Grievance
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Posted - 2005.04.23 16:12:00 -
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 Originally by: Viceroy
That's like letting players buy pieces for $ in a game of chess. Guess what? The whole point of chess just went down the drain.
I'd prefer that the poor people in RL be allowed to compete on the same level in a goddamn game if nothing else.
Agreed.
It's only companies like SOE that have 'Corporate Buttheads' scrawled across them that would do something like this.
CCP, whilst being in the business to make money, is completely different in the way it is run. Remember that CCP made the game because they wanted it to be fun, not solely so they could make money. I feel that CCP's relationship and rÚport with the playerbase pretty much confirms this.
Like Viceroy said, think of how some people irritate you when they nuke your Apoc with 10 times the number of ships, then go all g33ksp34k in local. Now, imagine if you had to pay, or decided to pay, ú20 for each one.
Or, imagine if you mined you ass off to buy your first battleship, but then some ******* with half the number of skilllpoints whoops you, because his dad bought him a Caldari Navy Raven fully equipped with 'Insert Random NPC Officer *****' loot for his 13th birthday.
Yea, it would get flippin' annoying. And I can tell you the two possible ways that Eve will go:
1. The carebears would leave (due to mass gankage due to influx of FPS Quake kill***** kiddies), Eve's player driven economy would collapse due to lack of mineral production, and the kill*****s would be left buying ships for NPC prices and lining CCP's pockets.
2. (The most likely scenario) The combat pilots (the one's looking for a challenge) would leave. The carebears would mine and sell their **** on ebay, all of them. since nothing is being sold on the market, the player driven economy would collapse.
There's a slight variation in that theme, but yea, that's pretty much it. It wouldn't work, they would need to do a game redesign, and considering the amount of times that we've asked for them to recode to get rid of the bugs, i doubt that'll happen.
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