Avallo Kantor
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Posted - 2015.10.13 05:53:00 -
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KEROSIINI-TERO wrote:I believe CCP got burned so bad because of the Rouge Wedding that they internally woved that they will never speak aloud any plans not 100% sure.
For their business (max profit of current Dust) I believe that is the best course of action. Especially considering the critical community.
It's not just a matter of the Rogue wedding but also events such as Incarna and everything that led up to the summer of rage, and the events that angered so many customers.
It ultimately boiled down to CCP being too busy about chasing the next "Jesus Features" that would be new and shiny and draw everyone in. They put a lot of effort into communicating their wild (awesome) ideas and drew many people into the game based on those ideas. (WiS, Jet fighters, etc) The problem was that in chasing these new features that they often did not fully implement or bug out their previous big ticket items (such as Incursions).
This came to a head in EVE with Incarna where the WiS came to end up with 1 / 4 of the Captain Quarters (the minmatar ironically enough) with the fully implemented New Eden Open (the Aurum shop) and the infamous $60 monocle. Not to mention the CQ literally meleted several computers into sludge.
Since that incident, and the Rogue Wedding one, CCP has had to do a lot of internal reorganization. That involved things such as the failure of their World of Darkness Project, the layoff of several employees and a general swapping of positions. Out of that we've seen a new face of CCP that is dedicated to working on tightening current features with tiericide, balance passes, and bug fixes that went on in both games for at least 6 months.
Now CCP is taking on a much more agile approach to trying to get things going forward that include a mixture of gradual changes (tiericide in EVE and various hotfixes in DUST that slowly change the entire balance in small increments), infrastructure improvements (SKINs, Brain in a Box, CREST, Powercores, etc) and larger changes that are part of a bigger picture. (New PoS, Fozzie SoV, revamp of PC, and the Warbarge)
The last category, if this new CCP is to believed is all building up to far more massive features. For EVE this is leading up to the eventual colonization of new systems by player efforts. For DUST the end goal is some sort of Flotilla System that will allow corporations to better exert meaningful control in New Eden, and a more meaningful and active PC scene.
All of this comes at the cost of CCP being unwilling to share any details unless they are 1) Asking for Player feedback, or 2) Ready to release in the coming week.
As a great example of this CCP idealogy in action take a look at the Hotfix. They asked for player feedback to the proposed changes, looked over them, then their next announcement was that it was coming out that SAME DAY. (As the release announcement, not the request for feedback)
"Mind Blown" - CCP Rattati
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