You would have have to have been living under a rock lately to not see the changes to eve and the simpicity that is being implemented but one wonders is this a direct result of the popular child game wow and its recent sub loss. If WOW is losing subs faster than football players at penn state where are they going? Eve possibly? Do you think refugees from other mmos will impact eve and how long will they stay and to what extent will CCP modify eve to retain these refugees?

You would have to have been living under a rock lately to not see the changes to eve and the simpicity that is being implemented but one wonders is this a direct result of the popular child game wow and its recent sub loss. If WOW is losing subs faster than football players at penn state where are they going? Eve possibly? Do you think refugees from other mmos will impact eve and how long will they stay and to what extent will CCP modify eve to retain these refugees?

I don't believe CCP is trying to dumb down the game they are just trying to lessen the initial learning curve that most people run into and run away from almost immediately.

There also fixing the crappy balance issues and hopefully a lot of the faulty designs we have had to live with for years.

While the first part is a goal, and not really a bad one. The second parts requires reworking the code. I'm sure there is some nasty stuff in there if you get down to it. Making it easier to make changes later on will make it faster to apply updates and add new things and edit/balance existing ones.

You would have to have been living under a rock lately to not see the changes to eve and the simpicity that is being implemented but one wonders is this a direct result of the popular child game wow and its recent sub loss. If WOW is losing subs faster than football players at penn state where are they going? Eve possibly? Do you think refugees from other mmos will impact eve and how long will they stay and to what extent will CCP modify eve to retain these refugees?

You would have to have been living under a rock lately to not see the changes to eve and the simpicity that is being implemented but one wonders is this a direct result of the popular child game wow and its recent sub loss. If WOW is losing subs faster than football players at penn state where are they going? Eve possibly? Do you think refugees from other mmos will impact eve and how long will they stay and to what extent will CCP modify eve to retain these refugees?

If CCP wanted millions of subs, all they had to do was remove non-consensual PvP. That's all it would take for EVE's population to jump up by an order of magnitude. See Ultima Online and Trammel.

I, for one, think it is imperative to EVEs continued success and the health of our community to keep the corporation role management from actually displaying a horizontal scrollbar or just show all the available roles in a readable format. People that are too stupid to understand that data is hidden from them, or too lazy to look everywhere they cannot look for data that might potentially be there but probably isn't, don't deserve to be informed.

In case you don't know me, which you probably don't, and thus cannot infer implied meaning from my text: This is obvious sarcasm.

I, for one, think it is imperative to EVEs continued success and the health of our community to keep the corporation role management from actually displaying a horizontal scrollbar or just show all the available roles in a readable format. People that are too stupid to understand that data is hidden from them, or too lazy to look everywhere they cannot look for data that might potentially be there but probably isn't, don't deserve to be informed.

In case you don't know me, which you probably don't, and thus cannot infer implied meaning from my text: This is obvious sarcasm.

Yes it's puzzling that CCP don't want EVE to emulate the runaway success story that is UO.

Whatcha talkin' 'bout?

You would have to have been living under a rock lately to not see the changes to eve and the simpicity that is being implemented but one wonders is this a direct result of the popular child game wow and its recent sub loss. If WOW is losing subs faster than football players at penn state where are they going? Eve possibly? Do you think refugees from other mmos will impact eve and how long will they stay and to what extent will CCP modify eve to retain these refugees?

You're forgetting the important part where EQ came along and was much better at being what UO tried to be with the schism.

UO did enjoy a net growth after the schism. Primarly due to an influx of what we now call carebears.
UO lost that growth once EQ hit the shelves.
UO had already lost a lot of their veteran followers due to the schism.
UO died as a result of changing its design paradigm and thus attempting to compete with other games on their home turf. Of course EQ wasn't when the schism happened so you cannot really blame anybody.

But I believe that's what Malcanis is referring to.

You're forgetting the important part where EQ came along and was much better at being what UO tried to be with the schism.

UO did enjoy a net growth after the schism. Primarly due to an influx of what we now call carebears.
UO lost that growth once EQ hit the shelves.
UO had already lost a lot of their veteran followers due to the schism.
UO died as a result of changing its design paradigm and thus attempting to compete with other games on their home turf. Of course EQ wasn't when the schism happened so you cannot really blame anybody.

But I believe that's what Malcanis is referring to.