EVE General Discussion

Also known as "better"

It's not going in a good direction. Information should be available in one spot for easy access and searchable. Videos mostly do a terrible job here, cannot be searched at all and are basically bling. They are nice and entertaining but there are only few cases, where videos are a superior medium for information transfer atm.

The main reason for the reduction in Dev Blogs in 2016 is that we've been looking at other mediums to talk about the features that we're working on.

Part of this is the fact that we've switched more to video content such as the o7 show, and feature tours for major releases (these are all available on our YouTube Channel), which cuts down the number of "Coming in this Expansion/Release" style blogs.

In addition to this we now have EVE Updates to host our medium term roadmap (it's a little bare for 2017 at present as we're still finalizing feature planning for this year before we announce).

On top of this, the fact that a lot of the "meat" of dev blogs (hard numbers etc) is posted in forum threads in this section now, mean that we don't really need to use dev blogs as much, and it's way easier for us to use the forums to talk numbers with you guys rather than a dev blog comments thread where the numbers in a blog are fixed and more difficult to edit.

We're also trying to keep our communication a lot more concise and grounded compared to what we've released in the past, so that you guys get a clearer picture of what's coming.

Hope this makes sense.

Mediums? Are you telling us that the reason for the reduction in dev blogs is that the dev team are all dead and the only way to communicate with them is via spiritualists?


Talk about bad luck... guess that door isn't going to open any time soon then.

"So now you have to look at 8 different places if you want to know what's going on instead of 1! It's more unified!" - says a man who doesn't know what words mean.

For me it is a negative change. I don't like Reddit and don't wan to spend my time there.

You'd think a company that does development would have the self respect in their own abilities that they'd use their own products.

I by far prefer devblogs, or at least written material on the forums. I hate sitting through videos, they take too long, are slow paced, and most of the time boring as hell filled with pointless fluff (not just CCP, but most videos.) Sucks to sit through a mind numbing hour of video for 2 minutes of information. My main source of EVE news has always been the devpost button. Except it's looking like CCP has sort of just given up on themselves and don't bother talking about things, just "here it is, if you like it or don't, whatever, we don't care any more" on patch day. Seems like only 4 devs are active on the forums any more, 1 does just info dumps every couple month, 2 are foreign language, 1 announces stuff from other devs that absolutely has to be announced.

CCP: you've always had some kind of in development page. Most of the time it's been a failure, ridiculously out of date. For most (or every?) game I've seen, the in development page in general has been a failure as a communications tool. Sure, keep it up to date because a professional does their job, but don't pretend it's a new innovation, and don't pretend it's the same thing as communication.

I see why there is a change needed. What I don't see is why you throw away a working concept BEFORE you have the replacement ready? At the moment it is a bit of a mess to find the information about what new stuff is coming.