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Sugar coat whatever you like CCP; those smoothed phrases, platitudes and promises - your tone is an irrelevance, your words meaningless.

What you do.

Not what you say.

C.

Really? How much Brennivín had you guys sucked down by this point?

Vapid platitudes aside, what struck me upon first reading this is how much time you spent complaining about the NeX pricing, and how little you talked about the distribution of effort between flying in space (FiS) and walking in stations (WiS). NeX exists to make CCP money. They are going to find a sweet spot eventually. The issue is how much of CCPs resources are being focused on that goal. There is a point of diminishing returns at which people will just stop playing, regardless of how good their characters look, because they are bored. I wish you had addressed this rather than bickering over pricing strategies.

I thank you guys for getting a firm commitment from CCP regarding "Golden Ammo". Good job on that.

Last but not least. Many of the issues surrounding the release of Incarna were chalked up to "a failure of communication". Don't you think that taking 3 months to publish 8 pages of text is just another in a long string failures? Why did it take so long to put this vanilla document in front of the players?






(Crossposted from GD thread)

this happened

It's old news, we await to see if CCP rebuilds trust with the community but this simple statement, had it been made on day one, would have stopped all the drama in its tracks:

So it takes two months for these meeting notes which basically do nothing but add more fluff being thrown at the player base..

I particulary enjoyed "Incarna was a success from a technical standpoint"......

Actions speak louder then words CCP. The game is broken, sov is broken, FW is broken, PI is broken. Attempting to release half finished expansions to divert attention away from any percieved criticism or flaws in the past expasions and attempted balances is just stupid. Just listen to the community, it shouldnt take sabre rattling, ALT-F4'ing and account cancelling, and Forum Rage tear producing threadnaughts to attempt to reason with the devs.

I was really looking forward to these Meeting Minutes but in the end it just seems to be another rehash and CCP's attempt at glossing things over with "yeah we F***** up, but we promise..pinky promise we will do better next time". Read between the lines people, more PR fluff, less Real life stuff.

So, after weeks, now months of EvE players burning up the forumns demanding the minutes we get this ersatz pile of uber redacted doublspeak. I appreciate the work that the CSM has done and I am disapointed that CCP with its disconnected management didn't have the sufficient manhood to display the true "tone" of the meeting or the integrity to print their points. opinions, and words.

Frankly, only cowards/ liars/ fools hide behind legal-corporate double speak. I am very disapointed. Creativity and good management cannot exist in an environment that the CCP management is creating. This does not bode well for EvE Online or its players.

Do me a favor though. Next time you redact something into nothingness at least leave the blacked out portions that one normally sees in printed documents from totalitarian regimes. It would add a little excitement and interest to what is about as exciting as a stale fart.

so business as usual then, the customer base clamours for the structure of eve to be fixed, CCP ignore them & stock up the NEX store waiting for the next idiot to buy so they can justify the "awesome" ™ amount of time and resources expended on giving us a dingy basement with dodgy lighting. Not a change for some people admittedly but at least it's not their mums' basement .

Unfortunately Eve is the only game in town when it comes to arseing around in MMO spaceships, so they have us by the balls

Then you're doing it wrong :)

I wrote a quick blog about the events of today to try and put everything in one place: Minutes & Meetings

The hate is not personal. People complain on the Forums because EVE now takes ages to load what is essentially a useless CQ, crashes repeatedly when entering or leaving Dock, closes the Cargohold every time you Gate or Dock/Undock, offlines modules at random intervals and is generally much less stable than it used to be.

There is no evidence of any kind of QA prior to the release of a patch.

Instead of fixing these issues before releasing the patches, or even addressing them promptly after release, developers are spending time developing WIS and NEX, which even if any Players actually wanted them are not in any way more urgent than getting the actual game working properly.

EVE is a Space Game. Walking around in the Station is all very impressive, but not at the expense of the space travel which is the purpose of the game.