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CCP Focuses on EVE Universe - A CCP Announcement

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Reverand Pastor
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#341 - 2011-10-19 21:06:42 UTC
Magnus Orin wrote:
Helena Russell Makanen wrote:
Peregrinus Falco wrote:
To those who will no longer be with CCP, all the best and we'll pray for you to land on your feet fast.

To CCP: thank you for making the though call. Focus is something I've been hoping for and I'm glad to see that you don't shy away (too much) from making the right decision, no matter how tough. I've felt for a while now that CCP was growing the employee base too quickly.



Anyone else notice how very often the 'I support CCP in this!!!' posters are making their first post ever? CCP Alt damage control again?


I support CCP in this. I don't see why anyone who cares a shred about this game doesn't.

Would you rather we go back to CCP paying more people to develop WoD and DUST than Eve?


You are completely missing the point. The neglect shown to subscribers to your primary cash flow and lack of community interaction has put them in serious trouble. Lets be honest here no one fires 20% of there work force if everything is ok. If they do just because then its greed. I think you are also missing the face that the eve community is a very small and passionate one. There are things from PLEX drives to trivial gifts like a new caracal to a noob. When RL is damaged due to incompitence of others its a sad and frustrating thing. CCP has issues EVE, DUST, have issues therefore we have issues. get it?
Flamewave
Crimson Moon Society
#342 - 2011-10-19 21:07:15 UTC
Magnus Orin wrote:
Flamewave wrote:
Josefius wrote:
Why do they call it "Human Resources"?

Because they clearly are. However, the human resource is being reduced in this case, which is my whole point. By reducing the human resource you're not actually freeing up the resource that directly does work for the company, just the monetary resource.


Are you daft?

You lay people off. As you can see they are laying off people not directly involved with FiS (community staff, and WoD staff).

Use the reduced expenses to balance your budget. CCP needs to sort its **** to maintain profitability (or regain it).

You refocus on your key direction with the resources you have left, put out good **** (Winter Expansion).

If your customers are happy, and subs grow, you hire more staff to iterate on your ****.

SO YES THEY ARE FREEING UP THE RESOURCES THAT MATTER.

None of what you say is explicitly false, however the fact is that CCP is trying to play it off like it will accelerate development in the here and now, not at an indeterminate time in the future, if at all. The question is when, because it certainly won't be right now.

As a sidenote, you're a bit hostile, you know? P It's possible to hold a conversation without questioning the other's intellectual acuity, just an FYI.

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Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#343 - 2011-10-19 21:07:47 UTC
MotherMoon wrote:
some stuff


Holy smokes!

First I see Helicity in here and now you?

What a strange world. When did you decide to unquit?

Just need Liang to pop in and all will back to normal.

Mr Epeen Cool
EVE Stig
Doomheim
#344 - 2011-10-19 21:08:02 UTC
Magnus Orin wrote:


Only a minority of players use the forums. You'd rather CCP allocate resources to the minority of players rather than spend it on actual gameplay. GTFO.


liiiiike I dunno, how major 0.0 players want all the game designed around them and **** the ppl in highsec?

lol be MORE of a hypocrite. I dare you

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DJ Xaphod
Eve Radio Corporation
#345 - 2011-10-19 21:08:37 UTC
Rall Mekin wrote:

DJ, I may have missed something, but I do not believe they specifically said they are laying off EVE online team members. Rather, they said they were laying off members of CCP and reorganizing/refocusing.

Based off their public statement, I take it that they are cutting members company wide (one would assume from the World of Darkness/Dust team primarily) and also doing a lot of reassignments to focus more on the EVE Universe (Dust is part of Eve Online in the long run, its just deployed on a different platform).


If you read the thread you'll see that a lot of EVE online team members are going.

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Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#346 - 2011-10-19 21:09:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Miilla
Since CCP pay for bandwidth..

Perhaps if they remove the background image on these forums (or revert to the old non Javascript heavy forums) they could save money on bandwidth costs.



Hey, what if our client's need repairing and we ALL have to download the FULL client?
RougeOperator
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#347 - 2011-10-19 21:13:08 UTC
RougeOperator wrote:
Eternum Praetorian wrote:


It is the fault of those who decided to make EVE into their cash cow for other projects, and now others will get fired because of their stupid decisions. It has nothing to do with the eve community.


This sums it up.

The idiots blaming the community seem to be the typical neurologically challenged CCP sycophants that seem to materialize every time CCP does something really stupid.

We understand layoffs. But we question the methodology in what and who. And fairly so.


Now someone tell me WHY hilmar still has a job?

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Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#348 - 2011-10-19 21:14:15 UTC
I think we still have a message to send to the MMO Industry as a whole.


STAY THE COURSE.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#349 - 2011-10-19 21:17:45 UTC
Zeomebuch Nova wrote:
Brit Green wrote:
I'm not without sympathy for these folks, but part of their job was to keep the rabble under control. They failed at this. When you don't perform your job, you lose it. That's the way these things work.



I will contract you to keep a white, rich, 15 years old nerdy intact in his way through a 5km long ghetto. This all will happen once it's enough dark, just because i enjoy making cretinous decisions. Your hands are your only tools. Don't blame me if you fail doing your job, which I, as your employer, know pretty well you will.


So, if I'm reading this right, you are saying they hired the wrong people for the job. Either that or they hired people for a job that they knew couldn't be done.

Either way, the only solution to that is to remove the forum.

Is that what you are after?

Mr Epeen Cool
Kyoko Sakoda
Achura-Waschi Exchange
Monyusaiya Industry Trade Group
#350 - 2011-10-19 21:18:18 UTC
Today I'm reminded of why I'm a democratic socialist. My heart goes out to those who've lost their jobs and their families.
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#351 - 2011-10-19 21:19:33 UTC
Hey you 20% that quit CCP.


Can I haz your stuffz?
Riflin' Betty
Perfunctory
#352 - 2011-10-19 21:19:34 UTC
So after firing your entire community team, who will mod your fancy new forums?
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#353 - 2011-10-19 21:20:55 UTC
Riflin' Betty wrote:
So after firing your entire community team, who will mod your fancy new forums?




That shows how much CCP care about the community, YOU the CUSTOMER, and you still want to pay them money?

CCP sent a very clear message, the Community of CUSTOMERS means diddly squat to them. Just their short term financials.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#354 - 2011-10-19 21:21:49 UTC
Riflin' Betty wrote:
So after firing your entire community team, who will mod your fancy new forums?



TBH, I hope it's someone that makes sure people with permabans stay banned.

Mr Epeen Cool
Barakkus
#355 - 2011-10-19 21:22:21 UTC
Mr Epeen wrote:
Zeomebuch Nova wrote:
Brit Green wrote:
I'm not without sympathy for these folks, but part of their job was to keep the rabble under control. They failed at this. When you don't perform your job, you lose it. That's the way these things work.



I will contract you to keep a white, rich, 15 years old nerdy intact in his way through a 5km long ghetto. This all will happen once it's enough dark, just because i enjoy making cretinous decisions. Your hands are your only tools. Don't blame me if you fail doing your job, which I, as your employer, know pretty well you will.


So, if I'm reading this right, you are saying they hired the wrong people for the job. Either that or they hired people for a job that they knew couldn't be done.

Either way, the only solution to that is to remove the forum.

Is that what you are after?

Mr Epeen Cool


No, I think the idea is the retards on this forum are not controllable, even by the hand of god himself.

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Dorian Wylde
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#356 - 2011-10-19 21:22:25 UTC
So you're stretched too thin, and you respond to that by reducing staff?

Yeah, that makes perfect sense.

If you fired people over the incarna/nex/greed debacle that's one thing. But come out and say it. Don't try to paint it in some sort of positive light. And if that is the case, I sincerely hope you fired the right people, not scapegoats.
Flamewave
Crimson Moon Society
#357 - 2011-10-19 21:23:40 UTC
Barakkus wrote:
No, I think the idea is the retards on this forum are not controllable, even by the hand of god himself.

Lol

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Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#358 - 2011-10-19 21:24:14 UTC
Eve is Dying

CCP is Dying
Zeomebuch Nova
Undrinkable Grog Inc.
#359 - 2011-10-19 21:25:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Zeomebuch Nova
Mr Epeen wrote:
Zeomebuch Nova wrote:
Brit Green wrote:
I'm not without sympathy for these folks, but part of their job was to keep the rabble under control. They failed at this. When you don't perform your job, you lose it. That's the way these things work.



I will contract you to keep a white, rich, 15 years old nerdy intact in his way through a 5km long ghetto. This all will happen once it's enough dark, just because i enjoy making cretinous decisions. Your hands are your only tools. Don't blame me if you fail doing your job, which I, as your employer, know pretty well you will.


So, if I'm reading this right, you are saying they hired the wrong people for the job. Either that or they hired people for a job that they knew couldn't be done.

Either way, the only solution to that is to remove the forum.

Is that what you are after?

Mr Epeen Cool


ewww... yes, you nailed it. (?).
Black Dranzer
#360 - 2011-10-19 21:27:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Black Dranzer
Over recent months, my mood has been annoyed.

Now I'm simply concerned.

I suppose the best thing I can say is that at this point we can be certain that something is happening.

Miilla wrote:
Eve is Dying

CCP is Dying

Let's hope not, Miilla.

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