Comments on: CCP fire EVE community team (and WoD devs) to focus on … EVE

By: The Secret World: Fighting The Previous War | Vicarious Existence

The Secret World: Fighting The Previous War | Vicarious Existence — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 06:11:44 +0000

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By: Aufero

Aufero — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:08:45 +0000

This is starting to look less like a step in the right direction and more like a drunken step off a curb into traffic.

By: Bronte

Bronte — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:24:52 +0000

I missed the part about the community team members… that is really, really odd. CCP, please don’t turn into Cryptic!

By: Dwism

Dwism — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:50:10 +0000

Seems to me like they banked too much on DUST and the last patch.
All I see is them dropping the only game on the market that made me want to try out their games.

By: Stabs

Stabs — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:52:31 +0000

I’m afraid it reminds me very much of financial libraries. If a bank does badly they sack their librarians. Although we could demonstrate we generated revenue by performing essential research faster and better than our more expensive banker colleagues we were generally first for the chop.

When businesses contract they shed support staff.

By: Redbeard

Redbeard — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:31:12 +0000

Sounds like somebody is getting CCP ready to sell…

By: spinks

spinks — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:22:00 +0000

I guess I just assumed that if they were really focussing on EVE, they wouldn’t have sacked anyone from that team.

By: Stabs

Stabs — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:18:26 +0000

The crucial weakness of this summer’s patch was that there was nothing in it for Flying in Space, what Eve players think of as Eve. We got a reskin on a ship and of ship turrets, just art. We got a very limited version of walking in stations which most players turned off as soon as possible because it wasn’t very nice and it has a cpu hog. So I think they’ve seen it as imperative that they’re able to produce stuff, concrete gameplay additions.

Which leads to Who do you sack? If it’s not designers it’s likely to be community reps. There’s a logic to it although a very disappointing one.

But yes there’s also a certain element of sacking firefighters because the fire’s gotten big.

I think what annoys me is that they have had more than enough profit from this game to have run it without doing this. They just got too ambitious. Now if DUST bombs they could be in real trouble.