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CCP Management Meetings

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Tisiphone Dira
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#121 - 2015-11-03 04:08:10 UTC
Meykud Khamsi wrote:


"Let's take a look at what new users do. They get suicide ganked. Then somebody scams them. Then they get flamed in local chat. But that's all allowable in-game mechanics!


Nobody noticed that the OP is wrong (or lying) here?

Ok so I suicide gank them. I'm with you so far. Then someone (my alt) scams them. Yup, sounds about right. Then they get flamed in local chat?

BURRRR, wrong.

I podded them so they are no longer in local chat, nice try though.

There once was a ganker named tisi

A stunningly beautiful missy

To gank a gross miner

There is nothing finer, cept when they get all pissy
Roberta Gastoni
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#122 - 2015-11-03 05:38:15 UTC
Meykud Khamsi wrote:
Wouldn't it be fun to sit in a management meeting at CCP? Do they actually sit and wonder why they can't get more players while running a game wherein scamming people is a legitimate in-game occupation?

"Let's take a look at what new users do. They get suicide ganked. Then somebody scams them. Then they get flamed in local chat. But that's all allowable in-game mechanics! Then the few who do hold on can either run missions or mine asteroids for weeks on end until they can afford a better ship at prices that are hyper-inflated by our selling PLEX that gets turned into ISK..., and that ship is promptly destroyed, and isn't covered by the highest insurance available... But that's all allowable in-game mechanics!"

"Well, if that's allowable in-game mechanics, why isn't our retention rate higher? Why wouldn't somebody pay us money for this experience?!"

Cheers,

Meykud

Ps: I look forward to this thread being locked, as CCP refuses to acknowledge that talking about the biggest problems with their game is "constructive."


First, if you get ganked while mining it's your fault, nobody told you to mine in a mackinaw in a system were CODE. or other similar groups are operating. It's your fault to have picked a costly ship that cannot survive a real ganking attempt, it's your fault to not have checked local, it's your fault to have not looked at the kill board on zkillboard or any other board of your preference.

About scamming CCP already nerfed this practice by making a bannable offense to forge API information for public use in game. Basically now a person has to convince you to give him your money, which is not very different from any "guild bank theft" you could have had in the past. Blizzard took the approach of banning people for scamming or "percived scamming", because scamming lead to unhappiness and a toxic community in return, however they got a toxic comunity anyway since most of it feels entitled to be protected, nurtured and babysitted by blizzard.

And lastly PLEX prices do not inflate the economy since they do not generate whealth by itself, selling or buying plex only move the money already present in the system, if the prices rise means only there's either too little of a good, or too much request, or too much money in the overall system, reducing the buying power of the money itself.