Out of Pod Experience

Dust Base Put out this podcast interview a few weeks ago. It's a little old, but I keep coming back to it as it remains the only inspiring information I have heard this year. Just listening you can hear CCP Dropbear getting all excited over the game without being able to say anything: http://dust514base.blogspot.com/2011/12/vandv-podcast-episode-31-with-ccp.html

Personally I understand some of the reasons CCP chooses to keep things closed doors, but we're starting to see some of the problems that we saw with Incarna here. Yes, they're probably working to make sure that doesn't happen by releasing with full content and not giving false information, but we also got a problem of not being able to properly discuss anything with anybody asking about it. And they've already blown their deadline for the Beta trials this year. I'd love to see some more on the game, but more so, I want to hear about the mechanics and rollout plans. We got competition with other games out there; Don't want to see us get left behind in the dust...

As for the podcast, I'm curious as to what the community thinks about it. I enjoyed it immensly and wished more devs gave interviews in that table-talk fashion.

thank you for sharing that link.

ut engine 90% outa the box the other 10%.............

I was led to believe there would be ponies in this thread?

Thanks for the link.

Indeed a nice link. Thanks!

I'm sure there was a thread at the top of the forum when the OP made this thread. Why does that matter? There's always a thread at the top of the forum :P

Dropbear gets excited about anything really...and that is not a bad thing.

And that's why it caused such an outrage, in a meta kind of way: people were highly annoyed that it was removed, but outraged at CCP's ignorance of the blindingly obvious fact that people would be highly annoyed by it.

It had only been one of the most repeated questions in the lead-up to the release and CCP's abject failure in picking up on this very clear message and not being able to imagine the self-evident just further underscored the complete breakdown in their ability to communicate and the vast distance they had created between themselves and the player base, which were among the primary causes of the summer rage.

Ahh, very true. I agree with you that much of the emotion and the "whining" are both demanded by the CSM and CCP as a means of voicing the public opinion. It is important for feedback to be given those leading the community at large, lest they lose sight of who we are and where we are going. However, remaining true to the origin and definition of the Forum, there is also the well-known but soft spoken issue in the over-supply of community feedback. This is why we don't run a government or a business by a forum, it will **** the brain of even the most critical analyst and leave detail to the wind in favor of the larger favor or compromise.

This given, I ultimately prefer the Forum and accept the oversupply of wine, but it would be fantastic to get a little more cheese to go with it. It's depressing to have to wade through 10 pages of repeating complaints about ancillary agendas just to find that nugget of original topic you were looking for in the first place. Amen?

Unfortunately lots of developers seem to ignore well reasoned and politely written feedback, they only seem to pay attention when the dissatisfied customers have degenerated into a frenzied mob. Even then some ignore it until it either starts making stories in the gaming press or it begins to give the accountants cause to worry.

CCP ignoring the players over ship spinning was a classic case of a developer sticking their fingers in their ears and going "lalalalala". Once it was announced that we would be getting captains quarters and that they would be a mandatory replacement for the hanger players told CCP that they didn't like it. At first the players asked CCP not to do it, then as the roll-out date got closer people begged CCP not to do it, in the last few days before the release people demanded that CCP change their plans. CCP ignored everyone and the only compromise was a low res picture of a door and that was only because performance issues meant some people physically couldn't load the CQ.

Eventually the loss of the hanger was one of the issues behind the angry rampaging, rioting and shiptoasting mob. If CCP had made the CQ optional from the start players who raged might just have simply turned the CQ off and used the hanger and ignored it, it might just have saved a lot of anger. The CQ being shoved into peoples faces was a constant reminder to the issues that made them angry and acted like a wet trout round the chops and gave the impression that CCP where doing it on purpose to ram the NeX store down everyone's throat.