Posted - 2011.04.10 09:06:00 - [61]

 

Originally by: Guilliman R

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Hell yes. CCP is starting to look like EA before their image review. Raping everything they get their hands on for quick return.

I've got myself a deadline; I'll wait till summer (august) and if by then the most glaring issues aren't solved (hybrids, gallente, OP 1400's (seriously, arty abbadons!???), Stupid OP Supers that make all caps obsolete. Industry changes (UI..)) I'll just find a new game to play, or focus more on studying physics. I can only wait so long.

I really hate EA for ruining so many cool universes, now ccp is doing the same thing. It's the exact same path they're taking.

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A bit frightening how much this represents my own view, really.

Let's just hope that after the n-th time, they listen. Statistics/past experience suggest otherwise, but here's to that thing, hope.

Posted - 2011.04.10 09:36:00 - [63]

 

i kind of doubt it is related to the new share owners as posted above - afterall those were issued to fund dust514 (along with lots of money from eve ...) - meaning someone was already losing touch to the player base.
anyway, i support akitas proposal.

Posted - 2011.04.10 09:59:00 - [65]

 

Supported for the brief time CCP might listen before reverting back to stupid business logic that ignores common sense about this basic idea.

Posted - 2011.04.10 10:47:00 - [67]

 

Can't do anything but support this. Any feature, new or old, is pretty worthless if it isn't good enough or doesn't work properly. It also greatly decreases the players enjoyment of the game, makes them look for other things to do and diminshes their trust in CCP's capability to deliver on any future feature/iteration of an old feature.

You aren't developing games in a void. You can either deliver competative features and gameplay experiences or you're going to get stomped on by the competition. CCP's attitude of "It doesn't matter if it's crap now, we can iterate on it later" is damaging the game. They simply don't ever iterate or develop their features to full potential. They do some basic bug fixing and usability tweaks and call it a day and move on to develop the next half finished feature. You're left with a game where there are tons of things to do, but everything is a bit lackluster, unbalanced and under developed or has obvious content holes.

Lately there have been signs that all of this might be changing, but the new forum fiasco shows that it might have been just a reaction to the complaints and subscription losses of last year instead of an actual change in development philosphy and thinking in CCP leadership.

Posted - 2011.04.10 11:25:00 - [69]

 

Agreed, Also the new forums, Are they kidding, has issues with Firefox (eve gate does as a whole) And the new forums were very unsafe in the basic writing up of them and barley any smartphone capability? really?

Posted - 2011.04.10 11:27:00 - [71]

 

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Posted - 2011.04.10 11:35:00 - [73]

 

+1

Posted - 2011.04.10 11:48:00 - [75]

 

Akita T makes a post. Incoming threadnaught.

Posted - 2011.04.10 11:49:00 - [77]

 

Edited by: Akita T on 10/04/2011 11:50:49

Originally by: Ed Rush

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Originally by: Akita T

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http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7402/evesubscribers.jpg

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statistics can be fooled. for example, if they count in the accounts that have received some kind of free gametime. how many would have just clicked on a email to reactivate for free?
plus.. do they count in the trial accounts which playtime last 14days?

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That graph allegedly contains only paid-for active subs. Trial accounts and expired accounts not counted.

Originally by: Vaerah Vahrokha

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Here's my MS Paint approximation about the next months in EvE's subscriptions market, even if CCP changed their ways and approach to quality (players discontent inertia):

http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/2381/futuresubsu.jpg

As you can see the trend is exhausting (increasing volatility on the upper graph).
The yellow lines show the slope changes in the "123 zig zag", the cyan are some areas of support or resistance.
and getting more "whipsawing" which is another sign of trend exhaustion.

This trend will peak either at the current high or a next lower high (not drawn) then there will be a sharp drop down to the lower support.
It will break because we will be in summer (low subs period of the year) and an even sharper drop will happen.

After a rebounce (typical bottom W formation), IF CCP changed their ways, they will slowly begin rising up (red line).
If they stay as is, we'll see a further drop (blue line) to dynamic support and then who knows.

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I'm almost hoping you're not right...

Posted - 2011.04.10 11:59:00 - [79]

 

Originally by: Akita T

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Edited by: Akita T on 10/04/2011 11:50:49

Originally by: Ed Rush

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Originally by: Akita T

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Fancy graph

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blab ablablaa

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That graph allegedly contains only paid-for active subs. Trial accounts and expired accounts not counted.

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allegedly

:)

Posted - 2011.04.10 12:06:00 - [81]

 

I support the idea in OP. I don't have much else to say, other than that I was (unfortunately) correct about them forcing us out of our pods, which I don't like. Not at all.

Posted - 2011.04.10 12:17:00 - [83]

 

Edited by: CruxArc on 10/04/2011 12:19:11
Agree.

Posted - 2011.04.10 12:23:00 - [85]

 

I, too, am gay.

Posted - 2011.04.10 12:25:00 - [87]

 

Posted - 2011.04.10 12:33:00 - [89]

 

Supporting a great insight!