Bea corpse
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Posted - 2011.10.07 16:59:00 -
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well...
I-¦ve been here more or less since 2005.
There are a few things that have been bothering me for a long time and some of them have to do with ccp's focus or direction.
ccp is just a company, with managers and shareholders. when revenue starts slipping, it gets noticed. thats all that is really happening here. hilmar is trying to rally, both his own troops and players. not sure its gonna work - too little and too late indeed.
the fact is, while ccp has been busy trying to push and polish the "eve-is-real" experience (please!) and throwing in character creation (huge waste of time and diskspace) and captain quarters in order to appeal to a broader base of customers they have been neglecting their old (and, at one time, willfully paying) subscribers.
I don-¦t pay for EO anymore and I won't go back to that if Incarna and CQ is all that we can look forward to in the very near future. I've done the alliance bit, the 0.0 bit, piracy, missions, yaddyyadda, WH, exploration...all besides industry really, and why would I pay money to do that in a space game??
the only real reason to play and stick with eve is space. Not stations. Not blingy avatars or (come on people!) monocles or shoulder pads! its space and what you get to do in it, alone, in small groups or big, as long as you are having fun. that is where you get your immersion, the fun factor....all else fades very very quickly.
so, ccp lost their way - they forgot the real reason why peeps want(ed) to play eve.
finally listening to reason (paying users screaming for attention) does not constitute courage, nobility or any honorable human trait. seeing your wallet bleed, however, and your company profit drop usually prompts people to some kind of action. don't make this "dev blog" out to be anything else than it really is - a plea to players to not leave the game.
someone posted earlier that ccp may have bought themselves some time. maybe they will have enough time to finish and launch dust514, and maybe not. In either case, I have paid more than Gé¼1000 to ccp in subscription(s) during my playtime. It was fun (note past tense) and I hope it will be again. I've got ISK for about 10months and that's all the time I'm giving ccp.
a few years ago, while playing another char, i postulated that eve was dying. i still think it is, and hilmar's only proving me right.
(posted as former char: Finn Yr)
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