Shunned wrote on Apr 30
th, 2021 at 8:58pm:
"Trying to balance making sure the developers are incentivized; that you really treat your community well, but also that you are a good vehicle for investors because otherwise, you know, it's not going to work out."
https://youtu.be/AVMPmSdJz2A?t=183"... so I think that's a key thing to understand .. we think though that one of the things that one should be excited about around EG7 engaging with these companies is this philosophy that we also have one of our core drivers is also community ..."
https://youtu.be/AVMPmSdJz2A?t=280He goes on to say that he believes over time that they will deliver for those who play the games.
Then he talks about letting the existing developers run the game how they want and EG7 are just there to help them.
https://youtu.be/AVMPmSdJz2A?t=630That sets up a conflict in my mind because if he wants to "deliver" for us then SSG needs some staff rolled out the door.
"... so we engage with them when we think things aren't moving in the right direction or communities. Maybe their feedback, their negativity, their, you know, status ... those are things that we talk to the management team over there about."
https://youtu.be/AVMPmSdJz2A?t=666"... and I'd much rather tell you what's going on than sit here and make just a story that I think a lot of companies do to gamers."
https://youtu.be/AVMPmSdJz2A?t=697BUT .. a lot of these comments were in the context of H1Z1.
Towards the end he states that communication should be between the "developers and people around the game".
So there's this sort of promise of sticking their nose into the business of each developer company but also happy to sit back and let the business carry on.
I doubt this EG7 will make any impact on DDO. I assume DDO is turning a profit because it has survived this long and profit is king and gutting SSG in order to improve the game, realistically, would have too much of an impact on that profit.
I wonder if this for-the-people approach by the CEO is just a clever mask. Building up this little empire just for that end game sale.
I call BS. It's believable but in an acting kind of way.
I'm an old gamer and I love gaming and we built EG7 for gamers and we want to engage with gamers and ...... It's evangelistic. He talks of H1Z1 having no team behind it so it's the perfect platform for putting energy into. Once it's been reborn they can say,
look what we did! and gamers will feel like someone cares so they talk and promote throughout communities and the profit rises.