Out of Pod Experience

Regarding the part he hopes EVE dies quietly, you should read that again but with your glasses on or ask someone with a better eye sight than you to read it loud for you - he hopes for Dust to die. Not EVE.

He is not entirely wrong either. Valkyrie is 'gimmicky' because relies on a device for the immersion and whilst immersive VR is a very neat concept, Valkyrie is a very simple game so.. meh?

Actually I erh, do have glasses on, but that's bad because my contact lense prescription is more upto date than my glasses :P

Anyway


That's not a clear statement towards Dust tbh, he might be talking about "CCP's output since he left", which is... EvE. As I say the article is worded ambiguously in parts

None of which has anything to do with him. According to that article he was fired and sold his stake. So.... HTFU. Didn't he invent it? Does the timing of this article not strike you as odd? Whoever this person is, I'd have way more respect if he had come out at the point things were rosy and started an intellectual lawsuit - and won. But he can't, so he's bitching on a media site now things look bad, and twisting the knife. That's not altruistic. And don't ever tell me to learn how to read again, you pleb :)

I'm not sure how you can separate a desire to see Dust to die "quietly", slamming a future Valk development as "gimmicky" as anything but an attack on CCP. Thing is, he left in 2002 according to that article. Before Beta. So... why should anyone give a toss what he thinks about CCP since he left? He didn't WORK there, and by the sounds of it isn't even a player. He wants concept recognition, AND to punish the existing team in some way, after being fired and bought out.

Oh and he has been developing a project of his own. Since 2007. Which is about to open offices ~ somewhere.

Perhaps I am misreading it. Overall it looks like the spite of a former employee who missed out, is only 'merely bitter', but is more than willing to try grab some exposure. Having your four year old daughter interrupt the interview is a nice, irrelevant touch. Presumably it's to demostrate maturity of some sort, but really it comes across as calculating. Having a child does not make you a nice person, or a better one, which is implied.

I'm sure jumping on bad press to get back at former colleagues and promote a future project is a tactical career move in the gamer development industry. It could also be how you put your credibility into the ground for being a whiny backstabber who has apparently had no input since 2002 and is still bleating about it, and has a project of their own which needs attention. And funding.

He is not just a former employee.

He is the founder and first CEO of CCP, and also first lead designer and intellectual author of EVE's IP. You are playing his game, developed by his company, which he used to lead until he cracked under pressure and became a liability too soon to be properly credited and recognized.

That's how a creator looks like; not all are good businessmen and leaders, and yet you play EVE Online because this guy, of all people in the world, wanted a Elite MMO.

It's a kind of irony that an actual Elite MMO can be a nail in EVE's coffin.

BTW, Incarna as it turned was a unmitigated disaster... but adding avatars AND alternate types of gameplay to EVE was EVE's only hope for long term survival.

Also he is generous to consider that CCP was too ambitious with WoD, rather than just mismanaged the project.

So what? Even if he was pretty much ousted from the company and had nothing do with any of the projects that all range from just being a bad idea to being mindbogglingly stupid, I don't see how he couldn't be sentimental about things because he did help found CCP after all and it shouldn't surprise anyone if he wants the company to do well even if there is bitterness.

As for telling you to learn how to read, I don't ever recall telling you to learn how to read, I however remember telling you to "read that part again with your glasses on" which is a wholly different thing, yes? But seeing you struggle with the difference, you might as well learn how to read again, you colossal f**king idiot.

Or look past the sales hype that we were all subjected to and recognize it for what it really was/is, just a platform for micro-transactions. And the way it was going, any "game" added to it (it has none) would have likely revolved around micro-transactions (as it still does), such as gambling etc. It's a cash game, period. A cash game in the industry (of all these newer fail games), it simply revolves around the micro-transaction, looking for the few (usually ages 18-25 statistically for undeveloped minds) weak people that cant control themselves and spend thousands of dollars, regardless of whether or not there is any actual game play. It's no secret, publishers/developers openly talk about it (skill game vs cash game), how to design it better for the big payout. CCP got caught up in it. Cha-ching! This guy, he looks to be more the old traditional developer, looking for the skill game, to build the better game, the [lost] art of game development.

No I'm talking about game design, in a thread about a game designer. Get past the ancient sales hype... ? You are looking at the added platform of a cash game. Here I'll dig out a link, maybe you don't understand.. here, maybe it'll save you from being the next whale:
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130626/194933/The_Top_F2P_Monetization_Tricks.php
As you may notice, some of that stuff went directly into Incarna. There was no "game" coming, it was a money scheme for the few that would hand over huge wads of money because they were just too weak to resist, too young, too naive. And a lot of game developers are under pressure to make these types of games or lose publishers and investors.

Like in a sub game such as this, you more or less have a fixed income. Especially during your run, it's not like pre-launch where you can speculate millions of players and entice investors, then launch a huge marketing campaign to spike subs at launch and get the micro-transaction ball rolling with claims of "success" and popularity. But even in those f2p games that over speculate while having lower activity numbers, they tend to still make the investors some money before shutting down the game, a more safe bet.

See, the EVE FiS won't work that way, not years after launch, so they introduce a new platform, one you 'cant live without', one based on avatars. Now through this new system, which was heavily hyped up with all sorts of promises, well income speculation was most likely very high, off those that are weak and cannot control themselves and their bank accounts, looking goood to investors. And then since there is no logical way to transform this sandbox game into a full blown f2p, you have the other games for CCP to develop that can take advantage of the cash game invention. And there you have it, what went wrong in ~"2007" and which was really more so industry wide.

It was poorly written, left a lot open for interpretation, and read like a backhand followed by a kiss and then another backhand. Amateur 'journalism' at its finest. As a side note it was overly verbose to say so little and then leave pertinent information about the guys current business shortcomings.