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CCP Focuses on EVE Universe - A CCP Announcement

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Kengutsi Akira
Doomheim
#361 - 2011-10-19 21:30:04 UTC
Riflin' Betty wrote:
So after firing your entire community team, who will mod your fancy new forums?



funny thing there, I posted the names of the ppl that got canned but I cut the real names out for fear of getting banned like they seem to do to other ppl that use real names of CCP ppl but it might not matter anymore now that there are no mods

"Is it fair that CCP can get away with..." :: checks ownership on the box ::

Yes
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#362 - 2011-10-19 21:31:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Miilla
Where is this list?

Let's get SLASHDOT Coverage... get the message across tho the MMO industry, WE DONT WANT THIS CRAP.
Smertrios
House of Jaga
#363 - 2011-10-19 21:31:50 UTC
Wow... Just wow.

I understand the downsizing and refocusing. Thats good.

But the people let go! content and community down to skeleton teams! some of the most loyal and dedicated devs let go! most of the devs responsible for the direction and failures of the last few years remain!

WTF are the people in charge doing!

Seriously pull your heads out of your own and each others asses! You wont improve the game by getting rid of the people that care and connect with the community!! hell thats been what caused all the issues recently and now you get rid of the people who keep CCP and us close.

Total fail! It's honestly like you are trying to fail as a company and have been doing a pretty damn good job of it recently.

CCP was heading in the right direction then does a u-turn and drives off a cliff.

I am seeing pages and pages of shock from the community across many many websites and forums and disbelief at the people let go. That will turn to anger soon and the **** storm of the last few months will feel like a tickle.

Honestly WTF!

Sad sad day, many of my corp are in tears at this news. Good job again CCP management! Idiots!
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#364 - 2011-10-19 21:32:36 UTC
Barakkus wrote:


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


Can you imagine if they actually got someone in here that had the balls to enforce the rules?

I'd have to roll a new kinder, gentler me.

What a loss for the community.

Mr Epeen Sad
Iron Mayden
Casa da Mae Joana
#365 - 2011-10-19 21:32:54 UTC
How does reducing staff streamlines the development process?

Sounds like my current job, reduce staff... double work?

Roll
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#366 - 2011-10-19 21:33:18 UTC
Eve has a high learning curve, even for CCP :)
Barakkus
#367 - 2011-10-19 21:35:34 UTC
Mr Epeen wrote:
Barakkus wrote:


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


Can you imagine if they actually got someone in here that had the balls to enforce the rules?

I'd have to roll a new kinder, gentler me.

What a loss for the community.

Mr Epeen Sad


Actually, they could hire me to regulate these idiots...I did a couple years as a SOE forum moderator for EQ2 lol.

I have a short list of immediate perma-bans already lined up Lol

I'm not sure I'd want to go back to doing that again though...

http://youtu.be/yytbDZrw1jc
Klandi
Consortium of stella Technologies
#368 - 2011-10-19 21:35:43 UTC
Wow... I am stunned

Knowing about redundancy (more times than I care to count) I am aware of the mental state of those affected. You will pull through this and you must look for the positive.

Things like this mean that the blame game is played out and someone in a position of authority takes it for getting it wrong. Whether it was internal error or a mixture of external and internal errors we will never know, but it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
With the focus restored and the track firmly on the core product - I hope that we will see marked improvement of vision and communication.

I am aware of my own ignorance and have checked my emotional quotient - thanks for asking
Rada Ionesco
Club a Seal
#369 - 2011-10-19 21:35:59 UTC
Dorian Wylde wrote:
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.


I agree with exactly everything that was said above.

In doing so, we have come to the conclusion that we are attempting too many things for a company our size
CCP Manifest

I do not agree that the next (above) statement makes any sense however when paired with the decision to fire staff. But what ever, it's your company, make as little sense as you want to.

I know one other thing for certain, if they tank this World of Darkness MMO, the only thing this company has been working on for the last year or two that actually looks like it will be somehting I would spend more money on (considering I have not cancelled my eve accounts yet, but soon don't worry), I would most likely never give them or White Wolf any money again. So keep that in mind CCP, some people here truly do vote with their dollar.
Kengutsi Akira
Doomheim
#370 - 2011-10-19 21:37:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Kengutsi Akira
Miilla wrote:
Where is this list?

Let's get SLASHDOT Coverage... get the message across tho the MMO industry, WE DONT WANT THIS CRAP.


page 17 post 335 I think

Its cool, theyll just hire replacements from Goonsquad. theyll fix it

"Is it fair that CCP can get away with..." :: checks ownership on the box ::

Yes
Mashie Saldana
V0LTA
WE FORM V0LTA
#371 - 2011-10-19 21:37:22 UTC
CCP can't even reduce the staff without failing on an epic scale.

How to win EVE
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#372 - 2011-10-19 21:38:10 UTC
CCP care so much about the Customers (community) they lay off their customer interface team :)

That is a very clear message right there.

Don't you get it?
Kengutsi Akira
Doomheim
#373 - 2011-10-19 21:41:15 UTC
Miilla wrote:
CCP care so much about the Customers (community) they lay off their customer interface team :)

That is a very clear message right there.

Don't you get it?


and they care so much about refocussing to the game they get rid of content designers

I think I get the message and it sounds like "stay the course"

"Is it fair that CCP can get away with..." :: checks ownership on the box ::

Yes
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#374 - 2011-10-19 21:42:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Miilla
So WE the customers STAY THE COURSE too.


Keep the pressure on.




Don't you all get it, the ship spinning is just Bread and Circuses to keep you actively paying to keep Dust coming and that will be more Bread and Circuses as both Eve and Dust will fund WoD.

Stop falling for the Bread and Circuses.


Imagine what another 3 months cancellations and non paying will do.

Watch for more weekend PLEX rip off offers...
Skunk Gracklaw
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#375 - 2011-10-19 21:44:00 UTC
Kengutsi Akira wrote:
Its cool, theyll just hire replacements from Goonsquad. theyll fix it

Who is Goonsquad?
Angeliq
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#376 - 2011-10-19 21:44:23 UTC
I don't care about those 20% soon to be ex-CCP employees. I pay CCP to play EVE Online, not WoD or Dust514 and I expect CCP to use my money in order to develop and improve EVE Online. It's not my fault those ppl are being fired, CCP went money hungry and got involved in other projects thinking they could use EVE money in order to develop more milking cows. Now don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with those ppl, I don't hate them or anything, I just DON'T CARE about them, I never wanted any of them in the first place, CCP should feel sorry for them, not me. Yes, those 20% might have no fault, but I just (yes, you guessed) don't care :)

It's actually good to see CCP finally coming back to EVE Online tho I don't really believe anything CCP says, cos you know... the truth is out there... behind all this smoke and PR stunts that surrounds the forums.

wow much space very ship such pvp many pew
Kengutsi Akira
Doomheim
#377 - 2011-10-19 21:48:18 UTC
Skunk Gracklaw wrote:
Kengutsi Akira wrote:
Its cool, theyll just hire replacements from Goonsquad. theyll fix it

Who is Goonsquad?


te name of your corp from another game lol

"Is it fair that CCP can get away with..." :: checks ownership on the box ::

Yes
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#378 - 2011-10-19 21:50:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Miilla
Maybe the 20% fired can go work for Perpetuum or Guild Wars 2 or SWTOR :)

Because that is where WE are all going :)
Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#379 - 2011-10-19 21:50:56 UTC
We are seeing some of EVE's community names going, but i dare to ask... does anyone who follows WoD and/or DUST development care to comment on the current state of the names over there that are going away as well?

The world is a community of idiots doing a series of things until it explodes and we all die.
Tairon Usaro
G-Fleet Alpha
#380 - 2011-10-19 21:52:27 UTC
Quote:

However, over the past two months, our subscribers have gone down from their peak this summer. We attribute this to our own mistakes and poor communications with our players. We are correcting that now.


you guys, are aware, that we monitor the "concurrent users" statistics ?!?
The statement above is not consistent with the existing data ! Nor is the analysis complete.
Something went wrong with EVE, but not for the last 2 month, but for at least the last 9 Month. The concurrent user peak dates 23rd of January 2011. Form there on, anybody sees the clear and steady trend downwards. A peak in summer is a marketing myth !
There is a clear trend line from January on and its pointing downwards.

OK, this is "just" concurrent users data, but the impact on the subscribers number should be even more dramatic, since most multi account players do not log in all their accounts concurrently, but cancel them concurrently, when they loose interrest in the game.

Therefore good to read, that CCP acknowledges the problem, but finally, only a good expansion patch can break the trend