Originally by: Davich MacGregor

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They are working on rolling DUST out next year some time.

They are working on making EVE free to pay and yet profitable at the same time to coincide with free to play DUST roll out.

They are working on making their 'stuff' less hackable.

So, you see, they have their hands full working on all these things at the same time.

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Originally by: Gnulpie

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If you offer enough money to the shareholders, they will sell you their shares until you have enough to control the company. Same as with every other company.

Giving them directly some money just like this? I don't think that this will work. They will pocket your money and continue their usual way, nothing will change.

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Originally by: GM Zerat

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Edited by: GM Zerat on 16/06/2011 19:24:04
Of course the more money CCP has, the more it can invest in hardware, personnel and other resources. This would help Eve, Dust and WoD and any other gaming projects (you could probably specify that the money only go into Eve development if you wish). CCP is a company made by gamers, and it tries to invest as much money as it can back into the games it's making.

I'm not aware of any great need for donations and I'm not exactly sure how those are handled, but I'm sure it would be of help though. So if you have a few million lying around that you'd like to get rid of for a good cause, feel free to donate .

Use this page to get in contact with ccp: http://www.ccpgames.com/en/home.aspx

p.s. Don't trust Guard, he's a devious one he is.

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Originally by: Kazuo Ishiguro

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Originally by: northwesten

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Donate to CCP buy plex right?

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Yes, that would seem to be the best option. Bonus points if you undock with all the plex on board and self-destruct, just to make sure no-one can ever use them.

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Originally by: John'eh

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Edited by: John''eh on 17/06/2011 09:45:16
Strange that this be posted today, I was just wondering about this.

I plan on being a billionaire, and I was pondering today what I would do with my money to diversify my portfolio... and The idea came to me that I would simply fly to Iceland with a large briefcase full of cash and buy CCP.

But than the biz guy who lives in my head started wondering about the due diligence on such an investment, so I ran some numbers; They told me that CCP really doesn't use its full resources.

My main issue with "buying in" to ccp was that I feel, as an investor, a player, etc, that CCP has severe brain trust issues. I also worry that the lack of effort to hire and retain top technical Dev and QA people - aka people who can code, not just black box testers - speaks volumes about the lack of passion and dedication its employees have and I see this lack as short sightedness that a "real" software company would never make the mistake of. And I worry, as an investor, that management either doesn't have enough "skin in the game" to truly want to be successful or they simply suck at hiring the right people, and are great at not hiring the people they should.

All this translates into short sightedness that has killed many other large, successful companies. Given my personal experience I sort of expected the troubles Eve now has, but I think its a big failure on the part of the CEO and his team to be so non-effective in their positions that the issues they face now are even an issue when they could have been mitigated with proper planning long ago.

So yes, despite the fact that the publicly available data shows that if a player is active for 3 months they stay subbed - and that equates to a pretty solid/stable income stream - that does hurt the viability of CCP and Eve Online as an investment as it adds to the risk.

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Originally by: John'eh

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Originally by: Xenuria

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If you know so much about investing then tell me which works out best for me?


Buying CCP
Buying a controlling Interest
Donating

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Realistically? CCP is a private company, so you don't have the option of any of them except "donating". But since it is a for profit company an not a charity, you will get no tax benefit from doing so; And if you did anyway CCP doesnt have to listen to you or do as yu ask with the money.

Due to this my conclusion was that your best investment in this situation is to use the funds to seed your own company that competes directly with CCP, thereby making them start to worry about things like keeping customers happy. It would be the best way to troll them, improve eve, and also would give you the possibility of creating a title that you could make a return on your investment.

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