Aeon Amadi wrote:Nothing Certain wrote:Ripley Riley wrote:CPM doesn't have "power over CCP". They can give feedback and that can sometimes change CCP's mind. I guess you could say they have a limited influence over CCP.
But remember that CCP can opt to completely ignore CPM feedback and do what they want. The CPM might have had lukewarm reactions to this event and CCP said, "**** it, this event is easy to code and it's in time for Halloween so we're doing it."
Have you seen anything to suggest that the CPM voiced any opposition to this event or other events that encourage stomping? I haven't.
Heh... Jeez...
I mean, we -just- finished hitting the warbarge passive officer gear generation. I dunno about you but I consider that a major success considering the impact it's had on the game since conception. There will never be a time, this CPM or the next, where we will address all the problems in one fell swoop (at least, not without outright breaking the game).
So, my question is what would you like us to do, exactly..? Put yourself in our shoes and tell us what you would have said to CCP. How would you oppose the stomping in the event?
I'm not joining the CPM hate squad here, but some suggestions that could have been made to Ratatti:
Rather than 21 matches won -
40 matches joined and completed (to discourage players leaving matches)
Rather than 514 kills -
514 Kills and Assists (to help those who have to sit through stomps match after match unable to get the last hits on enemies and reward newer players who help to take down targets)
Again, not joining the mob's side, but if you had suggested something a little more friendly towards low SP players and non-stompers then you would be here saying that you tried rather than defending the fact that you didn't try by showing what you did to help the overall game. The warbarge change will eventually be a huge help once all of the officer gear becomes more rare again, but neither I nor most of the people I've seen post about it noticed any significant drop in Officer gear usage during this event due to those changes and this event is the only means many of the people who play this game will be able to get a respec due to not having the finances to buy one.
In the future maybe it might be a good idea to look at how an event might be percieved and voice an opinion on it, that's all I'm saying. Trying to be 100% constructive here and as non-trolly as I can. I know you guys have very busy lives outside of the game as well (you especially), but as a community representitive it might be good to try to think ahead about events as well as the in game changes.