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Andski
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2013.01.17 19:48:00 -
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Don't worry. We'll probably see mutual consent to wardecs, requirement of consent for in-corp killing and a heavily nerfed form of suicide ganking with global 5-second CONCORD response be rendered the only way to kill something in hisec.
~*a proud belligerent undesirable*~
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Andski
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2013.01.17 19:51:00 -
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The playerbase as a whole has shifted towards "limit PvP to lowsec and nullsec because hisec is supposed to be perfectly safe." That's the vocal minority who will likely end up getting their way. The game won't grow as a result of hisec being perfectly safe, but carebears' wallets (and thus the size of their cashout) will.
~*a proud belligerent undesirable*~
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Andski
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2013.01.17 20:15:00 -
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Captain Tardbar wrote:Let's be realistic here. Back in the day I would gank people all the time in Ultima Online and in fact I would take newbies out in the woods to show them my house only to kill them once we got far enough out of town so they couldn't run and call guards.
Yes that was fun, but it probaly killed subscriptions.
I'll admit I had a blast but I personally probaly got a handful of newbies to quit Ultima Online after stealing all their stuff.
The truth of the matter is that Ultima Online subs eventually went down because of World of Warcraft in which you couldn't PvP on most servers except for designated areas and events.
UO gave players the option to kill wolves in the carebear island where nobody could ever touch them. WoW trumped UO's subscription numbers for other reasons, not "wow i don't get killed in this game as often"
Captain Tardbar wrote:Ganking/greifing causes subcription loss and CCP wants higher subscription numbers.
EVE isn't for everyone, period. Players will leave because they get scammed, because they lost their ship in a mission, because they jumped into a low-sec system and got instapopped, because it takes months to train into the Raven that everyone says is ~the best~ for L4s which take a lot of time to grind standings for or because it takes months to train into the Mackinaw that everyone says to train for mining.
If CCP addresses any of that stuff they'll be going down a horrible path. As it turns out, EVE isn't about growing your wallet to maximize your cashout when you leave to whatever the next big themepark MMO is.
~*a proud belligerent undesirable*~
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