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I'll put further fuel on the alt-accusation fire by not-quite-empty-quoting this.

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Now follow through with that well written piece with some well placed actions!
But indeed it looks like were moving in the right direction now

Good blog.

A man who knows that dreams are limitless, but that people are limited, has far more chance of realising his dreams.

I'm sure that can't have been an easy blog to write, but it needed to be said.

Eve is a game of vast, and most of it untapped, potential - but it doesn't have to deliver it overnight. See each step towards that as a success and embrace it. Certainly from my own perspective I would rather see Eve developing and expanding in an incremental way, rather than leaping from dream to dream - but always falling short.

Well i really do hope this is a massive transformation for ccp and for eve, and not just words. I personally had a dislike to hilmar, because of his arrogance and 'dont care' attitude, but i have to say its nice to see a response like this.
However I hope CCP do not just listen to the playerbase everytime they shout and do make some radical decisions, because eve needs it. And bitter vets will always complain about something!

We get frustrated because you do implement some cool features like FW that has the potential to be fantastic, and it was built up to that, then all we got was a glorified war dec, the issue is you dont finish it...

Of course you have to develop other stuff, and why shouldnt you, but keep developing eve as well...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/33/49967468_c6a7abf51f.jpg

Someone send Hilmar one, he deserves it.

Thank you hillmar, for the letter. I hope this direction will be worked on.

*finally puts the pitchfork away*
(Yes, i had it by my side all the time since monoclegate)

Godspeed!

It takes a big man to step up and take responsibility. This is probably one of the most comforting, and potentially amazing blogs I've ever seen in the history of EVE. You said you've wanted to re-instill the trust of the players in CCP and with EVE itself. Well, Hellmar, you've freaking gone and done it.

I've also read the blog that was released shortly after your own, and I seriously don't think you understand the magnitude of what you've done here. Our TS went from talking about absolutely nothing related to EVE, to an explosion of (what we would equate to) cheering. Every single one of us is excited as **** for all this to come to fruition.

In the eyes of this pilot, you've got my attention and trust. You've figured out all the things we've been screaming for (what seems like) years and decided to fix many of them in one fell swoop. If things work out like we all imagine, you'll have our complete trust and support for many years to come.

Thanks for this Hellmar. We hope to see big things from you all, and while I'm uneasy saying this (which is justifiable given the past), you seem to have the direction which you need to go.

Wait? What? NO! I don't care about my avatar, I want the idiot pictures turned off again like in the old days where I had to click a portrait to view his/her face. This insane focus on the visual experience will be your down fall!

What I want is the game to run smoothly on current hardware, by that I mean current, not some ******** bleeding edge expensive vacuum making an insane amount of noise toaster oven that cost me USD 3000.

CCP has failed again and again in delivering ANY kind of graphics performance - and why the hell are ATI lagging so far behind in performance its almost a crime?

This alone should be enough to focus on getting the core stuff working before launching new ******** graphics intensive stuff - and then I have not even begun talking about the myriad of bugs that plagues Eve like we were part of the dark ages.

Seriously, fix stuff, that's all the players ask for, not this utter crap you deliver.

-zil

Hilmar makes dev blog.
The blog is very wordy.
Results matter more.

Thank you honesty for your hilmar.