No, I will not unsub my accounts. I am happy to wait until FanFest to see what CCP brings to the table. Getting everyone raging at CCP before we even know what they are going to offer seems a bit ridiculous to be honest. I don’t like the price increase either, but I am willing to accept it if I am offered some great new content.
Get all the information and then make an informed decision. The price isn’t going up until we have seen what is being presented, so why make a rash decision now? There is a grace period between the end of FanFest and the price increase for everyone to discuss the new content and then decide how to react.
Wealthy Westerners seem to be giving the most salt over this $5 (or less) price hike. The “I’m too old for this ■■■■” demographic’s frothy-mouthed tantrums are in full swing right now. Amazing how everyone becomes an “the authorities will be hearing about this” activist over a Lincoln. Like the boomer abyssal runner who got ganked today, it’s simply difficult for me to feel any sort of pity for these people. It’s like…the world got this way because of them, and if watching them at least squirm over their video game costing slightly more is the only way to make them share in the misery, I’ll take it.
It’s okay. I’ll give CCP the money that they won’t. It’s worth it.
The world got this way because of ridiculous laws and sold-out politicians. Boomers are as much victims of this system as any other generation.
My dad is a boomer. I don’t blame him because I know even though he wanted to help change things for the better he just didn’t have any weight faced with the government machine.
Lots of people are mad at the way this world is turning out to be, me included, but I’d like to see the real people responsible for it get blamed, not the average joe.
Politicians generally tell us what they are going to do in their manifesto, then the “average Joe” votes them in. You are telling me that the “average Joe” is not to blame for putting them in to power and the politicians enacting what they said they would do? Sounds like a total abdication of responsibility to me.
The paradox of democracy arises due to non-voter source of power over them. Conflict of interest. Companies/entities are not people.
The concept of the CSM is an attempt to dress up the PR pig in the robes of democracy. End result, people hate the CSM (also in some fault due to their own actions). In some ways it is like the EU, the appearance of democracy, but in reality, the people are powerless in the inability to create or repeal laws, just rubberstamp, but can be overruled anyway.
CCP would just make you vote again and again until you give them the right result or they will just do it anyway under a different wording.
You may be right. I don’t know for certain.
But I know that most elections have a lot absenteeism, like 30 to 40% don’t even vote because they suspect it’s rigged or feel it doesn’t change anything.
Anyway, pointing the finger has never done anyone any good.
Nothing wrong with that, it’s their service, it’s not a co-operative. CSM is just a PR department dressed up in diplomatic robes with an election side show.
I like that we have some players who have short lines with CCP to give them more direct feedback and I like that some of those players communicate with others on the forums so that I can indirectly give CCP feedback on top of what I write here on the forum.
So what if that feedback goes through a “PR department dressed up in diplomatic robes with an election side show”?
It’s not, we don’t have any ownership of it, so by definition it is not a co-op.
Now, if it was, then that’s a whole different ball game where your vote actually matters.
I would prefer to give CCP feedback directly bypassing the CSM, in fact I won’t give any feedback if possible to the CSM at all. I let CCP do their thing, I decide whether I want to play it or not. If they wanted my feedback they would ask me.
CSM has already (now deleted posts in the CSM topic) stated they will bury ideas that they don’t like and to ignore the customer.
You can do so here on the forums, or on reddit. CCP does listen (sometimes).
It’s not necessary to go through the CSM, that’s just in addition to the regular feedback. And an important part of additional feedback, as the CSM have signed an NDA so that CCP can get feedback on topics that for example cannot be openly shared with players without upsetting the ingame market in advance any time they have an idea.
I’ve already wasted effort posting issue tickets on their github repositories. They’re dead end blackholes. Same with F12 bug reporting.
With all the data I have seen, the game is in the tailspin of decline phase. Peak Eve was a decade ago.
I would probably like to be playing WoD if they didn’t kill that off in favour of Eve which is in decline. I might even like to develop to an API if there was one on WoD too.
Any time you vote for an incumbent you might be perpetuating the mess. This isn’t always true, but it’s truth is directly proportional to how many terms the politician has had.
