Why people don’t like CCP
From what I’ve seen, the people who play a game usually don’t like the developers. Why? In the case of EVE Online, it’s quite simple.
CCP does not care what it’s paying customers think, want, or need. They follow their own plans with absolutely no regard for the people who pay their salaries by playing the game.
You don’t agree? Let’s look at Tyrannis. Planetary interaction great if you need the materials it produces, but means nothing to the majority of the players. The Scorpion looks better, but apart from that, no other clear changes were made. Supposedly lag was addressed, if “addressed” means that they barely did a thing.
Slightly more recently, the CSM, which is pretty widely regarded as a joke. The idea of the CSM was great, if they had any power over CCP, which they clearly do not. Now we have a group of people who CCP specifically chooses to ignore. Sorry if I don’t find this to be an improvement.
And lastly, perhaps the most insulting of all, Incarna. If we cared about walking around in a 3d avatar, we’d be playing WoW. No one cares about or wants the expansion, and yet CCP has prioritized it above everything else, going so far as to say they won’t be making any other improvements to EVE until Incarna is out (going so far as 12 – 18 months if my memory serves me correctly).
Here are a few little problems CCP should be fixing right now, before Incarna, in an expansion labeled “Sorry community, here’s what you wanted.”
- Fix the lag.
- Large fleet combat is close to impossible. Use CUDA/OpenCL, get more powerful servers, optimize your code, etc.
- Small fleet jumps (10 – 30 people jumping) cause clearly perceptible lag. That’s unacceptable.
- General lag like station docks/undocks, jumps, and loading my EVE mail shouldn’t take 10 seconds. Even 5 is pushing it.
- Fix alliance management
- Alliances are getting destroyed by one person. That should NOT be possible.
- Fix the POS management interface
- People aren’t sure what their POSes will shoot. That’s ridiculous.
- Fix SBU invulnerability
- You shouldn’t need a GM to tell people not to shoot something because it’s bugged.
- Give us new ships?
- Hey, a feature we actually want. Try to avoid unbalancing the entire game in the process though (*cough* Titans *cough*).
That’s just my personal list. There are about 50 other things, all important, that have been suggested by other EVE pilots. Maybe CCP will defrost one of these days and start listening…
