Originally by: Kaver Linkovir

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There are many reasons for players to rebel against CCP, but, chief among them is a general underperformance by CCP on nearly everything. The player resents CCP for it's lack in communication skills, a severe lack of empathic ability, disastrous patches and failed new content. The longer a player sticks with EVE the more apparent the underperformance of CCP becomes.

Of this the Micro-Transaction rebellion of players is only the latest symptom that feeds off of the underlying malcontent with the service CCP provides it's players. Simply put, players don't trust CCP to treat EVE Online with the care it deserves based on dismal past performance.

Some of the reasons that cause the schism are, in no particular order:

• ôthe logs show nothingö as a standard-reply to players experiencing difficulty on issues that should have been resolved or rewritten five patches ago. Among these are the Aggression Timer malfunctions, overview glitches, Mission spawn malfunctions, lag-spike pod losses and a plethora of other small issues that every player has, at some point, experienced. This has escalated to the point at which seasoned players forego petitioning because they can dream the replies.

• Consistent underperforming around patches in communication, time management and bugs. Patches get delayed and promised features take longer to finally arrive. Server offline times for patches consistently go over the communicated time-line without any compensation for the player for the time lost, be it scheduled or unscheduled time and the new and improved EVE is always bug ridden to extremes with the current iteration of Captains Quarters causing difficulty for a guestimated ten percent of the playerbase.

• Rumours of favouritism in the addressing of nearly everything that has to do with exploits and GM behaviour. This is further compounded by the gag order on any GM decision giving the impression of behaviour that would not stand up to public scrutiny. This also means that CCP lacks a soundboard within the player community to test the waters on it's decisions. This isolates the GM from the playerbase on it's decisions.

• Feature abandonment for new shiny stuff. We have all seen sleepers come to a grinding halt, the Sansha incursions becoming commonplace without any further nurturing of the storyline or live events to support her as well as the orphan boy named faction warfare that sits malnourished in a corner screaming ôI am not dead, keep that bodybag away from meö while wielding autocannons at anyone coming too close.

• Consistent failing to come to a complete system for 0.0 functionality on sovereignty coupled with the trappings of POS living.

In short, players have felt that CCP underpreforms and in this underpreforming it is hurting the playerbase as well as EVE Online's ability to be the best thing after sliced bread.

The player protests that swept New Eden highlight this. And while most people really do worry about microtransactions that will alter game experience beyond the mere cosmetic it is the underlying schism that feeds the protests further compounded by a rat in CCP's offices that feeds information tailored to set off the playerbase. A rat that may well share the players concern, judging by it's leaks (or a REALLY failed attempt by CCP to test the waters for it's intended course).

CCP has displayed a disturbing and highly unprofessional inability to deal with with the player base in a constructive manner. In fact, most would be hard pressed to do worse if asked to do their worst.

Please state the issues that made you lose faith in CCP's ability to safegaurd your enjoyment of EVE. Be heard.

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