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Massively Speaking Episode 185: Bree-to-play
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Reader Comments (7)
Posted: May 30th 2009 10:31AM Myria said
Not that that's an indictment of the event or anything, there just seems to be an odd disconnect between what the bulk of the Eve playerbase cares about and what CCP wants the playerbase to care about.
Used to see the same sort of thing in GW as well, sometimes it got rather ugly as Anet could be incredibly inept in handling conflicts between various elements within their playerbase. In the case of CCP the communication is far more mono-directional -- there's no equivalent of Gayle Gray, as far as I've been able to find -- and, oddly, that probably mitigates any potential damage some.
I'm starting to think it's a function of any game that starts out primarily PvP focused, inevitably discovers that PvPers are a noisy but small percentage of the overall potential playerbase, and ends up having to add or tweak PvE content to bring in enough subs to keep the servers running -- there's a reason L4s are -- and despite pirate whines begging for easy kills, will stay -- in highsec, just as there was a reason Nightfall had was far more PvE focused. Inevitably this changes the game, but, oddly, developers sometimes seem to be the last to see it.
Posted: May 30th 2009 2:14PM Firebreak said
I also don't think that I would call EVE pvpers a small but noisy percentage by classifying all of us together in a single group. Every pvper I know in EVE would love and actively wants the PVE in the game to be both better and more stimulating. So what I am saying is that there are not two camps one of pvpers and one of pvers I think that EVE could only be stronger by having both a good PVE and a good PVP game.
Posted: May 30th 2009 12:27PM Wensbane said
It's a pretty big deal for a lot of people.
Posted: May 30th 2009 12:54PM Bluefyre said
The PvP tournament is a big deal even to those folks not in waring alliances. The majority of the player base do care.
Posted: May 30th 2009 3:44PM Myria said
If I didn't know better I'd think you three were trying to make my case for me.
Posted: May 30th 2009 8:07PM (Unverified) said
1st, most people don't even vote in real elections that have real impact on their lives.
2nd, you obvious know that Wensbane quit eve because of what you said... oh wait, you don't.
3rd, your spin on the situation is so far off I don't evn know what to say.... the only one with a disconnect with reality here is you. Just about every Eve player with half a brain and isn't a macro alt that has played during one of the tournament periods would know about it, and from my own experience, just about everywhere you go in game during the tournament, it's all people talked about, whether in alliance or corp chat, or the local chats in the populated hubs.
Posted: May 31st 2009 11:42AM Firebreak said
If I am helping you make your point then obviously I misunderstood what your point was. I am sorry for that and I know you will be enjoying the tournament as much as I am going to be enjoying it.