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Jukebox Petition - Bring it back!

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DarkestHeart
ItsMeCorp
#561 - 2013-11-22 13:32:26 UTC
A bump, a lovely, shameless and yet slightly endearing bump.
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#562 - 2013-11-22 21:23:15 UTC
A big bump, like this boil on my left upper arm where the jukebox used to be.

FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."

Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
Dabasir
Ho 229
#563 - 2013-11-23 12:57:56 UTC
/Signed
BugraT WarheaD
#564 - 2013-11-23 12:59:21 UTC
/signed.

Low sec music are the worst.
Gawain Edmond
Khanid Bureau of Industry
#565 - 2013-11-23 13:49:02 UTC
29 pages for something that makes noise in a game with no sound!! Sorry ccp sound department but my sound in eve got turned off in 2006, it got turned on a few years ago when you added some cool new tracks, but i listened to them all once then it went off again.
David Kir
Hotbirds
#566 - 2013-11-23 17:52:18 UTC
+1

Friends are like cows: if you eat them, they die.
Ke'll
Inter-Regional Material Acquisition
#567 - 2013-11-29 11:10:23 UTC
/sighed and signed
Cygnet Lythanea
World Welfare Works Association
#568 - 2013-11-29 19:39:13 UTC
I figure this will roll on like the POS overhaul thread did for years until they finally give even a little
Aiden Zide
DerpCore Mining LLC
#569 - 2013-11-30 23:19:56 UTC
Just started playing EvE again after a long break. Big smile

So much has changed and so much has been removed

Jukebox was the first things i tried to find when i logged on, but it was gone. Sad

Bring it back please
Psychoactive Stimulant
#570 - 2013-12-01 01:22:56 UTC
Bump
Xenial Jesse Taalo
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#571 - 2013-12-01 03:22:51 UTC
+1

I have tried to accept the missing jukebox and pre-determined music, but no it's not good.

Simply because we barely hear any music now. I don't do the 32 different activities Eve requires for me to hear half the playlist.
I make ISK, and I PvP.
As a result, I hear almost nothing from Eve's playlist.

Eve's music was a strong part of the game. Now the vast majority of it is being hidden away from the vast majority of players because they don't set off enough "playlist triggers".
Solumon Caar
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#572 - 2013-12-01 04:56:18 UTC
Signed. Removing this is contrary to everything CCP says about Eve player freedom.

Restrictive and forced.

Not the Eve way.
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#573 - 2013-12-01 05:39:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Reaver Glitterstim
DarkestHeart wrote:
Hi guys,

I've played the game for something like 8 years, before the music was revamped to the style it was before the JB was taken away. Apart from being slightly biased and actually enjoying the music in EvE when in the mood, which was quite often, there are some valid points I want to make and why it should be brought back.
New Music Style
I dont like this. I dont like how the music changes depending on my location, nor how many people have been killed in that system. It is clever I cannot deny, but the music I hear does not suit the mood I am in, nor does it, in my opinion sound that good. I feel that, so far, this noise falls under sound-effects more than music. I've turned it off for now, as I did in the test server clients since the JB was removed.
Removal of access
I'm pro choice, in EvE. I want, and love, the ability to make my own path and do what I want in EvE. I've now had something taken away from me in this game that I enjoyed. There is no gain in this, from a user perspective, I have gained nothing that adds to the experience, only detracts.
The above idea is clever and good, but I dont understand why the entire jukebox had to be taken away. It may be outdated but then that should be resolved, not taking the function out. I want to choose what music I listen to when I want to listen to it, I dont want the game to decide for me. It's lead to me disabling the sound effects of the game, which is a shame as the new sound effects are good.
Limiting Innovation
Alright thats a bit dramatic but its true. EvE is about an immersive experience that with the sound effects, visual effects and music can really suck you in and gets people hooked. I really think that the music is a massive feature of this. It auto plays when you first install the client. New members will hear it and associate EvE with it. It adds to the effect, now as it did when I first started to play. I, and many others, looked forward to the day when we would hear that the music was being revamped again, new tracks, newer mixes, but this...is not the kind of innovation we were hoping for. What has been taken is the easy route - why fix something when you can just remove the issue altogether?

TL;DR - The new music features are good but you dont need to take away the ability to select music as we want CCP. Make it so that when the JB isnt played, the auto-select feature works. The music in EvE was good, and I want to listen to the tracks when I choose, not when the client chooses for me. I've long been an advocate that the sound effects in the game factor into the enjoyment, and that they help with gameplay. I dont like the new 'music', and the plain sound effects are annoying to the point where I just dont have sound anymore. In my eyes losing an aspect like that is a massive blow to the effort put into the game to draw you in and enjoy it. I'm not alone.
Preserving what remains of this here on post #573. If you remove more of it from the top, it'll still be way down here.

edit: link to post #273 which quotes an earlier version

FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."

Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
Seranova Farreach
Biomass Negative
#574 - 2013-12-01 06:00:46 UTC
maybe a toggle box to activate jukebox or deactivate (activateing the new non jukebox music)

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Funzinnu BT
FUNZWIKI
#575 - 2013-12-01 06:02:41 UTC
+1
Ebs Tarmin
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#576 - 2013-12-01 12:02:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Ebs Tarmin
+1 I know the fanboys and sheep are quick to bleet out the old "Use an external music player" solution, but:

1) There is a thing in the world of game theory called "immersion". I know its not something the EvE devs or the fanboys are familiar with, but it actually makes games more "enjoyable" to play. Having to close the EvE window everytime you want to change tracks "breaks this sense of immersion"

2) The EvE jukebox let me build easily excessable playlists -something that my current media player does not.
Kalel Nimrott
Caldari Provisions
#577 - 2013-12-01 14:58:30 UTC
/Signed

Bob Artis, you will be missed.

O7
Maz Athonille
Mad Dawgs Mining
#578 - 2013-12-02 00:41:54 UTC
/signed
FleetAdmiralHarper
Kitchen Sink Kapitals
#579 - 2013-12-02 13:44:02 UTC
yes plz. i would very much like the juke box back.
i hate the current audio system. and i just leave my game muted now. as do many other people i know.
E'Rok Carnage
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#580 - 2013-12-02 17:07:14 UTC
FleetAdmiralHarper wrote:
yes plz. i would very much like the juke box back.
i hate the current audio system. and i just leave my game muted now. as do many other people i know.



That "reving up" sound that ships make now is SOOOO fracking irritating eh????