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What exactly is the "new direction"
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Eric Torset
Second Six Corporation
#1 - 2011-12-14 17:59:27 UTC
I keep seeing this come up quoted regarding Crucible, but I can't find out what it is supposed to mean. Is this a quote from a dev blog or something? I searched the forum, and everyone seems to know what "new direction" means but me. Help?
Kahz Niverrah
Distinguished Johnsons
#2 - 2011-12-14 18:01:00 UTC
Eric Torset wrote:
I keep seeing this come up quoted regarding Crucible, but I can't find out what it is supposed to mean. Is this a quote from a dev blog or something? I searched the forum, and everyone seems to know what "new direction" means but me. Help?

If you like polished features, balancing, bug fixes, general improvements and overall flying-in-space excellence, you will like the new direction.

If you enjoy walking in stations and half-finished expansions, you will be disappointed.

I don't always post on the forums, but when I do, I post with my main.
Jaroslav Unwanted
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2011-12-14 18:03:20 UTC
not sure

up, down, left, right, somewhere in between...

cant say probably in some other dimension .. oooh wait... actually no.
Xolve
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#4 - 2011-12-14 18:04:56 UTC
I'm so glad they moved away from Walking in Stations and are focusing on Ships in Space Stuff.
oldbutfeelingyoung
Perkone
Caldari State
#5 - 2011-12-14 18:10:03 UTC  |  Edited by: oldbutfeelingyoung
since this last direction made them a patch in 6 weeks a little love for WIS doesn,t hurt FIS .
And for those who hate it and still buy fancy nex stuff Roll ,you don,t have to use it,stay at shipspinning

R.S.I2014
Xolve
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6 - 2011-12-14 18:28:16 UTC
oldbutfeelingyoung wrote:
since this last direction made them a patch in 6 weeks a little love for WIS doesn,t hurt FIS .
And for those who hate it and still buy fancy nex stuff Roll ,you don,t have to use it,stay at shipspinning



WIS got love, enjoy your new 3 alternative domeciles. I'd rather see their resources aimed at issues the players have been asking to get fixed for years now..

We're on a roll.. Rockets, Hybrids, New Ships, Engine Trails, Anomalies, just a little more mate, you'll get your time.
Astrid Stjerna
Sebiestor Tribe
#7 - 2011-12-14 18:29:10 UTC
Prior to Crucible, there were a series of mistakes and missteps on CCP's part -- leaked e-mails, broken promises, the impression that the players were more valuable as 'cash cows' than customers, and a seriously botched Incarna launch, to name only a few.

The result was a personal written apology from CCP's CEO (where he pretty much went willingly under the headsman's axe to take the blame for the debacle) the laying off of a portion of CCP's staff, and a 'refocusing' that included the restructuring and relocation of the Customer Service department, the indefinite hold of Incarna features, and a return to EVE's core concepts and design goals.

The 'new direction' is that CCP declared shortly before announcing Crucible that they're narrowing their primary development to pretty much just the EVE universe so they can focus as many resources as possible on its development.

I can't get rid of my darn signature!  Oh, wait....
Rixiu
PonyTek
#8 - 2011-12-14 18:58:55 UTC
CCP took eve players money for granted. Then they realised that's not the case when 8% quit in the months following incarna. Trying to get these players back is the "new direction".
bornaa
GRiD.
#9 - 2011-12-14 19:01:24 UTC
Xolve wrote:
I'm so glad they moved away from Walking in Stations and are focusing on Ships in Space Stuff.


Xolve wrote:
oldbutfeelingyoung wrote:
since this last direction made them a patch in 6 weeks a little love for WIS doesn,t hurt FIS .
And for those who hate it and still buy fancy nex stuff Roll ,you don,t have to use it,stay at shipspinning



WIS got love, enjoy your new 3 alternative domeciles. I'd rather see their resources aimed at issues the players have been asking to get fixed for years now..

We're on a roll.. Rockets, Hybrids, New Ships, Engine Trails, Anomalies, just a little more mate, you'll get your time.


Says guy in NeX shirt... Lol
[Yes, I'm an Amateur](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRa-69uBmIw&feature=relmfu)
oldbutfeelingyoung
Perkone
Caldari State
#10 - 2011-12-14 19:07:55 UTC
Xolve wrote:
oldbutfeelingyoung wrote:
since this last direction made them a patch in 6 weeks a little love for WIS doesn,t hurt FIS .
And for those who hate it and still buy fancy nex stuff Roll ,you don,t have to use it,stay at shipspinning



WIS got love, enjoy your new 3 alternative domeciles. I'd rather see their resources aimed at issues the players have been asking to get fixed for years now..

We're on a roll.. Rockets, Hybrids, New Ships, Engine Trails, Anomalies, just a little more mate, you'll get your time.



Well seeing what CCP did in 6 weeks (thats what CCP stated) there are plenty recources left to keep everybody happy.
I am not asking to stop the direction they have with FIS ,imagine what could happen in 6 months ,even with a small team on WIS
putting WIS (not talking about Incarna) on ICE ,is one step in the wrong direction,backwards

But thats my opinion ,hopefully a lot more share the same.
WIS doesn,t have to hold back FIS even if they work a little on it

grtz WIS/FIS lover oldbut

R.S.I2014
yer mammy
Federal Defense Union
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2011-12-14 19:13:11 UTC  |  Edited by: yer mammy
bornaa wrote:

Says guy in NeX shirt... Lol


they were free, you know...
Kiandoshia
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2011-12-14 19:15:29 UTC
Backwards.
oldbutfeelingyoung
Perkone
Caldari State
#13 - 2011-12-14 19:26:58 UTC
yer mammy wrote:
bornaa wrote:

Says guy in NeX shirt... Lol


they were free, you know...




yes the aurum was free a make-believe the NEX is useful

but why buy those clothes if you don,t want WIS .

R.S.I2014
yumike
Doomheim
#14 - 2011-12-14 19:57:03 UTC
oldbutfeelingyoung wrote:
yer mammy wrote:
bornaa wrote:

Says guy in NeX shirt... Lol


they were free, you know...




yes the aurum was free a make-believe the NEX is useful

but why buy those clothes if you don,t want WIS .


They are an option now, Like the option or not - it's there, may as well get the marginal amount of use from it ?
Potamus Jenkins
eXceed Inc.
Plucky Adventurers
#15 - 2011-12-14 20:01:46 UTC
Eric Torset wrote:
I keep seeing this come up quoted regarding Crucible, but I can't find out what it is supposed to mean. Is this a quote from a dev blog or something? I searched the forum, and everyone seems to know what "new direction" means but me. Help?



example = the gift remap


they listened to people about the way the current remaps work. they could have just said deal with it. instead they changed it for the better thanks to feed back


thats definately a new direction.
Xolve
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#16 - 2011-12-14 20:11:37 UTC
oldbutfeelingyoung wrote:
but why buy those clothes if you don,t want WIS .



So I can look amazing when you encounter me after having violenced your internet spaceboat, of course.

I also have boots and pants, for no other practical reason then acute OCD for black clothing (also largely because this character accrued all the 'free Aurum' giveaways from CCP and had enough to buy it).
oldbutfeelingyoung
Perkone
Caldari State
#17 - 2011-12-14 20:45:14 UTC  |  Edited by: oldbutfeelingyoung
Xolve wrote:
oldbutfeelingyoung wrote:
but why buy those clothes if you don,t want WIS .



So I can look amazing when you encounter me after having violenced your internet spaceboat, of course.

I also have boots and pants, for no other practical reason then acute OCD for black clothing (also largely because this character accrued all the 'free Aurum' giveaways from CCP and had enough to buy it).




lol just doing some pvp with some 0.0 friends lately so who knows you get your chance some day to turn my spaceboat into scrap ,i am not that good in pvp yet.
Or maybe some day after i spam cowardly the warpbutton and manage to escape,you catch me feeling safe in a station ,you run me down the corridors and put a fist between my eyes ,just before i look at that amazing shirt of yours

is that not an appealing thought

R.S.I2014
Nephilius
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#18 - 2011-12-14 20:57:38 UTC
Second star on the right...and straight on until morning.
"If."
Graic Gabtar
The Lemon Party
#19 - 2011-12-14 21:03:57 UTC
Rixiu wrote:
CCP took eve players money for granted. Then they realised that's not the case when 8% quit in the months following incarna. Trying to get these players back is the "new direction".
I've often wondered about this.

If 8% was all it needed for they to sack 20% of their staff, all but can a game and do a 180 degree change of plans on another, how precarious is the financial state?

This isn't an "EVE is dying!!" claim just an open question.
Beaches
Doomheim
#20 - 2011-12-14 21:16:06 UTC
Graic Gabtar wrote:
Rixiu wrote:
CCP took eve players money for granted. Then they realised that's not the case when 8% quit in the months following incarna. Trying to get these players back is the "new direction".
I've often wondered about this.

If 8% was all it needed for they to sack 20% of their staff, all but can a game and do a 180 degree change of plans on another, how precarious is the financial state?

This isn't an "EVE is dying!!" claim just an open question.


Those 8% represent a lot more than 8,000 raw subscription fees, think about all the PLEX sales/use they lost in those numbers. I don't really know though, I have no numbers and am just guessing. Anyway 10% of total revenue is very substantial, especially if it continues to roll downhill which in the mmo industry could be fatal.

Also, remember how little blue posts there were before? What community management was actually going on? I'm pretty sure the fact that they would only log on to indiscriminately ban people and lock threads was telling of the general work environment of that branch.
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