Originally by: Anna Maziarczyk

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Originally by: CCP Soundwave

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Originally by: AkJon Ferguson

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As a courtesy to Kris, who expressed a great deal of confusion in his diatribe in Fearless, I will help clear some of that up for him.

"I would like virtual goods sales in EVE. In fact, I'd like to sell a lot more than vanity items. Does this mean I'm an evil capitalist that, unless stopped, will cause the entire company to catch fire and be buried at sea by a secret team of Navy SEALs?"

Thank-you for expressing your own opinion in such unambiguous terms. No, it doesn't mean that you're an evil capitalist that, unless stopped, will cause the entire company to catch fire and be buried at sea by a team of Navy SEALs, but thank-you for providing such a wonderful example of your annoying sense of 'humor' that many of us find so grating.

What it DOES mean, however, is that you are either completely ignorant or a liar. If you don't know that your company promised to its customers that MT would be vanity only, you are completely ignorant. If you do know that your company promised to its customers that MT would be vanity only but you plan to ignore that promise, you are a liar. I leave it to your discretion if you'd care to clarify which you are.

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I think you're painting an extremely black and white picture based on an opinion piece. I haven't written a single design that includes MT in my life, and when the day comes that I do, it will be within the bounds of my previous post. That's it really.

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Should we treat ALL communications from you with the same grain of salt? If we like what you are saying, then its coming from you. But if we don't like it, or disagree, or we feel insulted by it, then its just silly talk and should be disregarded?

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Originally by: The Blind One

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I would like to apologize to you on behalf of the playerbase. You have consistently been one of the people at CCP who demonstrates a real and tangible passion for Eve Online. You put a lot of hard work into making this game as good as it can be for this group of socially-backward, aspie ******s.

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Originally by: Anna Maziarczyk

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Eve is dead.

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Originally by: xxxTRUSTxxx

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Edited by: xxxTRUSTxxx on 03/07/2011 19:52:22

we the community of eve have a right to vioce how we felt about the leaked documents.

we where right to be up in arms, and IF in the future something like this happens again.

we will have the right to make it clearly known to the company that we are not happy campers.

as i sure soundwave would agree,, any other way and it just wouldn't be EVE.

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Originally by: Komen

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To the OP: You don't speak for me, and on a simple vocal opinion poll of my corp, many of whom don't bother to really hit the forums much, you don't speak for the majority of them, either. The rest of Eve I cannot speak for.

Those who called for Soundwave's head, metaphorically or otherwise, were focusing on him because he wrote the opinion piece. Some are mad about the tone of the piece. Me, I was/am mad because we were promised no P2W, and yet here is a CCPer apparently arguing the case for it, AFTER the promise was made. It creates the appearance of CCP thinking about whether to go back on their word.

That CCP still does not seem to get why this is so upsetting, is in itself upsetting.

In short: That piece should never have been written. It should instead have been an article about a firm belief on Soundwave's part, as stated in this thread, that P2W is boring and mis-placed in a game about persistance and consequences.

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Originally by: CCP Soundwave

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Dresses, ship skins, hair pieces? No problem. But nothing that screws up the competitive balance between two players. It's boring and doesn't really bring value to the players.

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Originally by: CCP Shadow

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Just for clarification, the skillpoints CCP will be giving pilots to make up for the extended downtime in this case is not tied to microtransactions. Editing to add this: We do not

Originally by: AkJon Ferguson

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As a courtesy to Kris, who expressed a great deal of confusion in his diatribe in Fearless, I will help clear some of that up for him.

"I would like virtual goods sales in EVE. In fact, I'd like to sell a lot more than vanity items. Does this mean I'm an evil capitalist that, unless stopped, will cause the entire company to catch fire and be buried at sea by a secret team of Navy SEALs?"

Thank-you for expressing your own opinion in such unambiguous terms. No, it doesn't mean that you're an evil capitalist that, unless stopped, will cause the entire company to catch fire and be buried at sea by a team of Navy SEALs, but thank-you for providing such a wonderful example of your annoying sense of 'humor' that many of us find so grating.

What it DOES mean, however, is that you are either completely ignorant or a liar. If you don't know that your company promised to its customers that MT would be vanity only, you are completely ignorant. If you do know that your company promised to its customers that MT would be vanity only but you plan to ignore that promise, you are a liar. I leave it to your discretion if you'd care to clarify which you are.

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Originally by: Gaeid Modiso

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Originally by: CCP Soundwave

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Dresses, ship skins, hair pieces? No problem. But nothing that screws up the competitive balance between two players. It's boring and doesn't really bring value to the players.

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If you sell hair pieces, you also need to sell a point and laugh emote for use in the station. Can we get a Donald Trump hair piece?

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Originally by: Cashcow Golden Goose

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Thanks for fooling the masses Soundwave, it has been a collaboration of genius.
I wish I could fool this many people so easily.

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Originally by: Vera Maricadie

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Edited by: Vera Maricadie on 03/07/2011 20:39:18
While I didn't agree with the position espoused in the article written by CCP Soundwave in Fearless, I do accept that it was an opinion piece meant to counter the anti-MT position, and thus was not a future policy statement.

From what I read in that article, and from what I've read from him on these forums, I think he has a firm grasp of how the player base feels about non-vanity MT, and just as importantly, *why* they feel that way. That's key for me.

The fact that he's responded in this this thread in the manner that he has, makes me that much more positive about EVE's future in the wake of the disaster of the last 1.5 weeks.

Thanks for posting here and sharing your thoughts here Soundwave, you've made me a happy, paying customer.

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