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CCP Games Announces Former EA Executive Sean Decker as Senior Vice President

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Enyeto Perah
#181 - 2013-07-02 17:39:38 UTC
Ace Uoweme wrote:
darmwand wrote:
Ace Uoweme wrote:

PC gaming is on the decline.


Continuously repeating this won't make it any more true, http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/28/pc-gaming-in-still-not-dead-shocker/

Edit: wrong link


I'm not saying it because I like it, I'm saying it backed up with evidence.

When the #1 game publisher says it's on the decline, and offers the financials...yeah, it's on the decline.

You can put lipstick on the pig. You can dress it up to look like a cow, but the numbers show the decline.


Yes, it's on the decline for them because they make just miserable ports for PC, lose contact to their PC-fanbase with just stupid repatitions of the same, and then cry because noone wants to buy a crapy port of Syndicate which is not only a bad port, but even so far of from the original that as a PC gamer you just HAVE to boycott it!

Oh, and now CCP has one of those whiners in their team... I wonder how long it will take until he claims that EVE is dying if CCP doesn't relaunch it as F2P and on Console...

Say NO to CCP-EA.

http://pastebin.com/B7HCtBUE Mittani isn't sorry. He's just sorry that he got caught.
Tyrendian Biohazard
The Bastards
Sedition.
#182 - 2013-07-02 17:40:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Tyrendian Biohazard
Frank's rehabilitation program:

- Spend 1 month high sec ganking (to understand the tears)
- Spend 2 weeks mining rocks (any more than that and he'd gouge out his eyes)
- Spend 2 months in low sec/FW (getting a feel for how ruthless the game can be)
- Spend 3 months in null sec alliance (getting a feel for how ruthless the players can be)
- Must post at least once a day, with one post a week being content filled and not jabbering with the players

He may then present his ideas to the players.

Edit: Renamed requirements program for position.

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Ziphis
4S Corporation
The Initiative.
#183 - 2013-07-02 17:40:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Ziphis
Farewell EVE it was fun while it lasted i guess...watch out indy toons you'll need DLC for t2 mining crystals!

How long before we have to buy caps with RL money, will the new expansions come with a season pass?

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'  - T. Pratchett
Enyeto Perah
#184 - 2013-07-02 17:41:02 UTC
Ryunosuke Kusanagi wrote:
CCP Phantom wrote:
Thorn Galen wrote:
and here I was, really looking forward to another 10 years of EVE Online.
I guess that dream is now in jeopardy.

I wouldn't bet on just only 10 more years ... in fact I am looking forwards to a couple more decades!

That said, please keep your feedback and discussions in this thread polite and reasonable. Personal attacks, insults or other forum rule violations should be avoided, thank you!



EA isn't known to be the most user friendly company in gaming for ... the last 5 years or so(?). So for CCP which has had it's fair share of hiccups in PR (Monoclegate) but has learned from those mistakes, and started to listen to it's players and is one of the more user friendly gaming companies out there, this decision makes little sense. I have nothing against the man himself, however, by association with EA, well... lie down with dogs, wake up with their flees type of scenario. Just saying.

Also, it would probbably be a good idea for "someone" or more ideally, a few someones to put out some dev blogs explaining this decision. Calm fears etc.


I don't think dev blogs will help... some decisions are just bad. Some people are just... bad....

Say NO to CCP-EA.

http://pastebin.com/B7HCtBUE Mittani isn't sorry. He's just sorry that he got caught.
Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#185 - 2013-07-02 17:44:46 UTC
handige harrie wrote:
Guess EVE will have mandatory online soon™,

this does explain the bloated new launcher however


Yeah uh "EVE Online" already has "mandatory online"

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Hessian Arcturus
Doomheim
#186 - 2013-07-02 17:47:59 UTC
Well, that's EVE gone down the sh*tter then. He'll try and introduce a new server. No PvP... And the price of EvE will go up because EA only know how to care about one thing...money...

It's human nature to want to explore. To find your line and go beyond it. The only limit, is the one you set yourself.
Justin Thyme
The Salvage and Reclamation Guild
#187 - 2013-07-02 17:50:25 UTC
There goes the neighborhood.
Game over man.
EA has kill more games and penny picked gamers for too long.

"Hunting rats is like mining for scrap metal... and occasionally striking gold"  I don't shoot people. That would be wrong. I do however shoot Ore Thiev...-- Justin Thyme
Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#188 - 2013-07-02 17:51:20 UTC
Ace Uoweme wrote:
darmwand wrote:
Ace Uoweme wrote:

PC gaming is on the decline.


Continuously repeating this won't make it any more true, http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/28/pc-gaming-in-still-not-dead-shocker/

Edit: wrong link


I'm not saying it because I like it, I'm saying it backed up with evidence.

When the #1 game publisher says it's on the decline, and offers the financials...yeah, it's on the decline.

You can put lipstick on the pig. You can dress it up to look like a cow, but the numbers show the decline.


- #1 game publisher.
- Does not sell it's games on the biggest PC game marketplace (Steam)
- Sells mostly retail-centric massmarket junk aimed at the lowest common denominator
- Ships unfinished games with poor after sales support and constantly kills off online support of old games
- Complains that PC sales are down
- is EA
Tzar Sinak
Mythic Heights
#189 - 2013-07-02 17:54:11 UTC
I use to play Earth and Beyond from Westwood. I loved it. The interaction between player accomplishments in game and the expansions based on it was brilliant. Oh! and the fishbowl raids! Westwood had a winner. Then EA came along and the game was shut down within a year.

Fortunately there was a new space mmo coming out at the time. Hmmm, what was it called? Oh ya, EVE.

EA was voted the worst company several times and the CEO voted the worst serval times. So, is the new guy running away from EA or bringing EA with him?

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Dasola
New Edens Freeports
#190 - 2013-07-02 17:56:56 UTC
So much for EvEs success... You dont hire ex EA decision makers, just look at new simcity to see how bad desions they make...

We are Minmatar, Our ship are made of scraps, but look what our scraps can do...
Enyeto Perah
#191 - 2013-07-02 17:57:45 UTC
Tzar Sinak wrote:
I use to play Earth and Beyond from Westwood. I loved it. The interaction between player accomplishments in game and the expansions based on it was brilliant. Oh! and the fishbowl raids! Westwood had a winner. Then EA came along and the game was shut down within a year.

Fortunately there was a new space mmo coming out at the time. Hmmm, what was it called? Oh ya, EVE.

EA was voted the worst company several times and the CEO voted the worst serval times. So, is the new guy running away from EA or bringing EA with him?


EA is an infection... it corrupts your mind... you can't run away from it, it is inside you...

Say NO to CCP-EA.

http://pastebin.com/B7HCtBUE Mittani isn't sorry. He's just sorry that he got caught.
Ziphis
4S Corporation
The Initiative.
#192 - 2013-07-02 17:58:31 UTC
wait guys what if these new tattoos we all saw the other day was just showing what we are going to have to start paying for....


Okay with that though in my head I'm getting my guns this monument is going down!

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'  - T. Pratchett
Arec Bardwin
#193 - 2013-07-02 18:00:17 UTC
I take it you guys dont like EA much? Lol
flakeys
Doomheim
#194 - 2013-07-02 18:00:34 UTC
So that makes a SOE+EA combination now for dust?



Ow boy ...... Shocked

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#195 - 2013-07-02 18:00:44 UTC
Is CCP going to start development on a space chessboxing game that is integrated into the EVE universe under Decker's guidance

Twitter: @EVEAndski

"It's easy to speak for the silent majority. They rarely object to what you put into their mouths."    - Abrazzar
Ariel Dawn
State War Academy
Caldari State
#196 - 2013-07-02 18:02:16 UTC
Without the knee-jerk reactions, EVE could easily be Free 2 Play + Sub at the same time. Imagine these restrictions on free players:

Reduced SP training rate
Cannot aggress unflagged players (so no free suicide ganking alts)
Restricted skills that can be injected, or limited to level 3/4
Justin Thyme
The Salvage and Reclamation Guild
#197 - 2013-07-02 18:02:50 UTC
Tzar Sinak wrote:
I use to play Earth and Beyond from Westwood. I loved it. The interaction between player accomplishments in game and the expansions based on it was brilliant. Oh! and the fishbowl raids! Westwood had a winner. Then EA came along and the game was shut down within a year.

Fortunately there was a new space mmo coming out at the time. Hmmm, what was it called? Oh ya, EVE.

EA was voted the worst company several times and the CEO voted the worst serval times. So, is the new guy running away from EA or bringing EA with him?



Same thing happened to me. Let's hope the reason this guy left EA was that he didn't like the way they did business.

"Hunting rats is like mining for scrap metal... and occasionally striking gold"  I don't shoot people. That would be wrong. I do however shoot Ore Thiev...-- Justin Thyme
Dexxel Farcry
Taggart Transdimensional
Virtue of Selfishness
#198 - 2013-07-02 18:03:49 UTC  |  Edited by: Dexxel Farcry
Oh holy sheet.....
Nyancat Audeles
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#199 - 2013-07-02 18:05:47 UTC
Ryunosuke Kusanagi wrote:
CCP Phantom wrote:
Thorn Galen wrote:
and here I was, really looking forward to another 10 years of EVE Online.
I guess that dream is now in jeopardy.

I wouldn't bet on just only 10 more years ... in fact I am looking forwards to a couple more decades!

That said, please keep your feedback and discussions in this thread polite and reasonable. Personal attacks, insults or other forum rule violations should be avoided, thank you!



EA isn't known to be the most user friendly company in gaming for ... the last 5 years or so(?). So for CCP which has had it's fair share of hiccups in PR (Monoclegate) but has learned from those mistakes, and started to listen to it's players and is one of the more user friendly gaming companies out there, this decision makes little sense. I have nothing against the man himself, however, by association with EA, well... lie down with dogs, wake up with their flees type of scenario. Just saying.



I agree.

Good bye, EVE. I loved you.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#200 - 2013-07-02 18:08:41 UTC
If only melodrama was as potent a power source as tears. This thread could keep the servers humming for years.

Woo! CSM XI!

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