Lonnar
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Posted - 2013.02.16 22:28:00 -
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I might be wrong ... but I don't think you've dug into the EvE universe have you?
I don't play Eve Online. But DUST 514 gave me such a fascination for the New Eden universe that I have gone digging through the lore and events and features and what have you that EvE offers to it's playerbase. If you had done even a bit of digging ... you would have come across the Jita Uprising
For those who already know what I'm talking about, feel free to skip the next paragraph. For everyone else, read on cause this is rather important and proves that CCP listens to the players.
The Jita Riots was a player generated event that occurred after an expansion called Incarna was released. This update included a number of changes that some of the players had been asking for ... but the overall game experience had not improved as it should have. Plus some of the released fixes/content weren't even wanted. Players soon grew irritated at the progression of the game and the lack of attention CCP was giving to the major issues. In protest to this, a mob of roughly 1500+ players grouped up at a major marketplace in the Jita system and proceeded to bomb the everloving **** out of it. CCP caught wind of this and eventually came out with a new expansion called Crucible. This update brought everything back into line and more. I mean literally everything back into line. They tweaked everything from graphics to ship balancing and even brought back a feature called Engine Trails and introduced a new feature called Time Dialation (don't ask me how that works ... I don't understand it much.)
This is footage of the riots from the official EvE Radio while this is the trailer CCP made USING IN GAME FOOTAGE of the Crucible trailer which shows a number of the major fixes they brought on board with it.
There's a few things we need to understand about this series of events. First off EvE was an already established game that was constantly improving. The acts of a few thousand players cause the game to take a massive leap in the right direction. What we have here with DUST 514 however, is a game that ISN'T EVEN FULLY RELEASED YET. You bet your ass there's going to be bugs and you bet your ass there's going to be features missing that they've been promising us since the reveal of the game. Let the Dev team do their work with giving us everything they promised us.
If this was a fully released game, then yes I can understand perfectly the frustration of a large chunk of the community and how the current state of the game might even incite another riot. But it isn't, this is a beta, games in beta are games in testing. If you're not happy with being a part of the test crew of a game in development then don't play betas.
Something else you need to keep in mind that their office in Shanghai is smaller and thus has less manpower that the main office in Iceland. So don't expect the patches to come as quickly as they do with EvE.
TL;DR
It's a Beta, get over it, there are going to be bugs, and there are going to be fixes. Give it time and keep faith in the gaming company that gave us the awesomeness that is EvE Online. |
Lonnar
KILL-EM-QUICK
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.02.17 01:36:00 -
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S Park Finner wrote:
Regarding the Jita Riots...
I see their significance differently. We needed the Jita riots to get CCP's attention. Arguably, if they had been sensitive to the community's issues the riots would not have been necessary. There's an appropriate aphorism, 'Some people don't see the writing on the wall until their back is up against it."
Well ... isn't that what I implied in my reference to the Riots? In short I tried to say that CCP wasn't paying enough attention to the feedback from the players, the players started a riot, and then finally CCP got back on the ball and delivered in a really good way.
The point I was trying to make however by using the Riots was that we as a player community need to calm down a bit and actually give CCP a chance to deliver. The EvE players had a solid reason to instigate those Riots ... we have no such reason. We need to be patient, and supportive of the good stuff we already have here in our hands, and wait patiently for the other wave of good that's going to be hitting us sometime ... hopefully sooner than later. |