Heinrich Jagerblitzen
D3LTA FORC3
Inver Brass
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Posted - 2013.07.24 23:00:00 -
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Killar-12 wrote:Absolute Idiom II wrote:Thanks for your candidness guys, I appreciate the work and effort that you are putting in. After chatting to you I'm a lot more convinced that you are doing and saying the right things, but CCP is not ready/able to actually yet fully embrace either you, the community or the communication changes required.
Worryingly, Dust is not able to survive a Jita Protest level event which lead to the sea change for EVE between CCP and CSM.
I'm be interested to know how we as a whole can support your efforts - by bringing the numbers/loud voices/intelligent scrutiny/pitchfork where they can be leveraged the most.
Finally, I really got a feel that you are all intelligent, thoughtful, balanced people who have a passion for the game and want it to succeed. Congrats on making it to CPM and continue the great work. They can't survive an event like that, but it still is a card the community has in it's deck that we could threaten to use.
It's a useless one, tbh. First of all, the Jita protest incident has been propagandized down into a "throw riot, get what we want" meme that isn't even reflective of the full story to begin with - and there's far MORE historical examples of riots that have backfired rather than gotten real results.
The bottom line is that CCP isn't stonewalling the CPM - there's just no hard wall to place a lever against. The truth of the matter is that we've seen steady progress since we began this experiment, we're just also being frank about the fact we haven't reached our final destination yet.
Rioting to a CCP that is in a state of self-reflective flux to begin with and who is showing real signs of change and opening up to the community (however slowly) isn't going to accomplish a damn thing except make us all look childish and impatient.
The solution here is to steadily keep pressure on upper management about the communication issue in our regular meetings and continue to brainstorm and problem solve ways we can assist them with the development process. We're getting there guys - if you walked away from the AMA feeling like the situation is hopeless than we didn't do our best to accurately reflect the situation.
TL,DR: You don't go to war with CCP when the community and CCP are pursuing the same goals currently, in tandem. You go to war when CCP is burying its head in the sand - and that's not what we're seeing either. We'll continue to be honest about the things that still need to happen - but dropping a bomb on CCP when they're in the middle of trying to put a better foot forward won't accomplish a damn thing, It'll only setback progress further. |