Originally by: Wakeland

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Originally by: Mirage Excelsior

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I pay to play Eve Online. I dont pay for Eve Online to support development of Generic Console FPS, or Generic Twilight Cash-in. I pay for Eve Online, to be a part of Eve Online, to play Eve Online and watch Eve Online grow.

Perhaps CCP are confused? Since aquiring WW, it would seem that they have forgotten they are a development company, not a publisher. Perhaps seeing EA's crack vault made them envious? Maybe you have become/want to become a publisher like EA.

One glaring issue there though, EA has swallowed so many developers, owns so many IPs that people mindlessly rebuy with a higher number each year, that they can literally print their own money, you CCP, can not.

Never bite the hand that feeds you. See us here? All these people Angry/Sad/Happy/Indifferent? We are that hand, and rather foolishly you are trying to draw our left as well as our right to chew the fingers off of both.

Management should ask, what will Dust be without Eve? What will make it unique, or worth buying (already lost half your market with the PS3 exclusive) over the next CoD brainwash? Nothing. We may be your "Golden Goose" as some careless employee put it, but this goose is already losing its feathers.

You dont really have many options here.

1 - Return to roots, make Eve great, focus.
2 - Continue as you are, risk it all.
3 - Seek outside investment, or a publisher for other projects.

The day that you as a company CCP, forget that you need us, more than we need you or Eve, is the day you no longer exist as one, and all your dreams of fancy new projects will vanish along with it.

I know in the grand scheme of things, I am but a single customer, as are others who have stated their intention to unsub, or those who have done already, as and such at the end of the day I, and they, are little more than statistics to the suits that now seem to call the shots. One person though is all it takes to change the world. History is full of such individuals. I make no claim to be one of them, or capable of such action.

However, in this age of the internet, the most powerful tool for communication thus far in human history, word of mouth can do more good, or more harm that at any other point in time, more than any advertising or publicity drive can accomplish.

Much larger companies than CCP have fallen for the mistake of viewing the customer as little more than a cash cow, you cant milk the cow if you arent providing the grass it needs, and I personally would hate to see CCP end this way.

TL;DR - Ramble and +1 for sort your **** out CCP and fast.

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Seriously. Reverse this bullsh*t and focus on the only thing you ever had going for you: A game about spaceships in space. You guys have no idea the damage you've just caused. I truly believe a CCP blog needs to be posted that says "We're seriously sorry, from here on out we're going to do our best to make the best spaceship game possible, and not pull bullsh*t like this ever again. MT's will extend as far as cutesy paint jobs or avatar stuff and it will be priced reasonably. We will bring back features that attracted players to this game years ago, instead of spewing out incomplete hunks of sh*t with the hope of cashing in."

For the life of me I cannot understand how this was not your objective in the first place.

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