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

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Easy Tiger
Doomheim
#341 - 2013-07-02 21:45:22 UTC
This news is about as welcome as a kick in the sacks

EA are an extremely predatory company and have nothing good to teach CCP. Any obvious EA-influenced scumbaggery introduced to the game will be rejected by the playerbase I promise you
Six Six Six
Doomheim
#342 - 2013-07-02 21:52:42 UTC
Grimpak wrote:
Lady Zarrina wrote:
New scariest moment in Eve.

the fact that there's now an EA VP in CCP's board or that we have someone as Ace Uoweme in the game?




I see your point.
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#343 - 2013-07-02 21:53:27 UTC
PLEX prices crash in 3...2....1...
Riyal
invidious Squid
#344 - 2013-07-02 21:57:06 UTC
Aww crap.

In hindsight my post should have had more psssshhhh
Elizabeth Aideron
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#345 - 2013-07-02 21:59:31 UTC
Kult Altol wrote:
How long before this threadnought is deleted?


why would it be?
Guttripper
State War Academy
Caldari State
#346 - 2013-07-02 22:00:25 UTC
Just speculating...

Recent complaints about the jump gate animation causing physical issues and CCP being lax? A small fee and it can be personally removed from one account.

Recent outcries about the scan animation playing upon entering each entrance into a system and many times the findings blocking belts, gates, and stations? A small fee and it can be personally removed from one account.

Exploration being an unique "job" and now a free-for-all for everyone with relative ease? A small fee and it can be personally created harder for one account.

While I have not had the personal experience of recent EA games, I have heard the horror stories and hope it will not harm Eve.
Endeavour Starfleet
#347 - 2013-07-02 22:00:39 UTC
I am sorry CCP but I can't agree with this decision.

The issue is the work culture at EA in my opinion is at it's core about making the most money as fast as possible despite the effect is has on gamers.

How can CCP even remotely benefit from this mindset? The WHOLE idea of EVE online is that sometimes development is not about getting more customers but keeping your existing ones happy and playing.

Is this about Dust? I highly doubt someone from EA is even remotely qualified to be in charge of making that game relevant.
Zacoros Tandar
Doomheim
#348 - 2013-07-02 22:02:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Zacoros Tandar
I was just really starting to get into EvE, and now this! It's gonna become a micro (and macro) transaction nightmare isn't it! I hate EA, and I cannot stand cash shops in sub games, and when you watch that youtube video of this guy the way he talks about the players is so detached and ... just awful it's all money money money.

Also he's being given so much power! taking over something that was being done by the CEO, that's crazy!

"I see the world as a micro-transaction" - Sean Decker, CCP Games - Senior Vice President of Product Development.
Bloodpetal
Tir Capital Management Group
#349 - 2013-07-02 22:02:46 UTC
Most boring game developer ever....


Cry

Where I am.
KnowUsByTheDead
Sunlight...Through The Blight.
#350 - 2013-07-02 22:02:52 UTC
Elizabeth Aideron wrote:
Kult Altol wrote:
How long before this threadnought is deleted?


why would it be?


It shouldn't be. I will be damned that I have invested years into this game to see an EA crony turn it into a theme park. And I have only played a couple years. Think of how the 7, 8, 9 year vets feel. This needs to be addressed.

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the comedian is the only thing that makes sense.
Liam Inkuras
Furnace
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
#351 - 2013-07-02 22:03:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Liam Inkuras
Soon you'll be able to rent pre-trained booster alts for only 15$ a month!

Let's name him CCP Pickpocket

I wear my goggles at night.

Any spelling/grammatical errors come complimentary with my typing on a phone
Dominous Nolen
The Graduates
The Initiative.
#352 - 2013-07-02 22:03:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Dominous Nolen
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/29/interview-ea-sean-decker-play4free-games_n_2211813.html

To Quote the Article.... "I see the world as a micro-transaction,"

Unless there has been a major about face in his attitude we might be in trouble here.

Im really holding my tounge here, I have a huge hate for EA given their past issues. I just really don't want misguided choices to ruin an experience that I have come to value and have put my hard earned money into.

@dominousnolen

"Fly dangerously, Fly safe, Fly whatever, just keep Flying." - Lee Blackwood
Easy Tiger
Doomheim
#353 - 2013-07-02 22:09:37 UTC
Dominous Nolen wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/29/interview-ea-sean-decker-play4free-games_n_2211813.html

To Quote the Article.... "I see the world as a micro-transaction,"

Unless there has been a major about face in his attitude we might be in trouble here.

Im really holding my tounge here, I have a huge hate for EA given their past issues. I just really don't want misguided choices to ruin an experience that I have come to value and have put my hard earned money into.


abandon all hope
Deacon Abox
Black Eagle5
#354 - 2013-07-02 22:13:57 UTC
In his youtube interview, the one linked in the OP, he says how people pay is up to the consumers. Hopefully that was not just bullshit spewed for public consumption. Because the consumers he needs to retain in this game will definitely leave and destroy the game and the company if he makes EVE f2p.

Maybe freed of the shackles of a title such as VP for P4F or F2P he will not be so wedded to promoting those payment modalities.

Hey I'm trying now to find a bright side.Straight Of course doing so as I prepare to let fly forum and in-game wrath, and also eye my September (whether to) resub dates.Blink

CCP, there are off buttons for ship explosions, missile effects, turret effects, etc. "Immersion" does not seem to be harmed by those. So, [u]please[/u] give us a persisting off button for the jump gate and autoscan visuals.

Six Six Six
Doomheim
#355 - 2013-07-02 22:14:29 UTC
Frostys Virpio wrote:
It's funny that after the mintchip crazyness, people on GD still think they have a say in who CCP hire. It's like people think they are shareholder or something in here.




People do have an interest in who CCP hire (in prominent positions) as that can effect how the game will develop.

Customers always have a say (albeit usually a very small one if individually) by simply just stopping the service. Customers are not able to tell CCP who to hire, but they can make their objections known.
Sir Spottington
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#356 - 2013-07-02 22:20:16 UTC
only thing that worries me about him is Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight. A truely awful game in every way

why'd the old guy go (dont know his name) and why?
Adunh Slavy
#357 - 2013-07-02 22:26:29 UTC
Dust is likely the place where the MT virus will emerge, and would not doubt to see it in WoD, since it would be completly new and its economy not as developed.

Hopefully CCP has not forgoten lessons of the past, although some aspects of the CE are troubling.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.  - William Pitt
Vudra Ablon
Doomheim
#358 - 2013-07-02 22:32:10 UTC
Seriously- are we going to repeat the debacle of a Cash shop in Eve down the road? Eve gamer's are the elite of the MMO world. Is this going to be a repeat of 2011? Seriously...
darmwand
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#359 - 2013-07-02 22:34:20 UTC
Miilla wrote:
PLEX prices crash in 3...2....1...


Wouldn't this move (hiring the EA guy) lead to higher PLEX prices because more players are going to spend their ISK on PLEXes rather than paying subs?

I know that I for one don't feel compelled to inject any money right now and may start PLEXing once my subs run out...

"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."
Siresa Talesi
Doomheim
#360 - 2013-07-02 22:35:15 UTC
Turelus wrote:
Official post/statement from CCP.

http://www.ccpgames.com/en/public-relations/press-releases/article/75435/industry-veteran-sean-decker-joins-ccp-as-senior-vice-president-product-development/

Added it to the main post as well.



I think it's telling of my subconscious expectations that as I read this line from the article: "In that role, Decker ran numerous studios around the world that released games played by tens of millions of registered users.", my mind automatically read, "In that role, Decker ran numerous studios into the ground..."


Seriously, I had to go back over it twice to be sure that wasn't what it said!