EVE General Discussion

Good luck with that. Who the hell would believe any of this?

My buddy at work was presented with his 15 year pin, a nice plaque and a handshake from the Company President.

4 days later he got his lay off notice along with 40 others.... LOL...

How are those SAAB shares doing?

@Thread: Arguing about whether or not a Valkyrie is a sim or a FPS? does it really matter ?

Bullshit, how do you think we make the money for the several billions of isk we need to pay to get those war decs every week? We do economical and non pew stuff so that we can pew pew. The carebears on other side want to not have to do pew pew to be able to do their stuff. Your understandign of the double standard is reversed!

A thread about suicide ganking freighters has received more replies than this one.

The apathy is strong with the remaining player base.

I guess suicide ganking has more... Pshhhhh.

Unfortunately a lot of people only take to the forums to vent or chestbeat due to something that happened to them in the game. If I wasn't skimming the forums out of boredom, I would never have even known about the layoffs. I honestly hope everyone involved land on their feet and are sucessful in their future enterprises.

With regard to WoD, I was really looking forward to that game as I grew up RPing in that setting with Vampire and Wraith. But to be honest, with CCP's screwing the pooch on Ambulation/Incarna (which I also was extremely excited about) I can't say with any honesty I'm surprised.

Good luck to all the duders losing their jobs, and indeed those staying at CCP.

Business is all fun and games until some c*nt puts a hotel on Mayfair...

Companies have control over their payroll.

When "crunch time" comes, usually because a product fails to meet market expectations or a product just doesn't make it out of development, a company exercises that control.

We've seen the layoffs. The rest is still speculation.

THIS

I think that the stakes are on Crius and the industry rework. But that's not an attempt to increase PCU, actually, jsut a necessary step down the road to the next Jesus feature, coming in 2015 or whenever it's done.

I'm happy to "discuss" this. I'd preface my remarks with the observation that, given CCP's descent into the abyss of corporate mentality, even sending a Dev here to post this as a sort of "mea culpa" reeks of deception.

I've been saying for four years now this corporation has lost its ever-lovin' mind. The Aura (reference intended) with which we began has slowly spoiled over time. You can track the disappearance of the original spirit, the generation of the present one and Hilmar's ego expansion on the same graph. Many is the time I likened the management of CCP to little boys who never quite left daddy's garage. I wasn't joking. I thought it was the most appropriate analogy, and still do.

I lifted some quotes from articles in major news organs to amplify and vicariously endorse my assessment:

"Without the time or resources to properly do so, many things were left half-delivered, to be iterated upon later -- which never happened. CCP has an extensive track record of promising to return to features and never doing so."

This reminds me so much of what I used to say to my son when he was a boy growing up. You dads out there know what I mean. You young men should recall having heard such things said to you as you matured. Thing is, this is being said about full-grown men engaged in what we're supposed to consider to be "serious business."

"Worst of all, according to Nick Blood (a former CCP dev and GM), the entire point of the expansion (walking around in space stations) was let down by the Reykjavic office's art team. It took them nearly the entire development time to create one faction's captain's quarters. Yet again, WoD team was asked to crossover in order to bail out an EVE expansion."

Rob Peter to pay Paul long enough and they both go broke. Anyone with credible management experience KNOWS what's behind this sort of thing. Invariably it's symptomatic of biting off more than one can chew, or, the eyes too big for the stomach. Again, admonitions that belong in child-rearing, not serious corporate management.

However, is there evidence other than this mistake made in trying to start a new enterprise? Yeah, there was that expansion - which was in itself a disaster within an already up and running enterprise. There was a PLAYER RIOT? After denying there was a problem, and seeing subscriptions plummet, CCP offers an apology:

"Eventually CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson issued an apology to players...[he] didn't actually write.... He was either so out of touch, so arrogant (or perhaps both) that he couldn't find the words to say himself."

How like them. How their reputation fell from soaring heights through the drainpipe in the basement floor. And, of course, the "sister" project to EVE, DUST 514, allegedly an accompaniment to EVE but actually a project being piggy-backed off EVE:

"When Dust 514 was finally released...reviews generally praised the concept, but savaged the well below par execution.
It flopped."

How did a group of guys with such an auspicious and audacious start manage to hurl themselves into the banal and pedestrian mentality of the corporation? Let this be a lesson to you young'uns out there. You can't get good fruit from a bad tree. Once the tempted take a bite of the poisoned apple, the result is always the same. It's just sad, and a shame to see it happen to the ones we once loved so dearly.

Finally. This is the second layoff in four years. The irony of sending to the unemployment line fifty loyal troops the same DAY the state of Georgia enacts a tax break for game developers to foster growth in the industry - GEORGIA of all places???? I just can't believe my eyes. I need a stiff drink, and quit drinking likker fifteen years ago.