EVE General Discussion

A better question is: if the other 3 CQs were in good enough shape to lead mittens to believe that "Incarna owns" back in April, how is it that they're not ready for release 5 months later? Enough work was done on them for CCP to believe that they were all 4 going to be released with Incarna until only a few weeks before the expansion launched. Presumably they must have been nearly ready.

What have the Incarna team been doing in those 5 months that has meant that they can't even release what is basically a reskin of the existing "working" Minmatar CQ?

To put this into perspective: The whole Winter Expansion is scheduled to take less time to develop than the Incarna team have been given to merely finish off reskinning the project that they'd already had well over a year to work on.

Again, this is symptomatic of the whole Incarna project: huge resources spent to produce nothing but excuses. How this standard of delivery can be tolerated in a company with external shareholders is beyond my understanding.

Just saying

illustrates both that you were not there and do not understand what happened.

But then I expected as much from a politician.

I like the article, it's spot on for all the right reasons, including that it is just slightly off enough, and casual, to make its way around the whole room and bring in everyone at once to the table for discussion.

Very deftly written, and a good filter, the truth up front, more between the lines when you look deeper, politically charged enough when you step back to bring out all the doomsayers and shed light on an additional source of consternation: the subscribers themselves.

I am of the opinion that the influx of subscribers we got post Apocrypha, and the subsequent lull in subscribers following it over the next few expansions, was us losing a lot of older more seasoned players, and retaining this new crop of Warcraftians that we have now, who complain about everything, good or bad, with little regard for anything but sensationalism.

I have, and I am satisfied with the idea that CCP will never introduce permanent non-vanity items that do not require an item exchange (beyond skill boosters, and the like, that have no corollary in the game at present), in order to preserve the integrity of the player driven economy. Otherwise those like me, will be cancelling their subscriptions.

If they introduce gold ammo that requires an exchange of manufactured ammo, akin to the Loyalty Points store, so be it, it will not be game breaking. Everyone in the game will be able to purchase this ammo from the player market with currency from within the game. It will not be a thin air situation.

With each new expansion, CCP's operating and overhead costs increase. Do you see their subscriptions increasing at a substantial enough rate to compensate?

You do the thinking.

Got a little brown on your nose there?

So conjecture. Thank you.

Thousands of people that were there had the IDEA (in fact also based on their conjecture) that CCP was going to either introduced gold ammo, introduce items that bypassed industrialists (beyond clothing), or both.

Based on hysteria more than logical conjecture you mean.

CCP introducing a way for anyone with sufficient real life money to buy out the mineral index and literally bottom out the player driven market in the process? Hardly.

I am glad that your word fluff impresses people.

How about "riots"? That would be a way to describe it literally and without bias. Which many people are not interested in.

Yes, but then we might have the same problem on the opposite end, too broad...

I sat in local Amarr every night all weekend while the riots were going on, people were copypasta the phrases about CCP taking their monocles back the whole time almost.

I think he did right naming it Monocle Riots even if the term does not lend itself credence to the real issue at the core of the riots, the notion of non-vanity items that would destroy the player driven economy if released.

Something like Trade Hub Riots, Monument Rebellion, Statuegate, Monumentgate, etc. might also be appropriately snappy but refined to only the actual incidents in question, rather than just blanketing a term that could mean just about anything to anyone, i.e. Riots, Incarna Riots, Riots of '11, etc.

Personally I like Monocle Riots, none of the other possibilities are nearly as snappy, memorable, nor easily transposed as symbolic or iconoclastic from a linguistic point of view.





Indeed, Jita Riots would be better than Monocle Riots, even though the riots were occuring at three (?) major trade hubs that I know of (two of which I personally spent time in), it would fit to name them the Jita Riots, I went there myself but only stayed for an hour or so because I did not want to melt my card, lol...

Monocle Riots would age better over time though, given the short term memory a lot of newer players seem to have concerning the game, those that assume the game started when they did, so to speak.