EVE General Discussion

Whenever a project fails the management should be the first to get the axe. It's their responsibility to make the project work, it's the sole reason they are even paid. If the project fails, it's their failure for one reason or another. They can't even blame the other staff for it because it's the management that hires and motivates the staff. Having those failures bounce from project to project, company to company and ******* one up after another seems to be epidemic in the games industry. I just can't wrap my head around how such incompetence can be tolerated.

Ok.

“Meme” is a bit much, at least yet. It comes from the Guardian article on WoD, about ⅓ through.

But they still have the 'The world is a Microtransaction' EA guy, right? He will save CCP, right?

Wow, people are surprised by the fact that higher uppers have writers?

People probably think politicians speak freely too, hu?


Common sense. What? Never heard of it?

I don't see this the same way... It was written in a personal soul searching sort of way. If that makes any sense. I can't think of another way to describe it. Especially due to what was happening at the time when this was written to diffuse the entire situation.

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/2672

Though that doesn't mean I really even care about it. I never put much stock in that apology in the first place. Not even when it was first published.

It does not matter how you see it. Pretty much everyone out there who speaks in public
has a writer. There is no surprise here, except the lack of common sense of people.

This just proves once more how gullible people are.

I like it. It has a certain je ne sais quoi about it. The onomatopoeia is portentous as well, as all that money was ultimately pissed up the wall.

I fully agree with Kane here, though it is a pretty unavoidable side effect of a Community that cares about the game and the people behind it.


I do find it amusing how people are easily fooled by simple journalistic tricks such as this one:

Eventually CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson issued an apology to the players. But even this short appeasement wasn’t what it seemed; according to Blood, Petursson didn’t actually write it.

“He had members of our storyline team – a group responsible for writing in-game content and fiction – put it together,” he says. “He was either so out of touch, so arrogant, or perhaps both, that he couldn’t find the words to say himself. They bailed him out big time.”

The Guardian couldn't honestly accuse Mr. Petursson of being out of touch and/or arrogant, so they let Mr. Blood do it instead! While providing objectively weak but 'sensational' evidence about it.

Truth is, very few people actually know if Mr. Petursson was really arrogant or, on the contrary, humble enough to seek expert help in wording his own, heartfelt, thoughts on a matter of significant importance to the company he leads.

I think they are likely predisposed to feeling he is arrogant or whatever from what has happened in the past prior to this point. The greed is good leak for example. Or the later interviews after that whole thing.

Or what is written on glassdoor.

Is saying he is Arrogant justified from those factors? I have no idea, but they may think so.

However... Out of touch? Yeah I would say it fits.