Advanced apologies for any rambling or grammatical shortcoming in this post; today's news makes for some raw emotions.
In my last blog post, I lamented the difficulties in communicating with CCP. Today's bleak news cuts to the why that composes the heart of the matter; when we players seek out to converse with CCP (that means two way dialogue, not pats on the back or circlejerks that go nowhere), the goal is to try to avoid these no win scenarios. We've strived and struggled for years to try to reach out and talk to CCP about where their course of actions will lead from a player perspective, and it's situations like this that we desperately wanted to avoid.
For everyone's sake, player and developer alike, we need to stop for a minute and talk to each other more. Nobody benefits from a standoff that results in people losing their livelihoods. To that end of improved communication, the removal of community management staff from North America is exceptionally mind boggling, to say nothing about the dozens upon dozens of others who are now out of work.
Please, managers of CCP, from the bottom of my heart, I beg you to pay heed to the good points that the community has had to offer over the years and continues to provide! If you only leave us with the power to vote with our wallets, everyone suffers - and nobody wins. There are very few of us who want anything less than to see EVE Online succeed. Success and mutual enjoyment are the heart and soul of the matter, and we really need to talk.
Yeah, it's confused me too. If CCP have come to realise one of their biggest failings has been their inability to understand and communicate with the community, why dismiss the very staff that are best positioned to resolve the issue. I can only assume it's a streamlining and there is something of the community team left.
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