Originally by: Glyken Touchon

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Originally by: Joao Duarte

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1. The "CCP employer" expressing his "opinion" is a lead game designer.

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That has already removed visibility of faction standings so they can sell them.
That has already moved fittings server side and limited you to 50 so they can sell you more.

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Originally by: Grey Stormshadow

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HEY CCP HILMAR - I JUST FOUND THIS.
LOOKS LIKE THE TRUE CCP IS FILLED WITH ROTTEN APPLES AND TOTAL BS

I WONDER HOW MANY WILL AGREE WITH YOUR NEW VISION

Account expires in 0d 3h 23m 9s and counting
The another account reached termination point already.
Here are my tears - they are free - reel em in

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Originally by: Enaria Ferenic

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Originally by: C4LYP50

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This is most likely.

+1 internets to you sir. I'm very tempted to see this as the threadwinner.

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Even though I left my tinfoil hat at work last week I am saddened to say that this is probably true. The rage quitiing of the older players is EVE's Flight of the Earls , by getting rid of the older/game savy and resource richer players CCP opens the way for in-Gamne Advantage MT's.

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Originally by: Aineko Macx

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At this point I find the following question much more interesting: Why do we support a company whose main investor has known russian mafia connections (and worse)?

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Originally by: Constantinus Maximus

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Edited by: Constantinus Maximus on 26/06/2011 13:31:28

Originally by: Gil Warden

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Originally by: Constantinus Maximus

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http://google.com/

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Probably not the most informative link provided today. At least not out of the box.

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You are asking someone to make accusations against a guy who owns a whole country mate.

edit: posted a pic above

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"He will keep stakes in two other Icelandic companies, computer games firm CCP and data-centre operator Verne Holdings, as well as in Polish telephone company Play, but dividends or the gains from future sales will go to pay down debt."

Originally by: Constantinus Maximus

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Originally by: Wearfield

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Originally by: Kailithi

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THEY SET YOU UP! And you bought it hook, line and sinker.

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What page is that on?

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Originally by: Kithrus

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Originally by: Govinda Sertan

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The only way to get them to pay attention is to hurt their subscriber numbers.

So...tell your friends not to play, about the way CCP treats us and their game. Give bad reviews.

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-Hey Karl !
-Hey Jim !
-Do you know Eve Online ?
-Nope
-Well, let me tell you why you should not even try it...

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Originally by: Quantumality

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So who is organizing the betting on whether the next "dev blog" reply will be less or more insulting and condescending to the player base?

I'd like to put my isk on more...

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Originally by: Cheroth Morachi

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I'm going to say something crazy here:

IF CCP swears...on blood that only vanity items will be presented in the NEX store, at reasonable prices...

IF CCP promises to make a more concerted effort to work with the CSM and the player-base to prioritize what needs work within the game (I'm not saying that we dictate what CCP does; far from it. If they want to incorporate WiS, I'm all for it, but throw us Gallente who've been dealing with garbage hybrid turrets for 2 years a bone, or end the blob, or any number of other legitimate gripes that the players have had for years, yeah?)...

IF CCP spends as much time fostering one of the coolest communities in teh interwebs as they do in devising ways to make the game more profitable...

I'll buy a g0d**** virtual t-shirt.

OK?!?!?!!?

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Originally by: Dograzor

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My take is that any damage control that comes now, is too little, too late.

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Will MT move beyond non-vanity items?

Originally by: Nyssa Litari

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Dear CCP,

It is not that you made the NeX items unreasonably pricy, although you have. It is not that we merely dislike change. Some of us dislike it, some of us welcome it.

It is that your business plan, from everything we can see, intends to take away the gameplay central to Eve; the player-driven economy. You're planning on making players that have spent time training for manufacturing, researching blueprints to wring out research efficiencies compete with a deus ex credit card.

Someone else pointed out that many player corporations have standings aid as a service for new recruits. You have players themselves advancing the social mechanics of your game, as part of the gameplay. Do you really think it's a good idea to disrupt that?

When we join, we join for the shiny. I joined because I might someday get to fly a Nyx. I'll admit that. But I've stayed, (and paid for new accounts like this one), because it is the players that drive the lore. The epic battles people talk about in chat while mining are the battles that they or their friends participated in, or caused. All of the politics is real. The bad guys are that other group of players that threw a wardec your way.

What we're worried about is that you'll start by taking the little things away, like offering standings aid as a player corp service, and move on to bigger things. There will be people that are willing to pay real money for the I-win-mobile. If you think that you can boil a few hundred thousand frogs to reach out to the few thousand teenagers with dad's credit card you'll lose us too. Then you will have lost what makes the game worth playing.

You'll lose the experienced FCs that know how to run a fleet and can train noobs to be just as valuable as the pilot in the that T2 cruiser. You'll lose the alliances that police their own territory making the alliance mechanics work. You'll lose the smart players who have poured so much time, thought, and effort into the game. The only kinds of players you gain are the ones with short attention spans. The ones that have no patience. The ones that play a "title" and move on.

And what happens when that's your player base? You have to be forever adding "content" like WoW does. Here's the new dance of the month. I've come to hate the term "content" because it's come to be akin to "just give them more icons". I'm not looking for just "content", I'm looking for play.

Most of your players today are not kids. I'm in my late thirties. I work in the software field. Like most of your players, I'm not stupid. I am not just a revenue stream. I say these things not in an attempt to gain your respect. I say these things in the hopes that they make you think about the kinds of players you want inhabiting your universe.

I won't cancel my account yet. You haven't upended the sandbox yet. Like your CEO suggested, I'll watch what you do more than what you say. I played Star Wars Galaxies, I had a character that made weapons. I had a plan in the game to become the premier gunsmith in my little neighborhood. That was what I was going to play toward. Sony changed the game, I dropped my subscription because it wasn't fun anymore. Please don't do that to us.

Regards,

Nyssa

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