EVE General Discussion

Because the things talked about in the CSM are subject to change and are more often than not simply vague ideas talked about and thrown around the room without any real development work having gone into them yet. It's called expectation management.

Players as a general demographic are incapable of understanding the concept of "we haven't even started working on it yet", so we run into issues where players rage about stuff they didn't even need to know about. Let's say CCP was talking about designing a new module that does a fancy thing.

Some players will rage about the fancy thing it does and call it OP before any stats are made.

Some players will rage about CCP designing something that isn't part of their gameplay instead of fixing [playstyle], before the final functionality is finished.

Some players will rage at CCP for nerfing their playstyle in favor of [Goons/N3/carebears/pirates], when CCP isn't even sure if they want it to be allowed at all in [game area].

Some players will use the advance information to figure out how best to make trillions off the introduction of it via market games or be perfectly trained for it, spend all their money/time on getting ready for its release, then rage when CCP changes how it will be produced/used.

Finally, when CCP decides they cannot feasibly work out the technical limitations of the module, some players will rage about the half-assed functionality or the cancellation of the whole idea. Because "CCP PROMISED US THIS MODULE".

It's almost always a bad idea to present your ideas to the customers in the MMO biz before you have something tangible and polished to show them.

First rule of content club is we don't talk about content club.

Second rule is blank because of [USER WAS JUST BANNED FOR DISCUSSION OF CONTENT CLUB].

That's true of gamers in general.

Give them a millimeter, and the noisy bunch will take a mile and complain about not meeting expectations. It's better to just tell them as little as possible, or only tell them something when it's just about to come out so there's no possible way they can misinterpret it and run with it.

drat, I had a good old timey reply but the forums ate it.. oh well.

Secrecy:

because irritating nerd rage over every little thing is irritating

Is there really anybody thinking the CSM is not a joke?

Brain fart.

I don't know if I would call 1 new ship, nerfs and some crap deployable an expansion.

Any time CCP announces (or even hints) about upcoming changes, the mighty meta theory-crafting machine lumbers into action.

Markets are disrupted, forums are flooded and TMC spews more crap than usual. And that's six months before anything actually changes in game. On top of that if the changes don't end up being exactly what the forum experts interpreted general statements by CCP into specific, set in stone, mechanics happens, all hell breaks loose.

As entertaining as that is to watch, I'm still more inclined to see CCP keep upcoming changes under their hat. It's just more fair for everyone playing and not just the big alliances full of no-lifers.

Mr Epeen

Hydrogen Batteries ;)