Leither Yiltron
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Posted - 2013.06.10 17:51:00 -
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Leither Yiltron wrote:CCP Mintchip wrote:Absolutely, more updates and more information is on the horizon :) Cheer up buttercup!
CCP Mintchip // Twitter - @CCP_Mintchip
Dust 514 Community Rep You are legitimately not helping.
So now that I have a little more time, I'd like to expand on this. Mostly because I want to save everyone well-deserved grief and instead shift the grief back into the normal realm of the completely undeserved.
The Eve community doesn't have a very high opinion of you as a community advocate, Mintchip, but realistically I don't know that anyone really cares. The people at CCP decided to pay you money to do something, and far be it from people to tell you that you shouldn't do it. My personal exposure to you has been in the form of two 1 quarter segments of some of your Eve videos more than a year ago. I couldn't take the absurd perkiness nor the typical videos-for-the-masses condescension in the form of offensive numbers of jump cuts.
Here's a real heart-to-heart about the people with whom you're interacting and why the spin-laden perkiness is the best way to make yourself a non-entity to the players here.
Dust 514 is a niche game with concurrent player numbers averaging around 6k daily. Of the unique users who play the game, it's evident that a very small proportion of them participate on these forums. On top of that, many of the guys here on the forums have been playing Dust 514 for coming up to 14 months. Let's be honest: probably longer than you've even imagined getting a job working on Dust 514.
Release cycles with Dust have consistently been disappointments for a number of reasons. One of the most cited? A two steps forward, one step back philosophy.
The people here don't want to hear the empty platitudes that you're spouting simply so that you can go to your new boss at the end of the day and say "I did something." If that's what you want to do for the rest of your experience here on the Dust community team, go ahead. But all it's going to do is put people's backs up and relegate the public's perception of you here into the "ignore when you see the name" category. Pretending that everything's going great is condescending and moderately delusional. You have very few new faces here to please, and even if you did you'd be washed out by the current detritus strewn around the forums.
Want to make a real community impact? Go get a few more hours sunk into the game, and while you're doing that try communicating to the players here like they're actual people, rather than a bunch of zombies who will instantly perk up at a few empty promises. Nobody's asking you to be as glum as the typical bitter"vet" here, but acting like a member of a company rather than a YouTuber trying to get the random passerby to subscribe to your channel is the place to start. I guarantee that you will be insanely more effective at your job.
So to round it out, that's why I made my above post. It's great that you landed a job with some of the most insane people in video gaming at CCP. More forum communication from CCP? Always fantastic...when there's enough content in your communication to merit it being there. You're trying, and I appreciate that, but you are legitimately not helping.
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