Trvaeler
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Posted - 2010.01.17 16:32:00 -
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Put it this way; The vast majority of players enjoy Eve, not due to the non-consensual PVP, but do to the activities they can do in empire (in safety). Consensual PVP is also enjoyed by most, as is 'flying internet spaceships' ;)
For the less intelligent: Eve's subscriber momentum, despite it's massive spending on marketing and new features is at best 'meh'. There are lots of new signups, but the majority of them don't stay on long.
Face it, most people like to carebear. The minority of people that like to destroy inferior, unarmed ships are in the minority. So much so in the minority that CCP would go bankrupt if only those people were subscribers.
The bulk of CCPs income, comes from carebears who don't want EVE to be 'less safe' than it is now. You like "harsh realities", well here it is; As time goes on, Eve will become a much 'safer' place and if CCP survives, I guarantee a few years down the road, high-sec will be 100% safe. It's called capitalism, where what the majority of people want, they get. The minority can take it and stfu or leave.
I personally don't have a problem with this. There should be an area where people can mine/run missions/trade/move around etc all day long in complete safety. If you want to take risk, then go down to lowsec/null and play around.
Let's stop the charade here; almost all the kills on a daily basis (ignoring null alliance wars here) are from experienced, smarter, better equipped players ganking (be it in high/low/null) dumber, less experienced and less equipped players (read: big strong ship killing weak inferior ship).
IE: The game is not fun for peeps too stupid/lazy to defend themselves (read: the majority of the player base).
Risk/Reward you say?? Where is the risk in ganking a solo hulk from a guy in a 1 man corp for instance? That's not risk/reward, that's taking advantage of the weak, with your only reward knowing you made a 13 year old cry in RL when the hulk he worked 6 months to get is popped.
When I fight a worthy adversary, it makes me feel good to win. Camping a gate with 10 of my fellow corp mates and killing that lone empty hauler coming through doesn't do it for me. (and the same goes for the vast majority of players)
It may be the minority that is active here in the forums, but the silent majority are the ones making it profitable for CCP.
That's why WOW is much much much, much much more profitable for Blizzard than Eve is for CCP. |