KrustyKrab
Immortalis Inc.
Shadow Cartel
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Posted - 2011.06.26 21:26:00 -
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This is only my personal opinion.
So after a few days of deafening silence, we get yet another placating, time-wasting, stalling tactic via a devblog. As others have pointed out, you have clarified NOTHING. Gold Ammo could be your little code for...whatever you want, so you can come back later and say 'well we never said ships or skillpoint enhancements, we said 'no gold ammo' so why is everyone upset again???'
I mean, we don't really know. Yet another horrible, vague, still seemingly smug reply to a community who has erupted into a nuclear fireball of fury is all I see. You didn't answer the BIG YELLOW QUESTION. You may think you have, but you smartly skirted the details leaving everyone hanging again. Again! I don't know who is mixing up the Cherry Stupid-Aid, but maybe a little more sure, and a little less stupid would make the drink a little less bitter as it slides down our throats.
At this point, I simply cannot respond to you (CCP) with anything but your own words: We are more interested in what you do than in what you say. So far you have done nothing except fan the flames even more.
I've taken a few days off from even logging into Eve. Seven accounts are unsubbed and/or idle waiting for the remaining play time to finish on them. A lot of others have unsubbed but they've missed the point and when we see 40,000+ active players, it simply proves, unfortunately, that CCP is correct in their observations over the years: Eve's player base is full of hot air and even flames, but it is a cold, non-burning flame. By logging in continually even after cancelling a subscription, it is merely a prelude to the reality that you, CCP, will continue to shoe-horn changes that the community absolutely is opposed to because you KNOW for a fact that thousands will threaten to quit, even thousands will go into the account mgmt page and cancel their subs, but soon enough they will click 'subscribe again' or add PLEX gametime to their accounts and pretend that their rear ends are only a little sore and a little bloody, instead of being a gaping wound. And we Eve players? We'll say things like "well, it only bled a little, and the pain is manageable if you sit on a donut cushion a while."
I was sad to see that nothing has changed other than hundreds, possibly a thousand or more of us decided to not login and go play Perpetuum or WoT or whatever else. But the login numbers on TQ didn't seem to change one iota, which tells everyone with a stake in this matter that you, CCP, are correct in your observations, and that we are just a bunch of puffy-chested liars who will scuttle back under your wing in the end. I think mostly this is because Eve takes forever and a day to really get anywhere, and after ~8 years or so, most of us simply have too much invested in the game to actually give more than token voice to the protests.
Ten thousand replies! A million views! On a single thread at that, not counting the disastrously smarmy devblog, the smaller wildfires that have jumped firelines/firebreaks. And yet, it still wasn't/isn't enough. Again because we players are nothing more than hollow schlubs who are too addicted to your crack after being strung out for years. I mean, what player that has spend the 75bil or so for a Titan and the skills to fly it would want to really give it up? Which alliance after fighting endless battles and serious metagaming is ready to give up their gold farm out in nullsec? I myself have billions upon billions in assets in Eve, and I'll admit the going is extremely rough right now. Today my alliance and friends went on a pretty huge roam, and the kb shows some good kills, kills that I normally am on, and yeah it sucks. It feels like I'm the only who is really adamant about not participating until real questions are answered.
But I am pretty sure the major question is not going to be resolved. You didn't answer the BIG YELLOW QUESTION yet. Gold ammo means nothing. Your words mean nothing.
ACTIONS.
We'll see...
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