EVE General Discussion

When asked about resigning, Hilmar said...



For me, having an experienced CEO at the helm is FAR better than anyone else, especially one that comes face to face with the exact problems he is facing. He knows how to steer CCP through and come out the other side in one piece.

I agree there too, it would create a lot more issues, internal company problems and economic.

Jester's blog post is a good example of how things work at that level which many people seem to be missing.
http://jestertrek.blogspot.com/2011/10/burn-rate.html

Ooooo becareful CSM people

Non-trivial questions answered with candour and humility .. just feels icky! Keep expecting him to ask for/offer a hug

Oh dear, no more purely null-sec councils .. whatever will the bot monkey's think of next to control the direction Eve takes!

PS: Still waiting for actual details as to how you plan on messing up fixing FW and low-sec .. loads more blogs needed!

HILMAR PLEASE READ -!!!!

Too true, the CSM is all wrong at the moment. The problem is letting any goons in there, especially letting Mittani in as chair, big big mistake. Hilmar, if your removing some of your own people. Then remove the CSM, its not working and hasnt really worked. Now you just got CSM members trying to f**k over other CSM members, corruption and everything else. Just get rid of it, it sort of served its purpose.

Yes listen to the WHOLE community, but you also got to keep true to yourselves and make the decisions too. You cant keep pandering to the bitter vets, eve needs to move on. You have to start listening also ( and im a vet btw) to how new players find the game. These people are eves future, and i think I huge focus should be on that. Its these people you want to get excited about the game, the next generation so to speak. These are the people you want to shout about eve to other new players, not bitter vets, who only say, this is eve dont like it get lost attitude. Thats ALL WRONG. New players will not come to a game full of idiots. They just wont. So listen to the vets, but listen to new players too. The problem with CSM its full of idiot vets, some out to ruin the game (so why are they in there). Big mistake, remove the CSM now, before these idiots ruin the game entirely.

You know what the issues are now, you know what your mistakes are and you know where you want to be, so basically just get on with it!

Hilmar Pétursson: The CSM has been under constant evolution based on what's going on in the current environment, what's going on with CCP and Eve, who's on the Council and all that. The CSM has helped greatly through the years in getting feedback for aspects of the game.

But some of my concerns right now relate to whether the CSM is maybe focused on a particular aspect of the game and I'm starting to get feedback from players that they worry the CSM is too pre-occupied by a certain playstyle. That might mean we may need to change the structure, but definitely the CSM has worked as a feedback tool greatly throughout the years. We will have them over at the end of the year, after everything that's gone on, and we will have a chance to talk about that. We'll just see where we are and take it from there.


That part. I like

Very good interview, very good points. Although CCP should not give up on Incarna completly, it just needs to be incorperated into the sandbox like everything else in eve.

The NeX store and the WoD/Incarna combination is what made Ambulation fail, not the original idea, go back to your original ideas regarding Ambulation before MT and you'll find many usefull and fun things to work with. The work on many of the Incarna graphics has been done and should not be wasted.

It struck me as a pretty candid interview. To what extent the infamous 'summer of rage' impacted upon the financial and cultural realities of attempting to produce both DUST514 and WoD at the same time is harder to judge.

The overall impression is that CCP tried to bite off more than it could chew, and had grown to big and to unwieldy to enable fluid internal communication. I think a telling line is:

"A lot of the mistakes we made over the summer were known quite well within our community groups, but they were not getting through to the people making the decisions due to not being co-located with them".

I think that exemplifies that the community reps were so busy fire fighting they didn't have time to sound the alarm that the building was burning around them. It might even go further than that - Hilmar not actually being told what was going on or how serious it was.

The re focusing on EVE and FiS is a good thing in my view, although I am disappointed that the potential of Incarna won't be realised for many years yet. However, if the price of WiS has to be paid to make the integration of DUST514 and EVE a better experience and EVE becomes a better game overall that may be a price worth paying.

If CCP jettisons the NeX store (how being a more complicated process) then Incarna could still prove to be a crowd drawing success - provided it has within it an actual game to be played rather than just pretty pixels and fancy graphics.

Clearly CCP Hilmar has decided to get back down on the shop floor and that at least is encouraging - just a shame it hadnt happened sooner.

C.

A great and successful man once shared some life wisdom with me, he said:
"Keep doing something for no more than seven years, whether you enjoy it or not."

He meant that after seven years doing the same thing every day you're bound to start losing edge, and that it is then better to move on to new things.

Just my thoughts..

some good points.

and add oficial link to this article soon, we always have to search them, and that's not normal...