Friday 24 June 2011

OOC - Was that the reaction? Rant, might want to skip this.

Beggining of rant


"I tried to be level headed, but I'm sorry, nothing is addressed on this blog:

MT for advantages? Yes or no?
The WiS is gorgeous? Sorry, I haven't been blown away by it, nor any of the latest expansions.
Smooth? Maybe you haven't noticed keys sticking again. Not being able to abort warps. Anoms not spawning rats... I don't call that smooth.
Hangar? Not addressed.
The bans? Maybe you are not aware of the "kill it with fire" meme. In my corp we usually kid with that, to the point of "kill it with therm/em", whatever. It has become part of the internet lingo...
The fact that you write a few words that amount to PR spin with no real concern for a situation that for the first time in all my years as a player united carebears, gankers, pirates, 0.0 vets in a "HELL NO!" position.

As for the prices - I've deliberately been avoiding that, but if you pull real life examples and use them as valid, maybe you need to look at real life goods. You have stuff there which is not particularly appealing that cost more than most of the clothes I wear (and I'm a lawyer who spends a bit on presentation. 

I'm sorry but this blog entry is insufficient and shows both lack of professionalism, concern and that you have lost touch with the player reality. As far as I'm concerned, "the tail does not wag the dog". Maybe you should think of actually answering question. History - past and present - has many pages written about politicians talking rubbish hoping the problem goes away... it doesn't.
This particular thing made it worse, it made me feel worse and disappointed me further, if that was possible.

Waiting for a real reaction and real answers.

TL:DR - this answers nothing, waiting for a real, concerned, reaction." - my comment on the forums

I'm sorry. Zulu's answer amounts to a bunch of nothing. We have all seen this kind of thing in politics (look at Greece or Portugal - my home country - at this time of crisis.
Is CCP truly expecting this to simply be deflected by using "non language"?

In my line of work this strategy is usually called (roughly translated) "jamming". Using non sequiturs to wear the other side and the person judging a given cause, down. It's what you use on a losing position to make you loose later instead of now. In legal terms it's sometimes the smart thing to do... here it just showed incompetence and clear lack of respect for everyone.

Granted, there were overeactions. But there were also level headed people voicing valid concerns, not just with the MT, but with the general direction the game is taking and the lack of novelty in EvE. We cannot be expected to wait ad eternum for new gorgeous things. We will not (I hope) sit idly by when someone treats us like moronic idiots.

I felt like an idiot.

I was hoping to see a well thought response, addressing serious issues, with at least a hint of solutions for real problems.

I did not. I saw someone who came off as having the attitude of "Do I really need to speak to the unwashed masses?! They do no understand the grand scheme of things!"

Well, I, for one, don't enjoy feeling like an idiot. I for one don't want this state of affairs. I will give CCP a chance to wake up and actually come up with a reaction. As far as I'm concerned this was not a reaction.

CCP get in touch with reality. Then speak.

OOC - My 5 cents - This is a rant, feel free to skip it

Beggining of rant.

I've been away from EVE for a while. I was slowly coming back and starting to have fun again and then this.

I consider myself a level headed person and I'm sincerely trying not to rage, but some things must be said.

First of all, if any of this money for stuff touches gameplay, I will leave. This is not an idle threat. It's not "emo rage quit" it's the fact that in eve everyone, no matter how incompetent, great, obnoxious or amazing, have clawed and waited their way to their station. For that both carebears, gankers, pirates, CEO's, deserve my respect.

CQ... I was waiting for that. I wanted that RPG element of walking around in stations. I am aware I'm a guinea pig for WoD and don't care. I actually played Vampire: the Masquerade and still love the pen and paper game, so I don't care about that part. What I care is the fact that CCP is constantly falling short. I haven't seen an expansion that blows me away in ages. I feel the game has been neglected, I feel the players aren't being listened to... and I fear this will not get better.

We need decent content. 
We need some respect and attention, other than lip service to "excellence". The mere mention of that word makes me sick.

I'm not saying CCP should catter to our every whim. I am, however, saying that a world like EVE (as any RPG Storyteller learns) is not shaped according to the creator's vision: it is a piece of collaboration art - players and creator compromise and shape the story because they have active roles in the way it unfolds. I feel that CCP lost track of that: they have one vision and they wish to enforce it. Thing is, to be absolutely honest, I don't think anyone knows what that vision is and they have never been forthcoming about it either.
A good sandbox RPG works when people cooperate, not when a bad gamemaster imposes what he thinks is a nice story to the players and right now I just feel the walls closing in on what I consider a nice sandbox.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions... and I don't even see much "good intention here".

End of rant.
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