Originally by: Kayl Breinhar

---

Some words to ponder, from someone in your industry:

We've learned a thing or two with our experiences with the NGE and don't plan on repeating mistakes from the past and not listening to the players.

ùJohn Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment

What these changes tell me as a paying customer for nearly four years running and 0.0 resident is that you no longer wish for me, my alliance mates, my allies, or even my enemies to ever *bother* you ever again with our problems by making conquerable 0.0 so tedious and unrewarding to own or fight over that we pettily squabble over the limited tracts of NPC 0.0 until our eyes bleed from boredom. This is not the "grand sandbox" you've pitched not only to us but the world as well to lift EVE up from the dregs of WoW clones.

I see in these changes, and feel free to chuckle at this given my corporation, an attack on how I and both friend and foe alike conduct ourselves in this game, and a not-so-veiled punishment for all the "trouble" we've caused you and workload we've made you do to improve *our* game experience. Us, the vocal minority who choose not to stay in Empire and play WoW With Spaceships for our chosen kill-mission company or agency.

Yes, we are the minority in your game. But we also are the people who make the stories and headlines that keep EVE relevant. I simply ask that you don't forget that. You have a unique opportunity available to you when you return, not that I doubt you're going to ever see my message here on the 17th or 18th page, to prevent EVE from being SWG Part Deux, where you saw the consequences-to-be and held back, instead of surged forward thinking it would bring you new blood to wash away the whining and tiresome masses of old.

Your call, CCP.

---