EVE General Discussion

it would be more prudent to ask Who isnt

Thats the fallacy of it. The cancers aren't being removed, just the people who gave a damn.

The point of this thread was to make customers feel bad and responsible for those getting fired. This way, the customers would have to think twice before expressing their disappointments by canceling their Subs.
Basically the easiest way: Blame the others for your own faults, have a clean conscience. Keep dreaming of your greatness.

Im not going to SWTOR
thats just talking WoW

If CCP really wants to focus on EVE and actually do something right to make up for everything they have been doing wrong it's rather simple. Stop making players play the way you want!

First about 0.0, it's time to clean up the mess you've done with the in the matter of havens and sanctums. As CCP clearly saw, it does not promote wars for good places, it only makes space bellow 0.5 worthless which is the great majority of 0.0

Second, don't go ahead with the plans for the new interaction. Handing control of the customs office to the players is only going to ever do one thing, put them in control of large alliances giving more money to those who already have a lot and less to those who don't. it will also make PI in high sec worse.

Third about PI as well. Stop the depletion on planets and effectivily imput a restriction to were players can suck resources from so they don't do on top of eachother. it's about time that PI is actually worth a thing like it was in the beggining.

Fourth, Don't even dream about going foward with the plans for building T2 stuff only in 0.0 and so on. With this you're only getting people to give up, not moving them to 0.0, in fact we pay this game to have fun and if a player doesn't wants to go to 0.0, CCP has no right to tell them to.

That is a good begging for CCP to make amends and start focusing on what's important. CCP should not promote only 0.0 and PVP, CCP should promote a game with various aspects and each and everyone of them should be as profitable and as fun as the rest of them, not make people just do what you want which is lose ships and ISK in hopes people will be buying more plexs to make you more money. It's only CCPs delusion that makes them think like that, it never happened and it never will. So stop this trend or you'll just keep losing players like you have.

My profound sympathies go out to those who will lose their jobs and my thoughts are with the families of those who will be made redundant. I lost my job as a result of the UK recession and unemployment at this time will be a hard road to tread for all concerned.

The company should be applauded for coming back from the brink, everything could have been lost but now there is genuine hope for the future. Eve can be great again, CCP can be a strong company again, the partnerships between the players and the business can be rebuilt. Future sucess for the company and the playerbase will be doubly sweet in view of how close things came to disaster.

BUT, all we (the players) would have lost is a computer game. The facts are now apparent that real people will lose their jobs and their livelihoods. I sincerly hope the lessons have been learnt because they have come at some considerable cost.

you don't get replaced by a very small shell script anymore


You get replaced by a very small chinaman... cheaper than a script. (Since behind that small shell script is an overweight underskilled psuedo-engineer developer that eats too many bananas).

Personally I think it very odd for a company that previoulsy have shown that their management suck balls in communicating with their players, to fire off virtually their entire community team.....The same departement i might add, that also includes CSM.

Zymurgist and Fallout have allready posted their farewells. In the current climate, I certainly dont think this is the brightest move in the world.

We were ganked

Ironic really that that web page came up :)

Several months ago, even before the Incarna debacle, I trotted out one of the oldest known precepts of successful software project management.

"Do not encourage failure."

If a programmer is assigned a particular black box to program, and fails, you have two options.

Option 1, Assign something simpler and give him/her another chance, but only one.

Option 2, if you are on a budget, get rid of that programmer.

Same goes for project managers. If they can't do the job, you can't afford them.

Based on recent issues, I see Eve as a very large bucket of spaghetti code, loosely held together by emergency repairs.

Competent management would never have let it happen in the first place.

Sure, I'm sorry that some people have lost their jobs, but it appears to me that there are probably quite a few who should have lost their jobs a long time ago.

For the programmers, and project managers, if there were any, if you can't even meet CCP's low standards, you should really consider another line of work.

I like this game. It's the only one I play, and I will continue to play it as long as I can stand to. But the parts of it that I play haven't improved a bit in two years. During that time I've paid enough in monthly fees to buy a car.

What I really wish? No changes at all, except fixes, for at least a year. A year isn't long enough to fix all the things that are screwed up already, but it might get CCP back to a good starting point for other necessary fixes.