CPM has no say on who CCP hires or fires.

:P Personally, I don't want more staff on team Kong, I just want to see a lot of team Kong's responsibilities given their own teams :P

Kong has way to much stuff on their shoulder, and while they've done some really cool stuff... Some of that stuff is just clearly not their strong suit. (Balance being a fine example) Balancing efforts definitely need their own team, and that team needs to consist of people not currently on team Kong :P

Your anger is valid, but misplaced.

Like AI2 pointed out above... Team Kong is the team that is responsible for pretty much everything that occurs in battle. Weapon mechanics, Suits and movement speeds, controls & controller layouts, etc.

That's why content is coming out at a snail's pace. Because there is too much stuff to do and all of it is being lumped on like four dudes.


What you /should/ be calling for instead is the creation of a balance team who can relieve Team Kong of that particular burden and spend their time playing and communicating with the community so that they know what is "broken" and both sides are clear on their respective visions for each asset in the game and how/when it should be used/useful.


(Because CCP DOES have the ability to patch balance on an almost -daily- basis if they had the desire to do so. Without needing to submit any of it to Sony, or do a client side update via PSN. It just isn't done because there's nobody focusing on balance on a day-to-day basis, and team Kong only looks at it when their team is assigned to do so by the bigwigs who do release planning. )

Your anger is valid, but misplaced.

Like AI2 pointed out above... Team Kong is the team that is responsible for pretty much everything that occurs in battle. Weapon mechanics, Suits and movement speeds, controls & controller layouts, etc.

That's why content is coming out at a snail's pace. Because there is too much stuff to do and all of it is being lumped on like four dudes.


What you /should/ be calling for instead is the creation of a balance team who can relieve Team Kong of that particular burden and spend their time playing and communicating with the community so that they know what is "broken" and both sides are clear on their respective visions for each asset in the game and how/when it should be used/useful.


(Because CCP DOES have the ability to patch balance on an almost -daily- basis if they had the desire to do so. Without needing to submit any of it to Sony, or do a client side update via PSN. It just isn't done because there's nobody focusing on balance on a day-to-day basis, and team Kong only looks at it when their team is assigned to do so by the bigwigs who do release planning. )