I've walked away from far better games than anything Square has made.
There's only one company I have some loyalty to, and that's CCP Games.
Why? Because frankly this is a company that has failed bigger and harder than any other games developer ever, to the point where their mistakes are hilarious as long as you remember to keep your client stopped for a few days after any major update, just in case.
EVE once rolled out an update that deleted boot.ini, and another update was so poorly optimized it was putting graphics cards into thermal shutdown.
Why shouldn't designer digital jeans cost as much as real ones?
They're learning tho. If they ever need more dough all they need to do is release Hazard Control skins for Caldari and Goons will splurge another hundred million.
Dust is dead, Valkyrie is dead. The graphics card thing was "walking in stations", which they were going to adapt to make the World of Darkness MMO, but that too is dead and White Wolf has been sold back off.
EVE right now is worse and better than ever.
The game meta is essentially bifurcated. At the small group level, the game has never been better. Between abyssal deadspace, pochven, and various changes to lowsec and wormholes, if you can get a few doods together to do a thing, you'll have a great time.
But nullwar is in a bad spot. Beeitnam illustrated the problems, that once again it's a defender's game and that the N+1 problem is still very much alive.
But to answer your specific question about why I'm not harder on CCP...
It's mere existence is a tacit admission that business in western democracies is over-regulated, for otherwise these people would be out there 1099'ing real bux instead of space bux.
I've walked away from far better games than anything Square has made.
There's only one company I have some loyalty to, and that's CCP Games.
Why? Because frankly this is a company that has failed bigger and harder than any other games developer ever, to the point where their mistakes are hilarious as long as you remember to keep your client stopped for a few days after any major update, just in case.
EVE once rolled out an update that deleted boot.ini, and another update was so poorly optimized it was putting graphics cards into thermal shutdown.
Why shouldn't designer digital jeans cost as much as real ones?
They're learning tho. If they ever need more dough all they need to do is release Hazard Control skins for Caldari and Goons will splurge another hundred million.
In the bad old days, everyone rolled achura because they had the lowest possible charisma score of 3.
Dust is dead, Valkyrie is dead. The graphics card thing was "walking in stations", which they were going to adapt to make the World of Darkness MMO, but that too is dead and White Wolf has been sold back off.
EVE right now is worse and better than ever.
The game meta is essentially bifurcated. At the small group level, the game has never been better. Between abyssal deadspace, pochven, and various changes to lowsec and wormholes, if you can get a few doods together to do a thing, you'll have a great time.
But nullwar is in a bad spot. Beeitnam illustrated the problems, that once again it's a defender's game and that the N+1 problem is still very much alive.
But to answer your specific question about why I'm not harder on CCP...
It's because frankly this game and company have gone so far out there in terms of offending its own playerbase that normal reasoning no longer applies. Nobody plays EVE because they like EVE, they play EVE because they hate themselves. It's a game for people who already have their own shit in order so much that they look around for more self-flagelatory activities to pile onto their daily routine.
It's mere existence is a tacit admission that business in western democracies is over-regulated, for otherwise these people would be out there 1099'ing real bux instead of space bux.