EVE General Discussion

It seems to me that the decision has nothing to do with Eve.

Rather, WoD development has been cut because they couldn't get it to work properly. Remember - it uses the same engine as Eve's WiS feature which is a horrible resource hog even with just one player.

I don't get it how cutting 20% of company may change "soon" attitude of CCP developers.


Example: there are tons of clothing available within the game engine right now (try to link items in chat to word "shirt") but 3 months after Incarna deployment they are still hidden. What are you waiting for? Bankruptcy?

Hey CCP'ers, like many other players, I wish you all the best in your future endeavors. I think all of us hate to see the company that makes such great games as EVE lose out on something. And losing talented people is the biggest loss of all.

It's a day where Hilmar and the rest of the CCP leadership team have truly spoken with their actions and not their words. I don't think many EVE players realized the gravity of what that call would mean. I can only hope that this refocusing will allow CCP to come back fighting on WoD in a year or two without compromising EVE and Dust.


It's a happy day for the future of EVE and a sad day for many of those who care about CCP.

Welp...

As a person I feel bad for those getting cut.
As an eve player I'm glad focus will be returning where it belongs

as an American I'm somewhat disappointed with the statement that workers in Atlanta will feel the biggest cuts while CCP plans on "redeploying" personnel to this location for launch.

yeah, that kind of rubs me wrong...

Am I reading correctly that American CCP employees will be the bulk of the cuts and that they will be replaced by an icelandic team in Atlanta?

I'm trying to be understanding here, but WTF?


PS WHY TEH FORUMS LAGGING SO BAD? DID YOU FIRE THE HAMPSTERS TOO????

My condolences to the staff that are getting the sack.

This leads me to ask CCP an important question. Are you doing this to actually refocus, or are you just using this as an excuse to increase your profit margin?

In many cases such as this, where upper management made hugely expensive strategic errors, said management is replaced.
Other times, they get to continue and run a company into the ground.

Not that CCP will discuss internal stuff like this openly, but I am wondering who, if any, CCP management are being walked out the door.

I am Jacks complete lack of surprise.
And it didn't have to be this way, like Hilmar finally noticed, there were plenty of warnings from all sides. I can't claim to be free of Schadenfreude for stubbornness and arrogance finally reaping the results. Too bad once more the little guy is punished by being fired for mistakes not committed by him.

Ofc the big question remaining is whether CCP will be able to reverse the negative trend in customer satisfaction and resulting declining subscriber numbers or not.

CCP is a company with a bottom line, of course it is to increase their profit margin, it is just now they realize how important that EVE was to their bottom line and losing this many subscribers was in fact not the best financial nor moral decision they have made.

Um, hello, all that bitching and un-subbing is the cause of the cuts - and lets face it with DUST having an EVE link an d being further along, it was inevitable that it would be the one to be less affected. The vampires were much less further along and too far in the future, so it was inevitable that they would see the most reduction. The fact that WW is in Atlanta and that most of the WoD development team was there as well means that yes they'll be seeing most of the cuts. And no they are not being replaced by icelanders moving to Atlanta (insert appropriate snide comment regarding typical american wold views here). What that meant was that some of the Atlanta crew will be re-tasked to work on EVE stuff instead of WoD stuff instead of also loosing their jobs.

Please put some of your SP into reading comprehension.

All my best wishes to those who will lose their jobs and also to the CCP staff as a whole, who will now have to live with this terrible uncertainty.

I will not even cheer as an EVE player. EVE has always been a great game and the future will show if it will become an even better one.