EVE General Discussion

Instead of that, we got... doh, why bother? We all know how's been the WiS business for the last year, and so far CCP can't even care to deliver TA's devblog after delaying it with all the emergency spam being delivered because of the broken Ui.

Seems only a small portion of the player base shares your opinion, and everyone knows what opinions are like.

With all these responses in these WiS threads it seems that players are really polarized on the topic. I for one became interested in EVE post Incarna, and don't come from a WoW background (played lots of Sims though) like many of you. It is obvious though that while many of us are eagerly awaiting more WiS, many are also not interested and a few even feel threatened by it for some weird reason. The absolute worst thing CCP can do for either side would be to force players to use these features, like the brief period after CQ were introduced before hangers were reintegrated. I feel people should be able to play Eve without having to even realize WiS is there, and maybe (but probably not) have the opposite be true. From what I hear this is the approach that Dust is taking in regards with Eve. This way CCP can create a solid PS3 home styled "game" that could potentially bring in new players, and have an in station economy (bars and stuff) tie in with the Eve/Dust economy. I don't see any of this happening soon, but I think that CCP needs to keep their old players happy while also introducing new ones.

CCP essentially put spaceships on hold for over a year to work on Incarna, and delivered the most content-free piece of crap yet seen in the game, with a frankly insulting cash shop bolted on to it. That's why many players are actively hostile towards Incarna, because having seen what happened last time they have no faith in CCP to use the development resources wisely and produce something worthwhile, and worry that in the meantime existing features badly needing iteration or outright reconstruction will rot in the corner whilst CCP work on designing more monocles and content-free Captain's Quarters.

I can completely understand players feeling 'threatened' by WiS, because last time CCP went to work on it the result was such a ****-up that it genuinely did threaten the health of Eve as a whole. I'm personally prepared to believe that CCP has mostly learned the lessons of Incarna as they seem to be making all the right noises about how they intend to proceed this time around, but it's hardly surprising that some remain sceptical.

The dev blog due out soon should hopefully throw more light on this.