EVE General Discussion

What names? did I miss something? I didn't know they released names.

They didn't. But a lot of us know people in CCP.

Some of my friends lost their jobs today, and it's a goddamned shame.

-Helicity

CCP is a company, not a charity, and the players are their custumers. Losing your job must be terrible, but i don't see why should i as a customer care, as its none of my damn business.
I don't like it at all that by posting this information ccp is basicly telling us that okay, we get the product we all like, but it comes with people losing their jobs, who were hired under wrong assumptions in the first place.

If such a blog has a place on the frontpage, you should also post that im also spending 20$ or so a month on a video game, which could also help starving children in africa, so im responsible for their suffering aswell.

On Thursday, 19 October 2011, after years of scaling back RPG output, CCP laid off nearly all remaining White Wolf employees, effectively rendering White Wolf Game Studios defunct, although CCP continues to own the trademarks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wolf

Where can we check this? What period did you take into account?


Checking Eve Offline still give me a steady decrease in numbers of logged in players.


Also, unless you bring back the sandbox you will not fix anything. You are still focusing on useless crap and have yet not given any thoughts to small gang warfare and their survivability.

Ohh guess what, logistics ships are not the answer.

and

A sandbox consists out of more than drake/ hurricane/ maelstrom blobs or zealot/ abaddon with guardian blobs.

The fix for your sandbox is there ... i wonder how hard it is to make the decision to undo some of the worst patches.


Right now it's WoT > STOR> Eve where as it used to be Eve.

Shame really CCP still doesn't care about their veteran players, even a bigger shame people need to get fired cause you lost all direction even though your player base warned you loads and loads

While I believe the focus may be placed back where it belongs, I must with sadness salute those hard-working folk who, through no fault or their own, are now faced with swimming through an irradiated landfill of a job market. I hear Montreal has come up in a big way, Vancouver and Seattle may also have some prospects.

I've been through the exact same thing; pretty sleazy that the execs who cause the mess don't take a pay cut.

Hopefully EVE will stay on track going forward, and the subsequent growth will enable some of the WoD crew to return if they so desire.

o7

Quoting my own post. CCP Transmedia said the following over at the white-wolf forums:



http://forums.white-wolf.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1195521#post1195521


This is a sort of a Good Thing

Good luck to all people leaving CCP. I know how hard is to get good job. I hope you will succeed.

I hope it will also be a lesson for CCP management. You are responsible not only for company income but also for your employees.

lol Requiem really was for them then.
That game blew an Im glad it destroyed them.
Now fourth edition D&D should do that to WoTC

Well, this is certainly sad new.

First of all, like so many others have done, I wish to extend my condolences to those being laid off. It's certainly a bad time for it, but you have skill sets that are in reasonably high demand, so my sincere hope is that this will be but a bump in the road for you.

Secondly, while I'm saddened by the delay this will cause in a game that I was very much looking forward to, I also understand the reasoning, and I'm unfortunately not all that surprised that it came to this. As a player, I noticed that things were getting a bit thin around here, and bad decisions were being made — the summer débâcle was just the ripples of all of those decisions combining into a huge wave of wtfitude. This is made even more sad by the fact (in my eyes) that such a large part of all of that came down to simple poor communication.

Somewhere along the line, someone became unconvinced about the value of feedback and explanation, and at that point, the ability to bring people along on these crazy adventures was kind of lost… Had you been able to communicate and instil confidence in the chosen path, and made the small concessions needed to make people follow it, those numbers would probably look a lot different.

Thirdly……you're an idiot. The reason those people lost their jobs was because CCP made the horribly bad decision of not feeding its golden goose. There were (and still are) plenty of things wrong with the game, but had they've been attended to, people would have felt far more compelled to keep giving CCP money, which might have kept those people in their jobs. We are not a welfare agency — we are customers, and if we do not get the product we pay for, then it is right to not give the producer any money, and it is right for them to have to adjust their production to fix the issues they caused.