Originally by: PC l0adletter

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Parlay proposal:

Permanently remove the NEX store. Blizzard sells 1 mount per year, gives the money to charity, and still only makes a couple million dollars off over 10 million users who pay 2 billion in annual subscriptions. Is all this worth 20 cents per user with 300k users? Alternatively, go F2P. Removing the store will remove temptation, and will prove to players that you're serious about preserving the integrity of gameplay, because we don't believe your promises of "only vanity" items.

Remove CQ. You're just not up to the technical challenge. Look at how terrible the avatars look compared to the char creator. And even with low polygon counts, no animations, 1/4 of the closets finished, and no interaction, you're melting people's graphics cards. This is a terrible failure.

Next expansion: EVE online: return of the spaceships. Rebalance every ship type, make POSes not suck, fix the industry UI, rebalance sov and moongoo, etc. This should be an all hands on deck expansion, like Apocrypha was. Dust and WOD aren't making you a cent; nobody should be working on them for six months. Got too many artists in Shanghai? Reskin the most popular ships -- you've done exactly two in as many years (maller, scorp).

July is free for everyone. Reparations. You're not doing this all because you're desperate for cash? That's one way to prove it.

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Originally by: COMEATMEBRO IMHERE

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F*UCKING PONY F*AGS KILL THOSE BRONYS
GIVE ME MONOCLES OR THIS PONY WILL DIE

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Originally by: Dierdra Vaal

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I feel sad that this has happened - and sad that I need to write this post (not just because it'll probably get buried under 9000 other posts). However, I hope this will be read because I am trying to make a reasonable argument here - not a raging flame post.

As a recurring member of the CSM, whose duty it is to represent the players (something I took very seriously), I went to CCP to discuss the issue of microtransactions. In fact, this topic was discussed several times on CSM summits (both in October and in December). We were assured that microtransactions would be vanity items only.

I was told, to my face, that CCP would not sell anything in their virtual goods store that would not be a vanity item (vanity items being useless fluff, not giving any benefits). Now I read in your newsletter that one of your main game designers is openly argueing to break this promise. I take that as a personal insult and a clear sign of disrespect towards the Eve community as a whole. Shame on you for even considering to break your word!

I'm still subscribed, the but moment CCP will offer anything other than vanity items for PLEX/AURUM/etc is the moment I will cancel my accounts. In going for the 'hobbyist gamer' (casual gamers, even though eve isn't that casual gamer friendly), you seem to have forgotten a large part of your player base. The part that has shaped Eve over the years: the hardcore gamers. We don't come here as a hobby to experience an ultimate sci-fi simulator. We pay a subscription for an all-access pass to this crazy dystopian universe, where what you do, what you become and what you achieve comes down only to your skills, dedication and your effort. And because of that, our actions are meaningful.

By extending the virtual goods sales beyond vanity items you directly attack one of the things that seperates Eve from all the other MMOs out there: that actions are meaningful. If I can just buy faction standing, what meaning is there in doing missions for faction standings? What meaning is there in finally achieving 6.0 standing (for POSs) or 9.0 standing (for COSMOS missions)? And from what I read, that's not even the end of it!

Some people might enjoy spending more money 'on their hobby' like it was golf (an analogy that is inherently flawed, which I'll explain below), but due to the dystopian, merciless nature of Eve you've bred a community that exists for a large part out of hardcore players. People who see Eve as a serious business proving ground - not as a lighthearted diversion. These are the people who have allowed you to get to where you are today. These are the people who stuck by you over the past 8 years - even if they do call themselves "bittervets". To turn your back on those people is at best poor form, and at worst commercial suicide. Because Star Wars Galaxies has shown you can't just trade in one group of customers for another.

Why golf is not the same as eve
Specifically, buying golfclubs isn't the same as buying items in Eve. The equivalent would be if you could pay $100 to get one swing/strike/whatever it's called removed from your record. Instead of making a hole in 5, you could pay $400 and get it listed as a hole in one! Suddenly, your golf stats won't depend on how good you are, but simply on how much money you're willing to spend. Try to suggest that to golfers and see how they like it.

In Eve, just flying a spaceship isn't all there is to the gameplay. The effort to GET that spaceship is part of the game. The fact that it isn't easy to obtain certain things, achieve certain things or do certain things is exactly what makes these things meaningful. Meaningful to me AND to others, who can see what I have achieved. And now some game designer would like to take that away? Bad move CCP.

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I told CCP to go screw themselves. They got arrested for public indecency and I was subsequently permabanned.

Originally by: Miilla

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The reason why CCP are not ANSWERING your questions now, and responded the way they did, by ignoring the issue is...

THEY ARE STILL EXECUTING ON THEIR TIME TABLE... their time table does not have disclosure on these issues at this time.

That is how CLOSED CCP management is, they do it their way, nothing interrupts their schedule, that was committed to.

THE MT EXECUTION TIMETABLE IS STILL IN EFFECT.

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