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Posted - 2010.12.29 17:29:00 -
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Originally by: Sadian I mean the ones that were supposed to be flocking to the game once learning skills were so disgracefully eliminated. Are all those new players still playing Wow? Are they on Christmas vacation? Were all the learning skill removal supporters lying/clueless about one of their base reasons for justifiying what was basically a gargantuan attribute increase as a reward for whining? I'm confused.
You see, removing learning skills weren't enough. There are still some butthurt whiners that prevent income of new players.
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Posted - 2010.12.29 17:52:00 -
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Originally by: Ranger 1 Possibly.
The main question is, how long will it take for the average EVE player that lobbied for removal of the learning skills without really thinking about it much to realize they were played by people that had ulterior motives.
It's never easy to recognize that you were used as someone elses tool is it...
I bet YOU've lost a freaking fortune on it. Now that tide of 'casuals' will overwhelm your beloved sandbox and you can no longer claim to be hardcore.
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Posted - 2010.12.29 18:12:00 -
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Originally by: Ranger 1
If a more intelligent mechanic than "boost everyones attributes" had been employed I'd have no issue with this at all.
Then again, if another mechanic that involved thinking or time had been implemented in some entertaining fashion, there would not have been nearly as much support and lobbying for the change.
Wonder why that is? Think about it a bit, I'm sure a few things will occur to you.
Anything beats "learning skills so you can learn skills". It might sound like a shoker, but games are actually supposed to be fun. Now when new players try to play EVE and the first thing they hear "first you need to train learning skills for a couple of month" that doesnt really make them excited as opposed to getting into action instantly like other games provide. Now you may shake your fist at those pesky 'casuals'. But think about this, what if EVE had 12mil subscribers, what could those money be used on.
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Posted - 2010.12.30 03:39:00 -
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Originally by: Jennifer Starling
EVE will never be the perfect game for everyone. There's too much inherent contradictions that are probably here to stay will keep on annoying people: - Suicide ganks being insured - Botters/Macros - Podding is losing your implants - Highsec wardecs - Blob Lag (this will probably never be fixed) - The fixed training speed - Subpar mission content - (new) remake your characters while bloodline options have changed dramatically - Imbalance between weapon systems - Scammers
And so on.
But at least the vast majority of the playerbase and CCP decided that learning skills were a bad idea and didn't add to the game (in spite of some people who loved them). Which can't be said about all of the abvovementioned mechanics, even though people will leave EVE because of them.
I agree with every point mentioned. Should we suffer because of these design flaws so that few masochists can claim that they are 'elite', 'hardcore' and 'underground'?
If there was another spaceship mmo with the quality of WOW I'd switch in a heartbeat and so would many others.
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