That's easy.
I'd like to see them continue to work hard on behalf of the players. There were only a handful of CSM7 members who did an incredible amount of hard work with CCP. Hans. Alekseyev. Trebor. Two Step. Elise. I'd like to see more members of CSM8 involved in the process, fewer of them no-shows.
I'd like to see CSM8 act more like CSM6, and less like CSM7 where sycophantic behaviour is concerned. Whenever CCP decides to write :words:, how about realizing that they are simply that, words, and that action must necessarily follow. It's fine to be optimistic, but be somewhat realistic on expectations.
I'd like to see less blind cheerleading:
JON LANDER I WANT YOU TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT OF SOMETHING!!!!!And more optimism, tempered with some reservation:
Good blog, Unifex. Now I'm more eager than ever to see the minutes.Optimism is cool. OPTIMISM!!!!! is not. Oh how I pine for the days when we had CSM leadership that didn't feel they were the public relations department for everything CCP had to say.
I'd like to see more of the CSM when they have something to say, and less when they don't. Having a CSM appear weekly on one of the many EVE podcasts is pointless. Unless a council member has something new and important to say, that isn't strangled by the NDA, then they really have nothing to say at all. As an example, immediately following the winter summit, none of the CSM had anything interesting to say. Next week, after the release of the summit minutes, the CSM is going to be chock full of things to say. I'd ask that CSM8 choose their public appearances wisely, preferably to coincide with events that they're allowed to talk about.
I look forward to CSM8, when we have either a Goon or a Test leading the ship. Someone to set the head firmly back on the shoulders. Someone who can be optimistic, who is willing to give some benefit of the doubt, but who also understands that they are dealing with CCP, a company who's track record with :words: is far better than their track record delivering on those :words:.
dude good posting
ReplyDeleteeven though you tell me to get in to fleets that are going back to egg and spend 15 minutes jumping for nothing
I sometimes wonder about ccps technical ability to improve this game. To me it seems as if there is a a serious bottleneck in terms of the staff available to change the game code. This recent expansion was well done and without a major snafu. For the most part, it adequately addressed the problems it was intended to fix. This boon is tempered by the fact that the issues the expansion did deal with seems rather small in comparison to the greater issues plaguing Eve. One wonders if the audaciousness of previous developer blogs will replaced by more pragmatic and less ostentatious statements.
im not editing this anymore
CCP has about 200 developers working on EVE. Valve has about 400 employees total.
ReplyDeleteCCP has the manpower, they've just had absolute crap development practices until very recently, and they're still settling in to the more robust practices they've adopted. It takes about two years for a team to really gel, and CCP has a decade's worth of half-finished and poorly-documented code to sort through, so we won't see the real fruits of their recent changes for a while. Keep that in mind as you read their :words:.
That said, they've gotten better at bringing customer feedback into the process through Features & Ideas, and they've gotten better at releases, so count me as optimistic (but not OPTIMISTIC!!!!1).