this then STFU about game design.
Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#68 - 2011-09-08 22:39:40 UTC
Rainus Max wrote:
Gaia Ma'chello wrote:
Rainus Max wrote:
Gaia Ma'chello wrote:
The Mittani wrote:
........

The CSM is exerting pressure as a community to try to get the management to allocate more resources to the game we all love - a SPACESHIP game.
......



But if CCP management chooses to ignores you, ingnore the press, ignore the comments from the community and so on, how can you put any pressure on them at all?


I think the simple answer to that is you dont, CCP will continue to dive towards the floor and Eve dies a slow and painful death.


Then I'm right back to my original question: If all this activity to put pressure on CCP will not prevent the event of "Eve dies a slow and painful death", then why do it? Wouldn't it be better to spend our time figuring out something what would work? (No I'm not sure what that would be. The best Ive thought of is face to face meetings with the investors of CCP).


That's assuming that CCP ignore the bad press, they do that they seriously risk losing potential customers and future products being tainted. The last great "poop-storm" that reared its ugly head we got a couple of blogs and a 'it will all blow over soon' attitude, once the press got their hands on it the tune changed pretty rapidly and an emergency CSM meeting was held, huge promises were made etc etc. 4 months later what do we have to show of ANY progress? Basically.... a photo of a white board with a few ideas which potentially are going to take 5 years to deploy.

Personally I'm holding out to winter before I make the decision to stay or leave, if this patch falls flat on its face like the last couple I dont see the point of sticking around, which is a shame after 5 years of playing, 2 fanfests and a hell of a lot of good friendships.


CCP has ignored bad press before, only to react when it reaches a DEFCON 1 shitstorm. And no doubt they will continue to ignore it until it explodes in their faces again.

Personally, I am confident that the winter expansion will be as poorly executed as Dominion but suck at least as bad as Incarna, so I am not holding my breath over it.

Agent of Chaos, Sower of Discord.

Don't talk to me unless you are IQ verified and certified with three references from non-family members. Please have your certificate of authenticity on hand.
Denidil
Cascades Mountain Operatives
#69 - 2011-09-08 22:39:48 UTC
Meryl SinGarda wrote:
The Mittani wrote:
Gaia Ma'chello wrote:
I'm completely missing something about this "war on the management of CCP". What if they simply ignore it? Say nothing and keep doing what they are doing in allocating resources?

The goal of the war is to get a better game by having more resources used on Eve. Helping to kill off subscriptions, lowering the resources available, does not seem to be a way to get that goal.

What am I missing? How can we pressure CCP, other than trying to kill the game we are trying to save?


You might be missing a lot, since there's no 'war'. The CSM is exerting pressure as a community to try to get the management to allocate more resources to the game we all love - a SPACESHIP game.

The CSM has not called for unsubs, or for 'war'. I'd suggest you start reading primary sources, rather than hyperbolic summaries on eve-o.


Mittani, as large as your ego may be, even you have completely missed the point and/or theme of EVE. I think the average derper can tell you that flying Spaceships is a big part of EVE, but this is not entirely, 100% a spaceship GAME. Once you realize this, well, your face might explode.

We are playing a space simulator. Exploration, combat, mining, station trading, politics, corporation management and (soon) player interaction via station establishments.

Tell me again that this is simply a spaceship game, or give me your CSM chair, because, obviously, I understand this game better than you and I've only been around since '09.


i think both of you are being over the top

eve is primarily a spaceship game. but Incarna does have it's place as well to increase the richness of the universe.

but more time needs to be spend on FiS and if they're going to do WiS DO IT RIGHT - stop doing half arsed releases.

Tedium and difficulty are not the same thing, if you don't realize this then STFU about game design.
Solomunio Kzenig
Incursions Missions and Mining
#70 - 2011-09-08 22:51:26 UTC
The neglect from €€P towards their only source of revenue makes me glad I've cancelled my sub. Ah well, all good things come to an end. Fly Safe
Sha Dar
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#71 - 2011-09-08 22:52:25 UTC
Denidil wrote:

there are no game affecting items in the NeX store
CCP has said there will not be game affecting items in the nex store.



If you really believe the situation is going to remain that way, then you are more gullible than the people ccp are trying to replace the current playerbase with.

The purpose of life is not to make a living, but to make a difference...
RougeOperator
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#72 - 2011-09-08 22:58:00 UTC
The Mittani wrote:
Gaia Ma'chello wrote:
The Mittani wrote:


Historically CCP management is quite reactive to the press. See: Monoclegate, T20, Summer of Rage. It's actually the only consistently effective tactic that players have found to get CCP's management to change their course.

As much as you might want to wring your hands in hysteria, media pressure as an effective strategy is not new, and this is not the first time it has been deployed.


That was then. This is now.

Now they may be so invested in the two new games that they may feel its best to ignore any bad press about the current situation, assuming it will either blow over, or not be so damaging that they cannot make it all back when the new games come out. They may be thinking: "Don't worry about it. When everyone sees the new games they will think its so utterly AWESOME that all will be forgiven!"

I really think you need a Plan B here, something to do if CCP management simply ignores the bad press, or just gives it lip service.



We'll see how it goes.

If I do have a Plan B, I'm not going to reveal it until Plan A fails.


You should just go with plan B now. And maybe C and D while you are at it.

Time to treat it like a hot drop operation and bring as much firepower as you can muster all at once.

**Space wizards are real, they can make 10058 votes vanish. "and for a moment i hurd 10k goons cry out, then silence" **
Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpaid Tactical Team
#73 - 2011-09-08 22:58:10 UTC
Denidil wrote:
Meryl SinGarda wrote:
The Mittani wrote:
Gaia Ma'chello wrote:
I'm completely missing something about this "war on the management of CCP". What if they simply ignore it? Say nothing and keep doing what they are doing in allocating resources?

The goal of the war is to get a better game by having more resources used on Eve. Helping to kill off subscriptions, lowering the resources available, does not seem to be a way to get that goal.

What am I missing? How can we pressure CCP, other than trying to kill the game we are trying to save?


You might be missing a lot, since there's no 'war'. The CSM is exerting pressure as a community to try to get the management to allocate more resources to the game we all love - a SPACESHIP game.

The CSM has not called for unsubs, or for 'war'. I'd suggest you start reading primary sources, rather than hyperbolic summaries on eve-o.


Mittani, as large as your ego may be, even you have completely missed the point and/or theme of EVE. I think the average derper can tell you that flying Spaceships is a big part of EVE, but this is not entirely, 100% a spaceship GAME. Once you realize this, well, your face might explode.

We are playing a space simulator. Exploration, combat, mining, station trading, politics, corporation management and (soon) player interaction via station establishments.

Tell me again that this is simply a spaceship game, or give me your CSM chair, because, obviously, I understand this game better than you and I've only been around since '09.


i think both of you are being over the top

eve is primarily a spaceship game. but Incarna does have it's place as well to increase the richness of the universe.

but more time needs to be spend on FiS and if they're going to do WiS DO IT RIGHT - stop doing half arsed releases.


And I don't disagree that equal time should be spent on both FiS and WiS, but making a simple generalization and calling EVE a spaceship game takes away some of a player's credibility, in my eyes.
The Mittani
State War Academy
Caldari State
#74 - 2011-09-08 23:25:07 UTC  |  Edited by: The Mittani
RougeOperator wrote:
The Mittani wrote:


We'll see how it goes.

If I do have a Plan B, I'm not going to reveal it until Plan A fails.


You should just go with plan B now. And maybe C and D while you are at it.

Time to treat it like a hot drop operation and bring as much firepower as you can muster all at once.



I disagree. The goal here is not to indiscriminately blast CCP. EVE is in a crisis, and we're trying to pressure the management into reallocating resources to FiS to save the game from stagnation. Indiscriminately lashing out doesn't help achieve that goal.

I have, in the past, indiscriminately lashed out at CCP - in 2007, during the T20 crisis. I've learned a lot since then. The worst thing about lashing out indiscriminately is that it dilutes your message and provides an easy refutation to anything you're saying; your arguments can be dismissed as a tantrum.

Moreover, lashing out at CCP by using every possible tactic loses sight of the entire purpose of our actions. A massive push might send EVE over the edge, and that kind of chaos is also impossible to control. Events take on a life of their own; you can't back away from the precipice.

It's also important to keep in mind your path to victory. If you 'unload', you lose sight of that. The CSM has a clear path to victory: Media pressure -> FiS Reallocation -> CSM Spotlights the Reallocation and praises CCP -> CSM works with CCP to restore interest in EVE. If we throw the kitchen sink at CCP, it's makes it difficult to work with them once the crisis is resolved to salvage the situation.

~hi~
Denidil
Cascades Mountain Operatives
#75 - 2011-09-08 23:27:01 UTC
Solomunio Kzenig wrote:
The neglect from €€P towards their only source of revenue makes me glad I've cancelled my sub. Ah well, all good things come to an end. Fly Safe


your stuff, can i haz?

Tedium and difficulty are not the same thing, if you don't realize this then STFU about game design.
Denidil
Cascades Mountain Operatives
#76 - 2011-09-08 23:28:53 UTC
Sha Dar wrote:
Denidil wrote:

there are no game affecting items in the NeX store
CCP has said there will not be game affecting items in the nex store.



If you really believe the situation is going to remain that way, then you are more gullible than the people ccp are trying to replace the current playerbase with.


if you really think it will change, then you're a paranoid delusional.


see? we can both make ridiculous statements.

Do i think 100% that they won't break their word? of course not
Do i think people who assume CCP won't keep their word are correct? no - i don't take the opinions of jackasses on the internet into account.


plus the person was talking as if there were ALREADY game affecting items in the gmae. which their aren't. so i ask again "What pay2win garbage"?

Tedium and difficulty are not the same thing, if you don't realize this then STFU about game design.
White Tree
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#77 - 2011-09-08 23:50:39 UTC
If your primary concern with articles like this is The Mittani's ego and not the sense that he and the CSM by extension are talking then you might not be surprised to learn that you have no interest in EVE being a better game and are more interested in the shallow lows of sensationalism. Also Mittens is a cool bro irl so ~back off nerds~.

Former member of CSM6.
Gefen Orion
Icebox Industries
#78 - 2011-09-08 23:51:46 UTC
I have to support this. The lack of major content update on the FIS for the past year is saddening, to say the least. Eve will die if this continues. Please don't let it happen.

This CSM statement was long overdue. Finally, they got it right.
Cedar Locus
Fleet 2 die
#79 - 2011-09-08 23:55:05 UTC
this thread makes me feel sick
Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpaid Tactical Team
#80 - 2011-09-08 23:58:08 UTC
White Tree wrote:
If your primary concern with articles like this is The Mittani's ego and not the sense that he and the CSM by extension are talking then you might not be surprised to learn that you have no interest in EVE being a better game and are more interested in the shallow lows of sensationalism. Also Mittens is a cool bro irl so ~back off nerds~.


Credibility destroyed.

FATALITY.