Originally by: Janus Nightmare

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You do realize that neither Incarna nor Dust is going to affect how you play Eve unless you choose to let it. Nobody has yet stated that you must get out of your pod, physically walk around your ship, inspect it, and repair it yourself. You will never be forced to go out, strip down to your boxers, and dance on a pole in order to attract crew members. Nor is there any reason for you to get involved with PI unless you're an industrialist that really wants to get involved with it.

You also do realize that both Incarna and Dust, especially Dust, opens up CCP to entirely new types of players who may never leave the station/planet and thus will only impact your game with changes to the market (inevitable regardless of Dust or Incarna) but will provide CCP with more money to hire more devs, some of whom will be assigned to fixing bugs within Eve itself.

Incarna and Dust are both potentially large sources of revenue for CCP. Revenue that is needed to hire more devs, QA, designers, etc to both fix and expand Eve itself. How many subscribers does Eve have? 350K? Half a million? It sounds like a lot until you consider the cost of maintaining and continuously expanding a game like Eve. Not many MMO's of any flavor can last for long on such a small number of subscribers, yet CCP does exceptionally well, even hiring more developers as we speak. If you want fixes, then you have to let CCP find the resources to develop those fixes, and both Dust and Incarna are the path to finding those resources.

I have to say, I'm astounded that, with the generally high level of intelligence required to play this game, people can't seem to see that both Dust and Incarna are a long-term solution to keeping Eve alive and kicking for many years to come. Were I an investor, I'd see both Incarna and Dust as extremely positive portents for the future of both Eve and CCP. It's so odd that very few people see this, considering how much of the game is based around its market economy.

I'm not being a fanboi defender here, just pointing out that there are considerations to be made that require looking at the long-term outcome of CCP's current development plan.

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