Jita Park Speakers Corner

It is simply not acceptable that in times where sacked CCP Devs are literally sat in their pyjamas crying into their cereal, that the money is available to fly these people to Iceland to ineffectually posture, pad their CVs, get drunk and try to maintain the delusion of grandeur they labour under.

This has even started to become clear to themselves. Only days ago they crowed and gloated over the hilmarrrrgh "apology" blog, fighting amongst themselves to claim the biggest piece of the credit cake. Now, with 120 sackings, they have all developed SSS (sloping shoulder syndrome) as they seek to blame each other and even the players who flocked to their call for protest. Even the Chair of the CSM has let his nihilistic facade slip a little as the guilt hits him as to his role in the sacking of his great drinking buddies at CCP.

A farce from day one, the CSM was launched not in an oversight role as publicised by hillmar, but pre nerfed as a "communication conduit" and soon degenerated into childish squables (Constantine vs that goon guy) and rule breaking (trassler and that ankhatamapeonama bird). The 250 issue backlog of agreed issues that CCP routinley ignored stands evidence as to their innefectuality. Many people spent many many wasted hours trying to push issues through the frameowrk CCP gave us to see it drop out of site.

In times of plenty, where vanity project rap videos and dev bands were de-rigeur at CCP HQ - the CSM was an affordable plaything. But in these times of economic woe it is nothing short of outrageous it still exist.


Particulaly considering the reported peenuts many Devs reportedly accept as wages due to their love of the game and company.

CCP are tightening their belts, and now is the perfect time to tighten the metaphorical noose around the CSM. All the clamour for CCP management to resign for failure works with the CSM as well. They have failed. The CSM, in its 6 incarnations, have presided over a near terminal decline in the game. In times of honour, resignation would have been the honourable action in response to abject failure.

It is clear that these "individuals" who inhabit the CSM will not take that route. They need to be sacked. NOW. Hilmar.. get shot of them!

Couldn't agree more.

The CSM is a useless publicity stunt with no real substance, that's de-evolved into a nullsec alliance popularity contest to see who can pin the most votes.

A very small minority of the playerbase actually votes in the elections despite huge advertising campaigns by CCP to encourage people to get involved. Most see it as the joke that it is, and nothing more than a public relations tool.

CCP would have been far better off canning the bad joke that the CSM is, and working with their community team (who incidentally are all now gone) to communicate with the playerbase.

I've been playing for over 6 years now, and I have yet to vote in the CSM. It's just like the high school prom's King and Queen. Only the most popular win, not who is actually good for the job.

Disgusting.

i think i have voted once or twice. its a joke really. can anyone name anything that the CSM did that was beneficial to the game? did they advance anything to make the game better for everyone involved?

It would seem logical that during this time of world wide economic troubles that measures would be put in place to conserve profit. I kind of feel that the use of teleconferencing would be able to suffice for much of the normal meetings with the CSM. While the actual role of CSM may or may not be more or less a publicity stunt... I feel that the idea should be preserved. It would be nice to see CCP move into more open and 2way talk with the CSM through video conferences on perhaps a monthly basis.
This new prerogative could also be supplemented with more regular video blogs.
I personally feel that the community would respond much better with some sort of monthly update from both CCP and CSM in a vlog from... which frankly vloging doesnt take that much time, so I don't see it being a massive time issue.

We talk to CCP on a daily basis, not monthly or weekly.

So there is actually no need for the jaunts to Iceland?

And yet, even with so many talks, you were unable to effectively communicate the feelings of the community to CCP, costing 120 people their jobs.

Well done. Bravo.

+1


Slade

+1 for confirming OP's concerns.