Live Events Discussion

No, you picked it because it was the only post that contained criticism which in no way implied ****-poor reasoning on CCP's part. You did nothing, NOTHING well regarding this event.

The time frame ostracised most players with a life, the event info was poorly distributed over too many platforms, the in-game event organisers were quite confused about the intended goal of the event (showcasing features or building lore, which are the ONLY two VALID reasons to organize events players can't organize themselves), and the fact you ingnore any negative criticism that doesn't come from the Null-Bloc-Elected CSM proves that your PR department has absolutely no clue how to do their job shot of keeping the players from blowing their last gasket and cancelling their subscription.

At the very least, stop lying to us and have the decency to return to the uninvolved WAI broken beatures loot-spew supporting version of CCP we're used to dealing with instead of implying you're actually trying to find out what went wrong when the list most definitely can't be handled within the RAM of your reinforced server nodes you never seem to deploy.

Instead of being focused on those who choose to 'rage post' (which actually indicates there's still some interest in EVE left), you might instead consider those that will silently 'rage quit', never attend another Live event and almost certainly never venture into low or null-sec again. Be happy that players are still interacting on some level; but don't be surprised if the magnitude of this fiasco takes weeks or months to be fully realized.

I think you radically overestimate how much people are angry and underestimate how many "ragequitters" will probably be at the next event. And to be frank, the type of people that will rage and huff in hisec should never even have gone to null in the first place!

I agree to a certain degree with you. Thank you for giving rational feedback tho.
Still all that rage is right in many ways and even as a '06 player and quite a big supporter of CCP i can not talk this event any better than what it actually was: bad.

Live events get quite a lot of numbers, CCP could consider doing several smaller events to introduce smaller content. If many thousands of players are coming to an event, CCP should be brave enough and add the big ******* key to it. Wether it's a crashed Titan that remains, or a burned wreck of a major caldari station. Any eve player can handle any loss when there was enough means to it.

For the sake of it, at least permanently put lots of wrecks at those gates?

Well first of all, did the rageposting and quitting actually win you anything?

Second, as I am going nearly insomniac saying, there at least 2 other threads on this event, both negative with CCP input.

In one thread the CCP post was claiming that the playerbase simply "misunderstood" the event and the other was on a relatively minor thread about the age of the NPC characters. So no, my original post in this thread still stands.

I think you are right to say that CCP is not obligated to provide anything to anyone; but if they are going to run an event then they should make sure that it dose not waste everyons time, and that is what i think most people are upset about, that they had their time wasted for no good reason.

I love the idea of Concord Excursions into null sec in pursuit of the lawless inhabitants and their structures. It is kinda like Incursions.

That wasn't it though.

You're barking at the wrong tree. I didn't do either; I provided my feedback as level-minded and detailed/informative as I could.

I did not say "it sucked" - I expressed exactly what was the problem in my opinion and what was handled in an unacceptable way. Just because you've done the same this does not entitle you to judge or define another's posts or behaviour - especially without reading them, as I would assume (and I'd be surprised if you did - going to find my posts through the threadnought is gonna be a nightmare).
There's pretty much a consensus here - excepting you, and maybe one or two others - that the event was a total failure and that it will have a backlash. Even the nullseccers (those who are not trolling) are basically on the same line.
Hell, THE MITTANI claimed the points we made in the threadnought were valid. Jester's Trek says the same.

But CCP commented your post first. ONE person against the entire community.
Reverse the situation. What would you have tought? And even if they made up for this by commenting the other thread - put yourself in our shoes. What would YOU have thought?
I don't hold that against them and frankly it isn't of any concern to me what post they comment - but can you really say others have no right to be annoyed by this?



The fact they answered does not conclude the argument. They answered saying "hey thanks, sorry you got it wrong." No point has been addressed and certainly no post has been singled out like yours did, despite some being extremely detailed and thoughtful.
There's outrage mounting. People are angry. I'm getting angry too, and I'm not usually one to get angry easily - I've even posted on another thread that we don't need to make a capital offense of this whole mess ;) At this point, >24 hours have passed and we haven't had as much as a "sorry for the mishap, we'll explain eventually".

What we had is a "thanks for the feedback, glad you enjoyed it, sorry if you didn't get it."

I'm glad you're happy. But I'm not, so just don't tell me I should be. It's just one more time waste for you, and for me.
I think an explanation is due, and the sooner the better.

It's a bit sad to see the reactions from the player base. I mean sure, from what I've read the event didn't quite go as anticipated and it seems that there was a lot of confusion and poor communications, but still, CCP were trying to do something fun and I'm sure they'll learn from their mistakes. It's not like they're obliged to do these events and I think that by sending constructive feedback rather than "**** you CCP you suck" we can encourage them to do better next time.