Celebro wrote:Syndic wrote: I care and think about the gaming experience of every single person in my corporation, and go out of my way to find ways to make the game entertaining and fun for them.
If you care enough about your players, you should provide them with targets on the long term, not short term, and make others all leave. If you care about your players you should care about the game too, if you still want it to be entertaining for your members.
You realize that the people who hold pvpers hostage with "let us win or we quit" will just quit regardless...right?
Someone who says "if we cant hold a beta terminal" or "if we cant continually win in pvp" then quits because of it will do so the second someone starts playing the game for real.
Pretend time only works if everyone always does it all the time, which is impossible. We saw this on new-hope when CONS made NSI quit the game because there were a few fights with minor losses. It wasn't their fault (cons), it was beta, they were playing as intended, but NSI assumed the agreement would mean a pve experience with EPI...
That's what this all boils down to. People expecting people create no risk pvp or low risk pvp in a sandbox game world build for high risk pvp. Eventually someones going to say "*** it" and start playing for real then all these players holding the game hostage with quitting will quit anyway.
When most of the players sit on the sidelines, refuse to pvp, and then say two corps who work well together are ruining the game by not letting them win...that my friend is a very sad state of affairs.
Also Celebro...what have you done to help this game grow? Our corps took in lots of new players, many are still active to this day. We weren't negative with them and the game, we provided content for them, and they still play. Why hasn't the other corps done this? What is so wrong with living on alpha until you are ready for pvp? Why must new players expect beta life two weeks into the game? Its all bullshit if you ask me.
What makes this all worse is many people shrug off the truth as propaganda. So the mindset never changes.
This game will grow naturally so long as new players can get into happy homes ASAP and have corp provided content. New players quit after soloing for a week or two, its boring. I cant shove every new guy into PHM, people are already mad enough at us I don't need to give them "large playerbase" ammo...other corps need growth more than we do right now. Step it up.
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