EVE General Discussion

Quite a few beat you to it ;)

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This is what you should have done 2-3 years ago. I seriously hope its not to late now.

One being that they fired most of White Wolf Atlanta after the summer of rage. Id have gotten the **** out of that company after that seeing that they were expendable as hell

Deliberately misrepresenting the facts, a.k.a. lying, is not courtesy. Go re-read one directly affected person’s comment from the reddit thread quoted above: she doesn't seem to have felt like it was either. No statement was called for. One was given nevertheless. This wasn't ‘good management’, or ‘damage control’, or ‘public relations’. It was just lying. Not impressed. Last time I take CCP Falcon’s word, on its own, for anything.

Next on the list:

Dust 514

Personaly i give it not more than 12 months before it will sold / canceling development.

Agreed. Having been laid off before, nothing is worse than the false hope of some corporate lackey. I feel sorry for those laid off, and even worse for those who saw CCP Falcon's comments on reddit and were hopeful they'd still have a job.

Either don't say anything, or give your (former) employees the truth about their situation. The fact that rumors even got out in the first place is testament to bad management around the layoff / closure.

Yea, if WoD was cancelled because they couldn't deliver the experience they wanted their user base to have, you gotta think Dust514 is next on the list.

Too bad, I really liked the WoD universe. Although I must admit I had 'some' ( ) doubts if CCP could pull off making it into a decent game given the huge ammount of **** ups on various projects by CCP in recent years.

I figured it was doomed as soon as I heard that they were going back to square one because of Rust/DayZ. Nothing against those games--I've never played either--but if you chase every new shiny you will never ship anything, or maybe you'll push out some poorly-stitched-together Frankenstein monster of a game, only to watch it collapse under its own weight.

I guess I'm puzzled that WoD itself wasn't inspiration enough. But then, I haven't heard much good about the working environment in the Atlanta offices, so maybe nothing was ever going to happen. It's a shame, because a WoD MMO could be amazing, and CCP could pull it off. Their particular brand of mostly-hands-off dystopian sandbox is perfect for the game.

Gothic-Punk Personal Horror, pyramid schemes, loss of humanity, tragic endings.
But that is still not needed to tell you that you are utterly wrong in comparing cWoD or nWoD to Twilight. The two have nothing to do with each other. WoD is almost as old as I am, I have played it for more than half my life by now. Calling it a Twilight-induced fad is a non-sequiter and an insult to your own abilities to comprehend.
If anyone thinks that WoD and Twilight would appeal to the same audience, they are deluded. Would WoD appeal to tweenage girls? No. WoD would appeal to a mature audience, in their twenties or older, who like the personal horror, the stories of humanity lost, the clash of young versus ancient, the paranoia and distrust, the building of what is yours ... The same groups to whom the original pen and paper games appealed to.

Would tweenage girls and other fans of Twilight sign up for WoD? Some might, most probably wouldn't. Like you get people in EVE who wants security to do undisturbed PvE, you'd get people who cannot fit into the WoD universe as well. Like EVE, however, it would probably be a self-rectifying process.
WoD is a grander setting than EVE is right now.

I had very high hopes for a cWoD MMO. It was a part of what made me continue with EVE, to see what CCP Games could do with this game as a prelude to the real test of doing the cWoD universe justice.
Would they have failed that task? Yes, just like White Wolf did.

So perhaps it was the least painful way, this highway paved with betrayals and in direction of Hell.