EVE General Discussion

Eve is dying and all that, but let's be honest for a moment. If STO is still alive and kicking (releasing a new expansion), then eve probably has at least another ten years in it.

Wasn't that he WoD office actually? Since they canceled that, it makes sense they would close the office.

Hey TMC, how about a citation.. or are these things optional for your writers?

What's a company homed in Iceland doing with an office in one of the most expensive cities on the West Coast?

Heck one month's rent on that office could probably have been used to pay a designer for a new Imicus model FFS.


Yes there is a bit of a malaise about the game that's for certain but I don't think it will kill the game. CCP has plenty of time to recover it. We'll know by December.

http://eve-offline.net

Even the most ignorant person here can see there's an issue with that all time graph....

Well, I clicked it because when i saw "Circling the Drain" as the title I assumed it was about TEST's imminent expulsion from Hero.

I read through that from one of the comments in the OP's article, it paints a pretty dismal picture.

No, that office was in Atlanta.

I'll grant you that the general readership of the article doesn't really have a way of confirming that the linked document and pastebin translation are authentic. That said, assuming that it is authentic, the citation is given in the article (English translation linked):



It states quite clearly in that document that CCP's profits are down compared to the same period last year, and that they have incurred several costs associated with terminating the WoD project that are contributing the majority share to those lowered profits. I'd say that constitutes "poorer than expected financial performance of the company," which would definitely be a driving force behind the decision to close a local office. Taken literally, no, there's nothing there explicitly saying that CCP's lowered profits are the reason behind the closure, but anyone who's ever worked in a corporate environment (I currently do) can reasonably come to that conclusion, because that's how corporations work. "Profits are down? OK, where can we cut costs to make up the difference?"

Regardless, the author makes it pretty clear that he's making the assumption that the document is authentic, hence the phrase "seems to be" in your quoted text. I guess I'm not really sure what else you're expecting...