EVE General Discussion

so what, in your line of work how often do you do the ultra-showy stuff and how often the regular, day-by-day maintenance stuff?
your argument just feell like a baby that want to eat only chocolate, refusing te green.

So far I'm pretty pleased. Like many other people (I think), I'm waiting to see where we are six months out to see if there's a noticeable improvement in the game. But I have to say, thus far, I'm both pleasantly surpirsed and optimistic about the future.

No complaints at all about theschedule

Poasting in a stealth "EVE is dying" thread.

I really like the new style 'smaller releases'

My only concern would be if the patches from each release were keep rolling over and accumulating from small release to small release.

Even if one has no real interest in a particular small release, another one will be along shortly.

Long Story short.

I like one big gift instead of a bunch of little stuff.

I rather take a sports car than 5 cans of dr.pepper a month

Doesn't bother me either way.

Well, I just try to firmly keep in mind that what has been released so far under the new system would NOT be underwhelming in the old release schedule.... it would be non-existent. You'd be waiting several more months for things we already have.

As to the person asking if there were even going to be any more large releases, the answer would be yes, of course. There is only so much that can be done in an incremental fashion.

For example the upcoming sov rework. There will be several smaller steps made at first, and those will be tweaked a bit for usability before anything else happens... but eventually the main part of the new Sov system will have to be released at one go. You get to a point where too many other inter-related systems would be affected to consider NOT releasing the core of the change all at once.

The good part is that if the big bits aren't ready at a particular deadline, we only have to wait a few weeks for another release... instead of needing to wait 6 months for something that was 2 weeks behind schedule.

That's what is amusing to me.

CCP must have finally hired some decent PR/marketing people who have managed to convince people that "We're going to continue patching the game to make needed improvements" is actually some revolutionary change in game direction by calling them 'releases' and giving them special names.

The "release schedule" ie, the patch schedule, should be completely unrelated to actual expansions and significant changes to game story/play.

The release schedule should be unrelated to significant changes being made to the game.

Interesting...