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A reasonable question. It's a conversation which is likely to come up once the non-incumbents have signed our NDAs. That said, my personal opinion is we have to be careful when dabbling too much directly with marketing - we aren't here to advertise the game as such. If we make the game better then that should naturally happen anyway.

I figure marketing will instead shift to HOW QUICKLY new content is being rolled out.

after all, would you be more excited about 10 toys at christmas, or 1 new toy every just over a month? (O.O spellcheck doesnt think christmas is a word?)

So, marketing, instead of focusing around the one big release that may or may not fly well with the players, would shift to saying stuff is coming out all the time.

And CCP already rides on the big-battles the media picks up on.

But eh.

If u google eve, u already find online remakrs of the 10 release sequal, so the decission alone causes publicity. Marketing is a job apart. Persoanlly i always expressed feeling that acsm is partly a marketing instrument and dont mind exposure while i do it, as long as i can be dead critical at the same time. Your most critical customers can also be your most loyal advocates.

Having 10 releases, working with scrum, kanban and the sprints can be a awsome inspiring workmethod for developpers, it also requires alot of practise, and we will see stuff moved over releases obviously as u set the bar high and short. But it also means your resources get locked uo only short, not for a long period of time, making meetings with to many people, tying uo assets. This set up allows hopefully sprints that finish stuff and creatign a more mobile ccp, where also internally more people get to work with eachother quicker, so u know your own compagny much better, then being tied up in 1 part of a project.

As a it dude i am excited ccp does move down this way and puts it to the test with the releases, and fully realise this will make **** move along time scales unexpsected for us soemtimes.

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Yes the nda could feel like tying your hands, and some of the critism will be only internal, but at the same time thta critism can de chaneled and directed much more too ccp then i could be without. Already, even without the tag i am in same channel debating euro song festival and eve at times and days normal employees wouldnt be involved with their work. I hope that the nda wil bring me more then it will cost me, and aftehr one year i can tell u if thats true lol

I guess that is how u perceive things and how u see the world. I try to look at it from a positive side. I find good marketing crucial for a game i love more then anything i ever played. If my actions make more poeple enjoy eve and increase its survivability i will gladly be a part of it.

At the same time i am looking at circles of influence, as i try to increase mine and put my actions where my thoughts are. Running for csm beats not running, getting involved beats not voting and saying it wont make a difference. The day u stop trying is the day u start slowly dying.

I can honestly say that already being in just a few days, i know i made the right choice running. Being able to talk to very engaged poeple from ccp and fellow csm duders and girlz is a energy boost. I see feedback asked from us on alot of stuff, and advice being turned into action straight away. Ofcourse i cant reveal and blabla, but yeah. Things discussed are written down, and some things that always like simple to me get explained as why its hard. Funny how alliances and corporations are made database wise and influence stuff like expanding corp fittings and bookmakrs to allaince level. God i hope thats not nda haha.

I honestly feel that csm can be all those things, part of marketing as much as a serieus sparring partner for ccp. In the end we both want a great game with a healty subscription base, i wanna play it, and they like to pay their salaries with them and wokr in a way that gives them satisfaction.


Hopefully the above gives u a insight how , atleast i personallly, see csm and ccp