EVE General Discussion

Maybe Unifex could come in this thread and explain the reason for this BS.

Must be a good reason , i am curious.

Keeping a lot of customers happy with a certain progress and then simply shut up about it ,is hard to give a reason to it ,i guess.

So Unifex ,care to give out a good reason??

So, if we spent all our free Aurum, would this encourage more WIS stuff?

(I'm kinda saving it for something.... I'm not sure what, but something...)

Well done Ish... now I dislike you too...

EDIT: And agreed... WHY CCP!? I would have thrown my credit card at you!

uhh you still can?

Well someone was moaning about apparel being available only via FW lps?

I don't really see why people insist so much on that devblog - CCP doesn't really have anything to win by getting people's hopes up for something that may or may not be delivered in 1 - 2 years.

We had a few of such "long-term" blogs during the last year (null-sec revamp & tiericide off the top of my head) and response to them was very positive at first but turned sour (to the point that CCP would probably have been better off not publishing them at all) after just a few months.

12+ months from the point that management gives a "go ahead" decision and it is uncertain whether management actually wants to give green light or not... you are just asking CCP to provide another cross that we can crucify them on 3-6 months after the devblog has been published.

There also is a very obvious "office politics" angle to this - there is a fine line between "just trying to gauge player interest" (which is very important & valuable work) and "rallying angry players to bypass regular decision processes and pressure management into allocating more resources to my pet project".
Rank and file developers banding together with users against management is absolutely poisonous to any company as both devs and users have only very limited knowledge of the overall strategic plans and restrictions that influence management decisions and it is all too easy to rally a pitchfork carrying mob because "management is obviously wrong and ignores me".


Is this still on the "gauging interest" side of the line?

Multiplayer Bedrooms. N'uff said.

It haves the same goal as learning to make up your avatar: personal rewards, in the wide sense of the word.

You should really consider that about 100% of the people on this planet don't really dictate their lives around what you like or how you like to do things.

I personally play several clients and I do use the station environment. For you to feel that the entire community should be deprived of gameplay and graphical advancement because of your personal situation is pathetic.

WiS only adds to Eve and does not take 1 thing away from the core idea of the game. Complaining about something like this indicates a severe character issue that you are going to have to sort out for yourself.

Most companies would just continue to develop their software to meet the current technology standards not really caring that you are trying to use a 10 year old computer. CCP on the other hand has done a very good job of trying to meet the demands of the entire playerbase while trying to keep advancing the game in a manner that won't spark complaints from fat elitist losers that simply can't wrap their minds around the reality of "if you don't like it, nobody is forcing you to use it".

Simply put, Eve needs WiS. If you don't like it, you are more than welcome to turn your station environment off and live your lonely life in your pod...nothing changes for you so your complaints are no more relevant than farts in the wind.

Of course. This is why I've been subbing and unsubbing my accounts since past october.