Mishikaii
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Posted - 2010.11.28 01:45:00 -
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The removal of the learning skills is an incredibly good thing for EVE. As a newer player that has tried to get RL friends to play, I have seen a lot of them quit over having to spend a significant amount of time training "nothing" or being gimped.
We are all University students and smart enough to get the "good" route of playing, and I would argue, people the "learning skills keep morons away" crowd would be okay with. But they keep us away too.
Because if you arent an utter moron you realize sort of fast that there are better ways to spend your money than paying 20 dollars to station spin for month 1. And if you choose not to station spin for a significant portion of those bonus speed sp? well, then the learnings will take.. 5 MONTHS OF STATION SPINNING.
An absolutely ludicrous amount of time to pay a game to.. not play it.
Now, I am staying, since CCP decided to remove them. And a couple of the people that quit will try the game again. I see this as a good thing.
A lot of noise is made about how the "vets" should have an inordinate advantage forever (why exactly? and if they are so favored, why should anyone new ever play at all?) but it is terrible game design when one of those so called advantages is a 5 month speed buffer when people can not play the game at all.
A speed bump that CCP is more than correctly removing.
Looking at the people that want to keep them, they most seem to be said vets, complaining that one of the advantages they had over what they see as stupid people is gone. Or alternatively, that the game sucked for them and it should suck for others.
Both are pathetic arguments. The fact is that games neew growing playerbases to be around. And you can't get a growing playerbase by catering to the *aptly called* bitter vet crowd that want to be put in a pedestal forever, over all others. Fundamental notions of playability must be in place for new people to try the game, and more importantly from CCP's point of view, to stay.
Else you will have a sandbox where only 70 year olds who hate everything throw sand at passer by's, while they soak in their own pee and wonder why nobody will come and play with them. Until the day the sandbox is removed.
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