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

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Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#541 - 2013-07-03 12:28:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Miilla
Well look at what is happening now, the Incarna flames are reigniting, that is not what you want and yes a statement can either help fan the flames or put it out. Rumour and doubt is not what you want as gamers do jump ship at the first sign of panic.

Anybody from the CSM wish to comment ? What is going through the CSM's agenda on this now?
Guttripper
State War Academy
Caldari State
#542 - 2013-07-03 12:30:22 UTC
How are the popular Asian / Eastern games set-up in terms of gaming - free to play with micro transactions or subscriptions? I thought during the last fiasco, CCP was basing many of their decisions on following "market trends"...?
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#543 - 2013-07-03 12:31:01 UTC
Guttripper wrote:
How are the popular Asian / Eastern games set-up in terms of gaming - free to play with micro transactions or subscriptions? I thought during the last fiasco, CCP was basing many of their decisions on following "market trends"...?



CCP tried the asian market, how is that going on? I heard nothing of it now, no dramatic change in numbers from it.

I think it flopped.
Miner Hottie
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#544 - 2013-07-03 12:40:51 UTC
Welcome Sean Decker to CCP and the Eve Online world. If you read this thread you will no doubt notice some very strong opinions about your employment history. Take note of this. The player base of Eve is passionate, opinionated and despite our in game efforts to make ourselves look like knuckle dragging reprobates with low sloping foreheads, we are actually generally at the higher end of the gamer skill, intelligence, experience and age. Many of us have long memories of games long past. If you do not take note of the history of Eve Online, if you repeat the mistakes of the past, then watch us do what we the player base did before.

Consider this a welcome, not warm, not cold, but a wake up call to the world you have stepped into.

Best of luck, I think you will need it.

It's all about how hot my mining lasers get.
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#545 - 2013-07-03 12:41:48 UTC
Miner Hottie wrote:
Welcome Sean Decker to CCP and the Eve Online world. If you read this thread you will no doubt notice some very strong opinions about your employment history. Take note of this. The player base of Eve is passionate, opinionated and despite our in game efforts to make ourselves look like knuckle dragging reprobates with low sloping foreheads, we are actually generally at the higher end of the gamer skill, intelligence, experience and age. Many of us have long memories of games long past. If you do not take note of the history of Eve Online, if you repeat the mistakes of the past, then watch us do what we the player base did before.

Consider this a welcome, not warm, not cold, but a wake up call to the world you have stepped into.

Best of luck, I think you will need it.



I would like to be in the meeting with the charts of the subscribers shown to him during Incarna but they probably changed red to green and changed the axis scales and orientation to make it sucky kiss bottom good :)
Bischopt
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#546 - 2013-07-03 12:43:45 UTC
Well this could be bad.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#547 - 2013-07-03 12:44:13 UTC
Can some one tell me what his job actually involves?

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Garviel Tarrant
Beyond Divinity Inc
Shadow Cartel
#548 - 2013-07-03 12:45:23 UTC
Miilla wrote:
Miner Hottie wrote:
Welcome Sean Decker to CCP and the Eve Online world. If you read this thread you will no doubt notice some very strong opinions about your employment history. Take note of this. The player base of Eve is passionate, opinionated and despite our in game efforts to make ourselves look like knuckle dragging reprobates with low sloping foreheads, we are actually generally at the higher end of the gamer skill, intelligence, experience and age. Many of us have long memories of games long past. If you do not take note of the history of Eve Online, if you repeat the mistakes of the past, then watch us do what we the player base did before.

Consider this a welcome, not warm, not cold, but a wake up call to the world you have stepped into.

Best of luck, I think you will need it.



I would like to be in the meeting with the charts of the subscribers shown to him during Incarna but they probably changed red to green and changed the axis scales and orientation to make it sucky kiss bottom good :)


I'm pretty sure the asian market has like 150k players..

BYDI recruitment closed-ish

Enyeto Perah
#549 - 2013-07-03 12:50:01 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Can some one tell me what his job actually involves?


CCP EA's job

Quote:

Sean is to be the head of product development across all of CCP's games, not just the free-to-play titles, but I wouldn't worry about EVE going free to play any time soon.


Quote:

One of Sean's responsibilities as VP of product development will be to figure out what developers should work on in the next cycle based on community feedback.


CCP EA's handling of community feedback can be seen in the great Command & Conquer 4 - Tiberian Twilight, which he was responsible for, and which EVERY C&C player hated, because it abandoned EVERYTHING that was C&C.

I wonder how long it will take until the same happens to EVE... I give it about 2 years, then it will be infected with the EA cancer...

Say NO to CCP-EA.

http://pastebin.com/B7HCtBUE Mittani isn't sorry. He's just sorry that he got caught.
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#550 - 2013-07-03 12:50:17 UTC
RomeStar wrote:
Malcanis wrote:
"Flushed with pride"



I would hope you CSM members are vocal about this hire and relay the players concerns that he will turn EVE into a microtranscation themepark. If he does intorduce microtransactions have fun playing by yourself.


Believe me, CCP are well aware that P2W MTs are a bad, bad, bad idea.

And we will remind them.

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#551 - 2013-07-03 12:51:27 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Can some one tell me what his job actually involves?


Basically he's doing what was Hilmar's job.

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Bloodpetal
Tir Capital Management Group
#552 - 2013-07-03 12:52:17 UTC
He's in the shark pit now, honestly.

He's not used to "consumers" that shoot back.

Where I am.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#553 - 2013-07-03 12:52:29 UTC
Enyeto Perah wrote:
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Can some one tell me what his job actually involves?


CCP EA's job

Quote:

Sean is to be the head of product development across all of CCP's games, not just the free-to-play titles, but I wouldn't worry about EVE going free to play any time soon.


[quote]
One of Sean's responsibilities as VP of product development will be to figure out what developers should work on in the next cycle based on community feedback.




So nothing then

Paid a fortune to sit on his thumbs



Great

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#554 - 2013-07-03 12:53:13 UTC
Bloodpetal wrote:
He's in the shark pit now, honestly.

He's not used to "consumers" that shoot back.



Shooting would be too quick for his kind

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#555 - 2013-07-03 12:53:59 UTC
Malcanis wrote:
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Can some one tell me what his job actually involves?


Basically he's doing what was Hilmar's job.



I don't know what that was either, sorry

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Enyeto Perah
#556 - 2013-07-03 12:56:00 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Bloodpetal wrote:
He's in the shark pit now, honestly.

He's not used to "consumers" that shoot back.



Shooting would be too quick for his kind


I wonder if "Get rid of CCP EA" as a CSM goal would give you extra votes...

Say NO to CCP-EA.

http://pastebin.com/B7HCtBUE Mittani isn't sorry. He's just sorry that he got caught.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#557 - 2013-07-03 12:56:36 UTC
Enyeto Perah wrote:
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Bloodpetal wrote:
He's in the shark pit now, honestly.

He's not used to "consumers" that shoot back.



Shooting would be too quick for his kind


I wonder if "Get rid of CCP EA" as a CSM goal would give you extra votes...


I was thinking dissolve pointless roles such as SVP tbh

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Grath Telkin
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
#558 - 2013-07-03 12:59:06 UTC
Malcanis wrote:
RomeStar wrote:
Malcanis wrote:
"Flushed with pride"



I would hope you CSM members are vocal about this hire and relay the players concerns that he will turn EVE into a microtranscation themepark. If he does intorduce microtransactions have fun playing by yourself.


Believe me, CCP are well aware that P2W MTs are a bad, bad, bad idea.

And we will remind them.


This guy and guys that worked for him ruined a lot of games that a lot of people love, and didn't listen to the players while they cried about him doing it.

Whats to make us think that he wont do the same thing here?


Like seriously, if they had gone and hired Hitler people would generally be less pissed, he's the AIDS of the gaming world, and we hate him already, before he started fumbling around in our game.


There is literally nothing this guy or CCP can say to sell this guy as not a gigantic sack of ****, this is one of the worst things they could have done.

Malcanis - Without drone assign, the slowcat doctrine will wither and die.
Ace Uoweme
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#559 - 2013-07-03 13:00:47 UTC
Enyeto Perah wrote:
I wonder how long it will take until the same happens to EVE... I give it about 2 years, then it will be infected with the EA cancer...


You'll Never Leave Though

_"In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." _ ~George Orwell
Enyeto Perah
#560 - 2013-07-03 13:01:21 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Enyeto Perah wrote:
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Bloodpetal wrote:
He's in the shark pit now, honestly.

He's not used to "consumers" that shoot back.



Shooting would be too quick for his kind


I wonder if "Get rid of CCP EA" as a CSM goal would give you extra votes...


I was thinking dissolve pointless roles such as SVP tbh


CCP is managing themselves to death... no new programmers, just some brainless numberjunkies WHO DON'T KNOW **** ABOUT GAMING AND RUINED C&C!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EvilEvilEvilEvilEvilEvilEvilEvilEvilEvilEvil

Say NO to CCP-EA.

http://pastebin.com/B7HCtBUE Mittani isn't sorry. He's just sorry that he got caught.