Wraithbane wrote:Thats my take on their attitude as well. Its obvious which direction they are pushing the game. How thats going to work out in the mid to long term is any ones guess. But its not six years ago, and they don't really have an established player base to work with. CCP can get away with this attitude because they do have an established player base. But it wouldn't be the first(or last) time that Dev's Vision)tm) has iinterfered in a games success.
Yes, it's rather disappointing to me. Don't get me wrong- there's nothing bad about a PvP focused game, obviously there are many people who will enjoy it. But there are many who wanted something more- I've already seen several people declaring that it's time to find another game- a bit dramatic and premature, but increasingly becoming the only remaining option.
You're right that the this direction might be a problem in the long run, mainly because the resulting game lacks depth. Changes like this make PvP fun again for a little while, but eventually it becomes repetitive again.
Of course, maybe we've had our head in the clouds- we need to realize that the dev team may simply be too small to handle the kind of complexity we've been calling for- a small, stable population of happy PvPers may be exactly the goal they have in mind.
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