EVE General Discussion

And for a moment, what if nothing is said or done concerning avatar gaming?

Will another year pass and those desiring avatar gaming keep their subscription while threatening to unsub? Will there be claims that unless Eve has avatar gaming, it will be doomed? Will other games be brought into the mix as the course of action for CCP to get it together or else there will be a mass exodus? Will this thread continue onward practically repeating itself?

I'm sure there will be claims like that made, but personally I don't put any stock in them. Not for quite a few years, at least.
Eventually, technology will get to the point where WIS is a "why haven't they done it yet?" feature, and then it might start having an effect, but that's a ways off. Until then, WIS is something lots of people want, but it won't hurt the game to not have.

However, I'm not saying it won't benefit the game either. WIS is nigh-guaranteed to bring in extra subscribers, and making existing players happy is almost never bad. It has the ability to be a near-unique selling point, and if done properly could contribute immensely to gameplay and general atmosphere.

So no, I don't think there will be a disaster because of it, but really, after Incarna WIS can only go up. They've got the foothold with CQ; the awkward bit is done. From here they've got a lot of improvements to go after, and not really any way to make it worse.


When do threads like this not?

Will be the same as the last one .
Yelling that the audience "Who wants the door open?"
Then gets a crazy look on his face ,when almost everybody say ,YES!!!!!!!!

This guy pretty much gets it. At least from my stand point.

It's possible and wouldn't surprise me to see such situation happen where they would deny vehemently all the way that any Avatar gameplay was in development or would ever be released to the game (note this is not the case) and at an expansion preview or launch date suddenly announce it as a fully developed feature ready to be deployed.

Look at some of CCP's employees and their practices like the Chief Marketing Officer CMO David Reid (ex NCSoft and Trion Worlds) who is famous for giving this interview about NCSoft's Tabula Rasa stating that "it was an AAA title and was here to stay" just before they announced its closure Anybody watching these people adress communities should stock up on big piles of trust ready to be sucked while the show goes on and sticks to set off all the traps coming from their speech.

Wel, they may be improving their CGI skills...

...but CGI is the opposite of ingame footage, which used to be the way CCP advertised EVE. The cognitive disonance between using human avatars in your advertisements and not have any use to human avatars in yoru game is kind of funny and only grows funnier upon time.

Looks like CCP has got PTSD about vatars. Or maybe just they fired everyone related to avatars, the few remaining have quit the company an all in all they're hoping that hired talent will rescue them from the horrible mess they put themselves in two years ago.

EVE and CCP have been unning on emergency mode since Incarna, and the stakes with the Hallelujah Plan and its herald, the winter expansion, are terribly high.

Neither CCP nor EVE nor the players can afford another bag of hot air like Odyssey. 100 one-pennies of reheated porridge don't make for a 1 pound of hot bacon.

And, personally, they better get their stuff right with marauders, because they're planting a shitstorm with the current disgrace of iteration proposal ("shitstorm" as in "it has been consistently blasted out of the water for 100+ pages of threadnaught and almost 3 weeks without any CCP feedback, so then don't come at us saying we didn't bloody warn you").

Be-cuas - INNOVESHANNN!

...pledged to SC and ED yesterday, by the way, and it felt quite good.

I wouldn't be too sure about the avatar system of SC yet... it maybe very basic right now, but it's only a placeholder, and with the amount of social interactivity/space they have planned, I'm pretty sure we'll see quite an array of cloths and accessories, as soon as the game gets rolling.

That maybe true, but luckily, he's not solely responsible for the artistic style of the game... and personally, I could live with a flight suit like that.