Wow....
And I don't mean the Keynote/ Blog thing from CCP-Rouge. I mean the grunting and morbidness of US, console players---we act like such defeatists. Are YOU the players I play alongside in this game?
All due courtesy to him, but CCP-Rouge's "speech" in this blog was spoken like a true vulnerable politician/CEO. He's fitted the speech with the corporation-presentation-to-public phrases that are customary in his field (and unfortunately sound blander than corporate persons perceive):
"It's been our pleasure, and will continue to be", or "Looking forward with new excitement", or "Our mission has always had three cardinal principles", are phrases you may hear in any CEO's presentation, and I THINK you read variations of these phrases in Rouge's statement. But it's a statement that is meant to state nothing, and is usually too timid to even want to intentionally IMPLY anything.
The only "inference" I get (and I get it more from CCP's behavior over the past two months, NOT much from this dev-blog entry), is that the company has only made a single internal decision about this Dust/Eve hurdle it's stuck on, doesn't know how far around the hurdle the decision will go (or maybe hasn't yet made all the detailed decisions that follow the single first decision they just made), and honestly don't want to TRY to talk 'suppositions' and 'maybes' to the public because that stuff just triggers "A Run on the Bank".
I don't blame any CEO or company for that. When the only real answer is "We're trying something new...we don't know yet if it will work--we have to continue pushing on both the new and old and see where it goes" , OMG you know you can't say that at your company's presentation/conference.
But you gotta say something... Public's drooling like fanatics... So you give the public what CCP Rouge gave: "Warm and Mushy, and Hope to See You All As Stage-2 Begins!".
...Face it, that's all the announcement really said. If you find something in there to make you feel sad or stabbed in the back, you're making up that ghost yourself.
When I read about opening a player account on Dust 514, I understood it was giving no promises, but it WAS on a CONDITION: The condition is that this hasn't ever been tried before, so players will have to put up with changes and updates, and we'll see.
Stay with us please, but remember CELESTA, we don't know JACK about whether this all will work...it's an experiment.
I made up my mind and said "okay" to that busride a year ago. It's been MORE than two years for some of you, and some of you STILL have yet to make up your mind to ride along on something unknown, or climb off the bus because it's too unpromising for you.
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