Originally by: Ferric Sevic

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Originally by: Seven Sphynx

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they made over 3000 players cancel over 5000 accounts within a few days.

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I've seen this argument used for weeks now and it insults the intelligence of the community that you would even try to pass it off as a rational for an argument without first performing due diligence.

1) Cite your sources. This is pretty basic.

2) You have provided no analysis of what happens to the player subscription rates following the release of an expansion. You have no idea what the normal rate of desubscription vs resubscription on a per day basis, much less during the weeks following a release. For all we know, 3000 de subs could be the norm, except this time people just decided to whine and post about it.

3) This is perhaps the most critical oversight. You didn't poll anyone who might have subscribed to eve because they thought Incarna was cool or liked the feature.

So you really have no idea what happened to the subscription rates, you only know that a lot of peopled signed a form saying they quit.

You may doubt my sanity for buying NeX items, but I am assured of the lack of your intelligence from your post.

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Originally by: Ranka Mei

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Originally by: Yarrrrrhh

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If there was nothing about the cancellations of accounts then why did CCP fly in the CSM on an emergency meeting?

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Well, there was obviously an issue. But as to the extent of it we can only guess: and our guesses are probably far off -- save to say it was probably serious. But citing cancelation numbers, without actually having the numbers, is as good as pointless.

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