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Yarrrrrhh
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Posted - 2011.06.27 19:22:00 -
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Edited by: Yarrrrrhh on 27/06/2011 19:24:57
Someone got their hands on the latest annual report of CCP. You can check it out yourself here.
CCP is a profitable company but it looks like it is having some cash flow problems because development costs for Dust and WoD are high. You can read an analysis of their situation here.
They will have to repay a large loan later this year which will require most of their cash assets therefore they'd have to take another loan or sell parts of their company. For that to be feasible though CCP has to show that it's making a profit and apparently they're trying to use MT to make their cash flow problem look less serious.
Which explains pretty much everything that CCP has done, said and hinted at so far.
TL;DR
Dust and WoD are burning too much of CCPs cash and therefore they need to at least show that MT can work in EVE so they can get their hands on fresh cash from loans/equity deals.
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Posted - 2011.06.27 19:27:00 -
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 Originally by: Lug Thorne
So really their short term financial future depends on keeping Eve going?
After jeopardizing it with WoD and Dust. That's how it looks to me.
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Posted - 2011.06.27 19:31:00 -
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Originally by: Xinxua
Originally by: Yarrrrrhh
Originally by: Lug Thorne
So really their short term financial future depends on keeping Eve going?
After jeopardizing it with WoD and Dust. That's how it looks to me.
Yes sticking to one product line and not expanding into new markets is the best way to expand your company.
Not sure if serious but: why did they have to start TWO new insanely big development projects at the same time?
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Posted - 2011.06.27 19:54:00 -
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Originally by: Illadelph Justice
Well they have to finish WoD before people stop reading twilight books.
One more reason to do that first and not develop Dust at the same time as well.
CCP management bit off more than it could chew.
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Posted - 2011.06.27 20:07:00 -
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Originally by: Ispai Ponue
Originally by: Yarrrrrhh
A personal note to CCP: A very unconventional solution would be to actually raise subscription fees after communicating it correctly to the community.
The problem is that I for one am not really willing to pay more at this point. I think others might feel the same. Here's why:
* The gameplay isn't actually THAT interesting. PvE sucks. PvP is cool but you end up in all these "have-to" situations filled with drama. If you just feel like doing something else people freak out. The only thing that really leaves a casual player is solo pirating, and that also gets pretty boring a lot of the time.
* I'm really disappointed in the company behind the game. They decide to rewrite it all in Python (the parts that where not already) because it supposedly increases testability, etc...and less and less actually works with every patch. They silently remove features for no apparent reason, don't fix what's currently broken, and just leave long standing issues that the players are complaining about untouched.
* The latest expansions kind of suck. Incarna is the end result of what I see as a continuous trend in the game: too much focus on nonsense while the actual game suffers. There's nothing about Incarna that's actually worth a damn. I hate CQ and find it utterly useless and though the guns are cool and all, I'd much rather an overview that functioned (just for one extreme example).
All of this stuff combined and I've hardly bothered to even log in of late. When I do it's just to train, not to play. I'm already asking myself WTF I keep shelling out money for this game (I have a measly 2 accounts). If they raised the price I think it would be the final push I need to just unsub.
Not to say that it's not a valid idea, I'm just saying that to me it simply wouldn't be worth it to pay more. I'm already kind of ****ed I have to pay for two accounts just to train two characters. No other MMO forces me to do that. So it's already the most expensive MMO I've ever played and really have no interest in paying any more.
But that's just me.
You're right. I'm going to remove that from my post.
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Posted - 2011.06.27 21:21:00 -
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Originally by: Nizran L'Crit
Monthly subs are fairly straightforward, plexes can, if enough are redeemed at once, cause a huge hole where they aren't receiving any monthly income from that person/players.
Did anyone say 'bank run'?
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Posted - 2011.06.27 21:28:00 -
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Originally by: stoicfaux
Why is the report in English, and why does it use US dollars?
Because CCP is an international company I guess.
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Posted - 2011.06.28 05:14:00 -
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Originally by: Asmodeus Et'Mort
So one question to all you accounting boffins out there, Isnt plex a liability to the company that should be included in these figures?
Apparently they are. Read the FHC thread at page 9 or so.
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