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Ripley Riley
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Posted - 2014.03.20 19:56:00 -
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Why does Dust 514 have events? Don't get me wrong, I love the SP I received from the 1 million clone event we just had and I will be murdering everyone I meet with my bolt pistol and magsec SMG for the sidearm event.
...but why? Is it because we lack core content like PvE and the player market? Is it because we aren't truly connected to the New Eden universe?
My theory? These events are CCP's attempt to create content for us. They know Dust should have PvE, player market, and hell, industry. It should have had the precursors to that things at launch. Perhaps the PvE would be rudimentary. Maybe the player market would be Dust <-> Dust only in the beginning. But these things should have been present in Uprising 1.0.
Pretend you are CCP. You launch Dust 514 missing major features. Players are becoming bored with three game modes. What do you do? You have to do something to stall them. "Everyone, see if you can kill each other 1 MILLION TIMES!", you scream with a nervous smile. The players' interest is renewed. "Uh... everyone kill each other with sidearms!" And so on...
The players are kept busy for a while and your retention improves... but for how long? How long can you keep playing patty-cake with us until you have to launch those missing features.
Interesting proof of concept: Eve Online doesn't have events. It doesn't NEED events. There are something like two (three?) dozens professions and mini-professions in Eve. Why would CCP make events for a game where you can make your own content and have agency in your own story?
He imposes order on the chaos of organic evolution...
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Ripley Riley
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Posted - 2014.03.20 20:20:00 -
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Cenex Langly wrote:I honestly believe it's to deter us from the problem at hand.
I had that same thought about the sidearm/commando event...
- Acknowledge HAV/AV imbalance is a problem
- Acknowledge your own development team will take 3+ months to solve the issue
- Schedule events to get players out of tanks and into dropsuits until a resolution can be deployed
- Make no public comment on the HAV/AV imbalance. In the MMO indsutry not talking to your players is actually a good way to make an issue disappear.
- Occasionally make vague promises of missing features to continue stalling and minimize player loss.
- Roll out intended fix
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Ripley Riley
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Posted - 2014.03.20 21:03:00 -
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Beld Errmon wrote:No obvious answer that should come to a person that isn't pants on head stupid, they give us events so they can get mass testing data, the rewards are what we get for helping them with it.
Sure, CCP uses the data gathered from events. I've said that many times before in a few dozen other threads.
But we have to be willing to accept the possibility that these events are damage control. They are CCP jingling keys at us, hoping it will maximize player retention.
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Ripley Riley
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Posted - 2014.03.20 23:28:00 -
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf wrote:[5:38:43 PM] Hans Jagerblitzen: "In the absence of the full infantry respec we asked for, the CPM pushed CCP to at least be as generous as possible with the SP alloted for the surrounding events."
From Skype conversation with Hans.
Interesting.
This tells us one of two things, both are disconcerting...
- CPM is ineffective at communicating our needs to CCP.
or...
- CCP ignores the CPM. CPM exists to placate the community and is mostly for show.
I don't think the former choice is likely, but I'm not naive, it could be possible.
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Ripley Riley
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Posted - 2014.03.20 23:32:00 -
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The Robot Devil wrote:I think that CCP would have made more people happy with a weapon refund but that is only because many of us can't handle the fact they don't do respecs or refunds and other FPSs have trained us to be able to do what we want pretty much whenever we want. I don't agree with respecs or refunds but I do think that the suit refund was the correct thing to do because they are finishing out "core" line-up.
Yes, but if CCP told us tomorrow that they are wiping our characters and equipment. All boosters are 50% more expensive. Patches will now be 6 months a part instead of 3 - 4.
The Robot Devil wrote:Well guys, we really needed a wipe. Let's be honest with ourselves, boosters were pretty cheap. More time between patches means more time to play 
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Ripley Riley
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Posted - 2014.03.21 00:34:00 -
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Beck Weathers wrote:Why have events? why hand out SP? To help players get into suits and weapons they enjoy faster, because they want us to have fun, also its always funner to have a reason to do something out of the norm.
Ah, but if fun was CCP's goal then infantry respecs would have been issued. Minimum they would have allowed the unlucky folks who wasted SP on the swarm launcher and plasma cannon to have their SP back.
Beck Weathers wrote:Is it to distract us from a bad game?
More to the point, I believe they are a distraction while they attempt to turn a bad game into a good one.
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