Originally by: Liang Nuren

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The thing about it is that the quotes coming out of this are exactly in line with what's being said and done by CCP for the last little while... it has to be real?

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Originally by: Verone

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Please look at this, and then look at this.

Sums up the situation nicely, I think.

Put the pitchforks down, undock, and kill things.

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Originally by: Jade Constantine

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Originally by: Verone

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I look at the parts of Eve that I enjoy, and those that have an effect on what I enjoy. The rest is for other people to be concerned over.

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Here is the problem Verone.

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The time to fight for the game we love is not in six months time when these concepts have bedded down and CCP is feeling bold enough to start selling Noble Faction ammo and +9 implants. The time to fight is now. Because this newsletter embodies everything that many of us feared but didnÆt want to believe CCP were becoming capable of. It is a massive betrayal of the compact we shared as players and developers of this game and indicates that CCP is preparing to leap down a very dark and deep path of self-immolation in the months to come.

I donÆt want to see Eve Online die Verone. That sounds dramatic I know, but gameworlds die when the dreams and visions are extinguished and that can happen through a succession of bad ideas foisted on a community by people who really donÆt have much of a clue in business.

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Originally by: Jade Constantine

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The newsletter was more of a shock to my system than the CQ/noble store fiasco has been in truth. And that was out there in ccp land for a while (allegedly) I desperately hoped it was faked but it is looking increasinly likely it was not and it sells a brand of clueless that I find frankly staggering. How somebody can rise to such a senior position in an online game without possessing any apparent understanding of the community the game was based on boggles my mind.

HereÆs the reality Verone û CCP stand to lose more revenue in lost multi-account users via the mandatory/ un-optimized CQ than they gain from forcing people to view the 3d environment vanity display case. If there was a quick fix in the works shouldn't we have heard about it ? Or does the fact that this issue was raised often and loudly during SISI testing but entirely ignored tell you that this aspect is not going to be fixed.

We need to raise a storm to get CCP to backtrack on the removal of the mandatory CQ view and get a disembark from hanger view option to restore the eve client to former multi client/medium performance rig capabiliy. This is not a argument for mutely saying "lets wait and see." The irony is its for their good AND ours. Forcibly dumping (showing the door) to large sections of multi client using player base is commercial nonsense.

And on the Noble Store.

If they had set the Aurum store at a sensible level they would have made considerably more money from day one. I myself had prepped a billion isk worth of plexes to buy my character clothes and chances are would have spent the money happily were it possible to buy a whole outfit for that price. But the outrageous greed ôthe gorden gecko effectö meant that I took one look at the monocle and skirts and said screw that û let it rot. And IÆm pretty damned sure IÆm not the only one feeling this way.

This is indicative of bad business decision-making on the part of developers who have now shown they have no real idea what they are doing. What the hell is the CSM for if not to run some proposed numbers for aurum prices past them to sanity check the concept before going live with it? Even mittani is shaking his head and saying he had no clue this was the pricing level they were aiming at. It tells me that the "biz-devs" knew this was going to annoy the community immensely and no way the CSM would have told them it was a good idea. Firing the consultants and advisers is always a good way to get a well-crafted policy right?

Unless we as a community make a noise and protest this then these bad decision-makers will drag the Eve we know and love to an early grave and it will be a great shame and tragedy for us all.

That leaked internal newsletter gives us insight into the rot that has taken hold in the minds here. Question to us is whether we sit down and take it or get up and do something about it. I'm not a player to talk idly about quitting this game and truthfully I don't intend to - but I'm damned if I'm going to sit down and let my hobby go quietly into the night because some marketing numpty got his back of a beermat sums wrong to such disastrous impact.

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Originally by: Sorcsha Voren

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Originally by: Reed Tiburon

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This is the only MMO I have ever played.
How many of us subscribed because of Guiding Hand Social Club's infiltration of Ubiqua Seraph? How many of us read about the huge EBANK scam, or the stories of the Great War?

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I did. I shamelessly admit that the GHSC article is what made me want to play this game. But, I sure don't want to be part of what they have in mind, now.

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