EVE General Discussion

The choice is not "Cut 20% of our employees or go out of business." There are most likely dozens of other ways that CCP could reduce costs if they really needed to. Probably the best of which is a slight reduction in upper management pay scales.

You are also confusing the issue of the CCP lay offs with the game play decisions that have been made recently. The two have nothing to do with each other.

In addition, although some of the lay offs pertain to WOD development, a large number of the affected employees work directly (in some cases exclusively) on EVE. And nearly all of the lay offs are of US employees (Not that this is an important point, just correcting the error you made.)

The NeX folks are earning their keep. The staff cuts are due to the lack of income. They have to thin down the teams that aren't directly income-earning.

Go read Ripard's blog.

#painfultruthsofcapitalism

SO you are going to unsub therefore making it more likely that more people get laid off in the future ?

wut ?

Myself I am happy with CCP's focus on space ships, tons of promised features and open communication. I will not be unsubbing.

You know CCP will help these guys finding a new job right? Sure you have to take this with some salt but stil....

We all have freedom to do what we want. It is your choise to unsub.
I personaly will not. I love this game. Nothing so complex and beautiful like EVE is on market, so i stay and play, until i have no fun in it.

You forgot about 1 thing.
The World is in a global economic crysis,
WHY you think it can not affect CCP too? Are they imune ?
CCP is a company, and they can do what ever it takes to prosper.

I fully support my masters from CCP

I assume you will also be taking the keys to your car back to the dealership, returning the clothes you wear back to the store, unsubscribing to you phone and cable, and returning most everything you purchase that needed a plane, train, or semi to haul it somewhere for you to buy it. I mean principals should be applied everywhere and not just to a game.

A company like CCP makes a virtual product and as such has little to no ability to control its costs through inventory reduction, reduced manufacturing, or other avenues. Sure it would be nice for all the CCP senior staff to take a paycut to save 20% of the workforces jobs, but this looks much more like the abandonment of a product then the "do more with less".

If CCP made the decision to abandon development of a platform/game, then why would they not let the people working on it go? Its called a business decision, and when you own a business you get to make those hard decisions.

So kudos for caring, but grow up, the world is a harse place and your "stand" of unsubscribing to a game really is insignificant.

Unsub? Hell I might get another account if they keep their promises this time. They're finally doing what we wanted. Time to reward them (if they deliver), not punish them.

OP,
I am sure that you find fellow WoD supporters from this forum who agree with you. However I wish you could try and understand something...

The lay-offs might actually have something to do with WOD draining CCP's resources too thin for EvE and Dust. Continuing in that road without taking necessary actions would just make the situation worse.

Developing 3 games at same time would be great challenge to much more bigger companies than CCP. Eve started to lose subscriptions because players didn't get bang for their buck. These lay-offs are probably inevitable results of global recession and corporate decisions to commit to that previously mentioned vampire game.

It has taken long time for things to escalate down to their current situation. As far I see it, what Hilmar is doing now - he is doing to fix the bad decisions and save the company.

I am sad so see you go, but if you do - at least do it for right reasons (and yes, could I have you stuff?)

How can any of us sit on high horses about being moral when instead of playing internet spaceships we could've simply donated our money to people dying in droves from dirty water?