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[Proposal] War Dec suggestions

Author
Psichotic
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#21 - 2012-04-06 18:04:15 UTC
Forumgirl wrote:
This will allow aggressive (griefer) corps to focus attacks on productive corps... This sounds like eve.


Sounds like you have a limited vision of a MMORPG. This game has mining and trading and building because some people want to do that. If all of that is irrelevant to you then why don't you just play a game purely focused on fighting if that's all you're interested in? Why is it necessary - and why do you think you have the right - to try to make others play the way you want? Instead of forcing everyone to do at least some fighting - how would you like it if everyone was forced to do at least some mining?

Eve is permeated by this kind of attitude of intolerance to other people's gaming preferences. No wonder so many people quit this game. Who wants to be friends with the kind of people they meet here?

Once Dust starts making real money the cost and hassle of keeping up Eve won't be worth it unless more players join and stay. If you want to have a place to play in the future you'd better start thinking in terms of the viability of the game as a whole. In order for CCP to make more money on Dust than they do on Eve they need to sell about 100K copies/mo. Here are the sales figures from some popular console games:

1.52m - Halo 3: ODST / Xbox 360
443k - Wii Sports Resort / Wii
290k - Madden NFL 10 / Xbox 360
258k - Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story / DS
254k - The Beatles: Rock Band / Xbox 360
247k - Madden NFL 10 / PlayStation 3
236k - Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 / Xbox 360
213k - Batman: Arkham Asylum / PlayStation 3
211k - Guitar Hero 5 / Xbox 360
209k - The Beatles: Rock Band / Wii

Personally, I don't really care what people do with their time in Eve. The only thing I do feel strongly about it not letting anyone think they have the right to tell others what part of the game they should be playing. Stay in your own sandbox and play with the people who want to play with you.

Think of it this way: If people don't want to participate in your wardec, it probably means they don't like you. You'll have to change yourself - not the game - in order to fix that.
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