Eve Online is griefer porn. CCP is locked into the player base it's developed more or less and doesn't seem to have a lot of choice but try to get them to buy multiple accounts or squeeze them for more money.
I feel a bit bad for CCP because I think they're in a no win situation. They can't do nothing but at the same time everything they do now comes off like a 9 year old game doing what it should have done 5 years ago and I think it leaves people feeling underwhelmed.
Many of my friends have made similar comments. I personally also feel that even if they did do all this great stuff and got the game to where it should be now, that CCP would start acting smug and superior again as soon as they thought they had me hooked again.
I really do feel bad for them. I don't see a way they can remediate the game and their image effectively and I do see them trying.
This is where MMOs are a different kind of game, people have to trust you with their time. Once that trust is broken, I don't see away back. Then again CCP hasn't fit the mold in many ways so maybe this is something they can do. We'll see.
What an amazingly strange thing to say. He's trolling because he's completely fabricating details, much like you apparently. It has nothing to do with liking or disliking the game.
Your article is accusatory. As you've admitted, this is about what you sit around talking to your colleges and forum posters about. It has nothing to do with the article you claim to be reporting on.
Bioware absolutely is NOT addressing perceived inadequacies as you claim. That is a completely invented fact that you're injecting. What's worse is your trying to give the impression that Bioware acknowledges this as a fact and is addressing it, which again is completely fabricated.
Their company was purchased by a much large company and they're addressing the very honest question about how the effect the dynamic of the company and where creative control rests. Just because you had some side conversation with others is no reason to invent facts and report them as if they're true.
I'm sorry if you disagree but I believe that not only to be irresponsible but unethical.
You're right, the article isn't hard to get, the reasoning behind it is however.
Your statements about Bioware "perceived inadequacy" is a pretty pedestrian writers technique of accusing the subject of something under the guise of "some people say".
The source material you link addresses how Bioware and EA interact and clarifies any question of who the decision makers are. The interview isn't a "message for critical fans" about "perceived inadequacies", you are the one injecting that into the conversation and it's irresponsible.
I don't get this article at all. I don't think Bioware is perceived as inadequate at all by gamers at large. I do think there a set of bile ridden gamers who post on forums and sites like it's some kind of PvP Mini-Game but I don't see how that equates to "perceived inadequacies"?
Do what if Dragon Age 2 wasn't a great game? BW releases a lot of good games, they obviously have skill at the company and have produced some of the best titles in the industry. Just because not every idea of theirs is bliss on tap doesn't mean they're inadequate and I think it's irresponsible of the articles author to forward that perception.
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Feb 13th 2012 9:45AM (Massively)Many of my friends have made similar comments. I personally also feel that even if they did do all this great stuff and got the game to where it should be now, that CCP would start acting smug and superior again as soon as they thought they had me hooked again.
I really do feel bad for them. I don't see a way they can remediate the game and their image effectively and I do see them trying.
This is where MMOs are a different kind of game, people have to trust you with their time. Once that trust is broken, I don't see away back. Then again CCP hasn't fit the mold in many ways so maybe this is something they can do. We'll see.
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Oct 4th 2011 7:44AM (Massively)What an amazingly strange thing to say. He's trolling because he's completely fabricating details, much like you apparently. It has nothing to do with liking or disliking the game.
BioWare founders: We make the decisions, not EA
Oct 3rd 2011 7:48PM (Massively)Your article is accusatory. As you've admitted, this is about what you sit around talking to your colleges and forum posters about. It has nothing to do with the article you claim to be reporting on.
Bioware absolutely is NOT addressing perceived inadequacies as you claim. That is a completely invented fact that you're injecting. What's worse is your trying to give the impression that Bioware acknowledges this as a fact and is addressing it, which again is completely fabricated.
Their company was purchased by a much large company and they're addressing the very honest question about how the effect the dynamic of the company and where creative control rests. Just because you had some side conversation with others is no reason to invent facts and report them as if they're true.
I'm sorry if you disagree but I believe that not only to be irresponsible but unethical.
BioWare founders: We make the decisions, not EA
Oct 3rd 2011 4:15PM (Massively)You're right, the article isn't hard to get, the reasoning behind it is however.
Your statements about Bioware "perceived inadequacy" is a pretty pedestrian writers technique of accusing the subject of something under the guise of "some people say".
The source material you link addresses how Bioware and EA interact and clarifies any question of who the decision makers are. The interview isn't a "message for critical fans" about "perceived inadequacies", you are the one injecting that into the conversation and it's irresponsible.
BioWare founders: We make the decisions, not EA
Oct 3rd 2011 2:02PM (Massively)Do what if Dragon Age 2 wasn't a great game? BW releases a lot of good games, they obviously have skill at the company and have produced some of the best titles in the industry. Just because not every idea of theirs is bliss on tap doesn't mean they're inadequate and I think it's irresponsible of the articles author to forward that perception.