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What Game Devs Should Learn From EVE

Posted by Soulskill on from the watch-out-for-volcanoes dept.

An anonymous reader passes along this excerpt from Gamesradar about EVE Online's Council of Stellar Management (CSM), a group of elected player representatives that serve to facilitate communications between the developers and the community: "On the last day, the devs announced that after the earlier discussions about improving the CSM’s ability to effect change, the CSM was being raised to the status of its own department within CCP. This is revolutionary; in one swift move, the CSM went from what could be considered a glorified focus group to what CCP considers to be a 'stakeholder' in the company, given equal consideration with every other department in requesting development time for a project. That means the CSM — and the entire playerbase it represents — has as much influence on development projects as Marketing, Accounting, Publicity and all the other teams outside of the development team. This is, of course, the stated intention. But has any developer gone to such lengths for its fans?"

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  1. Re:It's been a long time coming by LinuxAndLube · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When I use Chrome on Windows, the first preview of the session takes ages to be displayed. Consecutive previews display quickly. Even more frustratingly, Chrome's back button does not really work with this site. Who's to blame?

  2. Got to love a game by Shivetya · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    where you character can improve their skills without you even playing.

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    1. Re:Got to love a game by Sulphur · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Skylab started as a game. Who knew?

    2. Re:Got to love a game by marsu_k · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I didn't, and I find it hard to believe that a space station started as a game.

  3. Re:It's been a long time coming by BarryJacobsen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why does it take 1 second on my cellphone to preview my post? Because processing power has little to no correlation with Internet responsiveness.

    So my cell phone using the wifi network here has better internet responsiveness than my desktop pc wired to the same network. Interesting.

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  4. Re:It's been a long time coming by Pikoro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did I mention I have 100Mb/s fiber? Nothing takes that long...

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  5. Re:Their thinking by Hadlock · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    people on this council are going to use their new power to further their own personal interests

     
    You must not get out of mom's basement much :) This is how the real world works as well. Bush Sr. was head of the CIA, became president, one of his sons became President as well, the other a govenor of Florida. McCain, before running for Senate and President, was in the Navy as an officer. McCain's father was an Admiral, and his father was an Admiral. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that McCain's son will at the very least be a captain of an aircraft carrier if he doesn't go into politics by then.
     
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  6. Re:Their thinking by nschubach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The thing that bothers me about Eve is that there are no "heroes." Everyone is just another cog in the corporations... it's real life without the retirement "reward."

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  7. Re:It's been a long time coming by hclewk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bandwidth often times has little to do with internet responsiveness. The lag isn't because a lot of data is being transferred, it because Slashdot's server is taking forever to respond to your request (for some reason).