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xynix
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Posted - 2011.06.24 06:30:00 -
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- Divide all NEX prices by factor 10 - make CQ optional "Enter Dock" or "Enter Quarters" - Give us a clear roadmap on whats to come on NEX
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xynix
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Posted - 2011.06.24 07:08:00 -
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Originally by: Death Severus
^^ This I can fully support +1 to you good sir
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xynix
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Posted - 2011.06.24 07:52:00 -
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Originally by: Ben Derindar What a ****ing disaster this is turning out to be.
I've been a continuous subscriber since 2004. I once cared enough about Eve to apply to ISD, and later I ran for CSM. I even supported CCP during the t20 scandal; the leak shouldn't have happened then and this leak shouldn't have happened now. But this time, the in-game ramifications of what we now know after the fact, is far greater than a mere handful of BPOs.
I don't give a crap about MT for vanity; I understand the need for aurum as a more granular currency option than PLEX itself, although I would never indulge in such purchases personally. What bothers me is the debate over expanding MT beyond the realm of vanity to items that are effectively spawned on demand.
This bothers me on two levels. Firstly, I am firmly and fundamentally against the idea that anyone can buy their way to victory in Eve. We know it happens already with RMT, but that doesn't give you an excuse to cave in and introduce an official version for yourself, only a mandate to work harder to stamp out the RMT that already exists.
But secondly and more importantly, you lied to us. CCP at first insisted there would never be microtransactions, then they were to be introduced for vanity items only. And now with the proposals to introduce a full-on pay-to-win scheme, the change of heart is almost complete. The very fact that you're even having such a discussion internally at all while publicly maintaining the opposite view, is a slap in the face to every single paying customer you have.
So with all due respect Pann, your apology doesn't mean ****. This is such a grievous betrayal of trust that only a complete retraction of the entire proposal by CCP next week will prevent my account from expiring a few weeks later.
/Ben
I fully agree
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xynix
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Posted - 2011.06.24 08:23:00 -
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Originally by: Jade Constantine Sure when you have been playing Eve as long as we have you learn to take the rough with the smooth but you do so with the general feeling that CCP developers understand and ôgetö what makes Eve great û and thatÆs the problem now. This internal newsletter (if real) shows that one of the leading developers does not ôget eveö does not care about eve, and simply sees eve as a cash cow to be milked ferociously to fund other projects. This is about keeping the golden goose of eve subscriptions (on a drip feed if necessary) while chasing and grubbing every little loose cent he can from the player base.
Let me give you a couple of examples of how this can and does (and has already) impacted our enjoyment of this game:
1. The Captains Quarters û itÆs not gameplay its a display cabinet for vanity items. And the price of this display cabinet for you and I is that multi-client performance in stations is now terrible û if you have a bad graphic card itÆs a jerk fest û if you have a decent graphics card itÆs heat-fest. I can run 3-4 clients with CQÆs turned on û I can run it smoothly û but do I want to? Hell no because my Gtx 580 sounds like its melting my motherboard now! So I need to turn off the CQÆs on multiple accounts and as a result have more limited functionality on those accounts and an ugly wallpaper. No more station environment, no more clicking on my ship to open cargo hold, no more dragging ship to the hanger to board it. The delivery of the CQ vanity item display case has impacted my gameplay.
CCP could have made it optional and given us the option of keeping the old hanger view and added a ôdisembark shipö option to the UI but ôoh noö to do that would have meant we werenÆt being forced to look the vanity display case that marketing insisted must be front and centre if weÆre to even think about buying these ridiculously overpriced items from the Noble store.
2. If you read the newsletter youÆll see reference to saved fitting slots û and I donÆt know about you Verone but in JF weÆve run out of saved corp ship fittings. We want CCP to up the limit but is that really going to happen while the ôbiz-devsö talk honeyed words about how to squeeze extra income from players for such ôminor upgrades.ö? How long till we pay aurum for extra corp standing slots? For wardec options? For a usable corp management screen?
3. And who develops these vanity items? Yes thats right its Eve artists and developers whose salary we pay with our subscriptions. Given the choice wouldnÆt you rather have engine trails and flashy cyno effect for all players rather than a bunch of overpriced tat in the Aur store for a fleeced few?
Because that is precisely the compromise being made here -> CCP using our subs money to pay for vanity item production they want to sell back to us for greedy prices and it is something you SHOULD get mad about.
So hereÆs the thing.
The time to fight for the game we love is not in six months time when these concepts have bedded down and CCP is feeling bold enough to start selling Noble Faction ammo and +9 implants. The time to fight is now. Because this newsletter embodies everything that many of us feared but didnÆt want to believe CCP were becoming capable of. It is a massive betrayal of the compact we shared as players and developers of this game and indicates that CCP is preparing to leap down a very dark and deep path of self-immolation in the months to come.
I donÆt want to see Eve Online die Verone. That sounds dramatic I know, but gameworlds die when the dreams and visions are extinguished and that can happen through a succession of bad ideas foisted on a community by people who really donÆt have much of a clue in business.
QFT
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xynix
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Posted - 2011.06.24 12:22:00 -
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CCP will NOT change AUR or the prices. And if your expecting any other response then your wrong.The only thing CCP is contemplating right now as we rage is how best to break it to the playerbase without to much collatoral damage (loosing subs)
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xynix
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Posted - 2011.06.24 12:32:00 -
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http://twitter.com/#!/CCP_Tardsauce
apparently the Devs have time to post on Twitter
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xynix
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Posted - 2011.06.24 18:18:00 -
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anyone been outside Jita lately, this movement is gaining a massive momentum
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xynix
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Posted - 2011.06.24 19:57:00 -
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The riots have spread all across New Eden. Jita, Amar, where will it end. I bet CCP is carefully wording their response for as much damage control as possible, but will they get away with it?
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xynix
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Posted - 2011.06.24 20:24:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Manifest
CCP Zulu will be finishing and publishing his dev blog in around an hour, but less. We will start a comment thread, as always.
Save us the crap. All it will be is just more lies and trying to play everything down.
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