EVE General Discussion

"We watch what you do, not what you say"

If you really think that's true, and nothing CCP says has value, do you think they should say anything?

Its odd, as I see two lines of thought going on in the forums. One is the above, and the other is CCP does not communicate enough. But as soon as CCP does communicate, they get slapped down with the above statement.

So what do we want them to do?

My suggestion:


Say what you do.
Do what you say.
We watch both.

I agree with your "being transparent and honest." policy.

That being said, we must understand that we all make mistakes and bad choices , including CCP, and must find a constructive way to fix and repair what we can and then move on.

We can't glower over past mistakes, take what we've learn from it and make a better choice next time.

Communication is needed to evaluate the ratio between promises made/promises kept.

It's all part of the watching what you do.

Saying that a blog with the desired information will be published in a week or three, then 2 weeks later such a blog shows up and does in fact contain the information would be "Say what you do, do what you say".

I think the only mistake here is interpreting the phrase to be unilaterally applied to absolutely every last vestige of the company from top to bottom.

i.e. just because some suit says he won't be swayed by popular sentiment more so than empirical subscriber data, does not mean the company wholly and unequivocally follows said doctrine at every possible turn in every conceivable situation.

TLDR
It is a phrase used in certain context, and should be treated as such.

You prefer being vague over being misleading or inacurate. Got that.


Heres a tip. Create a list of EVERYTHING being worked on, then put a status next to it, and release them in monthly reports. STO does this in something called Engineering Report.

Example:

etc.

Exactly this.

I completely understand where you are coming from so ok.

You guys can expect to see an announcement coming, within the next week hopefully, which will cover the next two major patches. As can be seen in Torfi's blog, this will include the return of ship spinning, a new cyno effect and fixes and changes to flying in space.

There are more announcements and Dev Blogs to come about great features we are rolling out which are directly as a result of what you, the players, and the CSM have asked for.

Yes, I know you would like more meat on the bones and it will be coming over the next few weeks. In the mean time, we will keep up communication as often as possible.

So is doing stuff like that hard for CCP? Hope you take the example in your heart and consider a change in methodology to something more along the lines of that stuff i just showed you.

Why would you put that as a quote?

It was never said to us. Go back and find the actual internal email and see what was actually said. Not to us, but to other CCP employees. And if you lived through the whole fiasco it produced, you might, like myself, agree with the sentiment.

That said. I do think the communication could be better, of course. But like any business they need to set a direction and can't be swayed every time some butt hurt whiner that that plays the forum more than the game gets on their soapbox. Nothing would ever get done.

They should be telling us what's in the pipe and that's it. Sure, stick a feedback thread in here to placate the self important armchair game designers that know more than they do. But ignore it completely and continue with the plan they have set up. Switching direction every two weeks to satisfy people who will then find some other thing to whine about is a sure end to the game.

For real.

Mr Epeen