All you guys have to do is watch the fanfest presentations and you’ll get an idea of what they’re working on.
Once they’ve perfected the fw corruption mechanic to where they’re happy with it, it’ll be getting rolled out to null as a sov replacement. Might even start affecting other parts of empire.
When is that happening? No idea. But it’s clearly a major thing CCP is working on. But considering Vanguard is going to be a part of that process, you’ll probably get the nullsec systems in place before the Vanguard launch.
Also consider the other things that are relatively low hanging fruit that CCP has teased. The ship skinner. Killmark skins. We’ll probably get more iteration on things like homefronts and opportunities.
And of course… more ships.
I hope you stay on the CSM forever, if only to annoy the haters.
That’s a good point - there’s pretty much no interest in subscription FPS. I don’t know if CCP is planning that, but that’s about as smart as putting their game on a dead console. I can’t think of a single first-person shooter which is subscription based.
Game pass is a monthly subscription and it gives you access to lots of FPSes but i dont know how popular it is yet. I think in a few years it will be more popular than Steam. Subscriptions are making a come back, but they will provide access to more games than just 1. But lets see.
Last but not least imo the games that had subscription models and are percieved to be failing might not be because of the subscription model. It could also be that the game does not have talented maintainers. So of course people are going to cancel their subscriptions then.
Seriously. Whingers whinging that somebody else is doing something useful and productive, when they couldn’t.
I’m confident Mike and other CSM members are more than mature enough to ignore the carping of the peanut gallery. No, the CSM doesn’t get to do what we wish it would do, and CCP doesn’t listen to players or the CSM the way we wish they would listen… but if wishes were fishes we’d all cast nets.
Every member of the CSM isn’t required to support every game playstyle and represent every player. That would be ridiculous. The people who vote for them choose them to represent the facets of the game they espouse in their platform.
All the hair-splitting about representation and the type of entity the CSM is just looks like a bunch of jealous ‘sour grapes’ kvetching.
It should also be noted CCP hand picked a couple members, due to their experience, for the CSM as well. So maybe people should consider what experience those members have, and how it might relate to the upcoming expansions.
Pretty sure one of them was a fw person, so that could be related to the havoc expansion, to get feedback on their corruption mechanic, but it also might indicate they have more development plans in the works for fw. Which would make sense, since we know it needs to be workable for sov.
I’m sure the nullsec people will have their own opinions on what will or wont work, but CCP would still want someone with a plethora of fw experience to call out issues with systems before they’re developed if possible.
People simply don’t have the foresight to see that they’re being taken advantage of by the very same system they go out of their way to support.
This is the single-issue voter paradox in action, wherein people will sacrifice quite literally everything in order to score what they perceive to be a win on some minor point on which they’re so fixated. Like the people who vote for a political candidate because the candidate says they’ll put the members of their rival political party in jail. CCP understands this, and that’s why the CSM exists. They’re using the same divide-and-conquer approach that real-life politicians use to keep you in control. They’re scamming you into supporting them through a false sense of solidarity by pitting you against a rival community element. If you’re busy fighting us, then you’re not going to fight them, and that means that they get to milk you for microtransactions while you’re too preoccupied to even notice the industrial-grade cash extractors attached to your proverbial teats.
So go ahead, congratulate Mike for bribing his way to a council seat, or your favorite null-sec rep for literally paying for their seat with their own RMT profits, “if only to annoy the haters,” just so that you can “sock it to those griefers.” When those “griefers,” in fact, are the only ones who are fighting to create a system that would actually represent you. You’re right where CCP wants you. Maybe they’ll focus-group another round of gank nerfs with your precious council, and you’ll be so thankful that they’re making “positive changes” to the game that you’ll buy another pair of $800 jeans from their store.
