People are really flipping out here... it's a strange time for the game. I don't think people were this emotional about the Incarna fiasco. I wonder how many people just unsubbed and walked....

This feeling of injustice is one I can't understand and I hope someone can enlighten me.

We as a player base don't fund all of the other development, CCP does.

We pay for access to the game that already exists and the money we use to do that no longer belongs to us, it belongs to CCP.

While I obviously hope that some of the subscription fee helps further development of the game, it is ridiculous to expect someone else to spend their money only in a way that I think they should. Just as I have the right to chose how I spend my money, so does CCP.

Also, in every RL business and organisation I have worked in, no department is a true silo. There is a lot of consultation and communication between teams and ideas that end up being used by one team often originate or have substantial input from others. So to think that all of the developers working on Dust and other projects don't also have a input into the further development of Eve is a little naive I think.

At the moment for me personally, and for a lot of people I know, Eve has become stagnate.

So....here's the thing. CCP is developing...what 3 other games atm? Valkyrie, Dust, and WoD. That's where the "R&D" went, obviously. You can't develop 3 titles in parallel without funding, and it's CCP's right to spend their fund exactly as they see fit.

Dust looks to be an abysmal failure. It's simply a question of time, for every step forward Dust takes, the rest of the fps market takes 3 steps forward. Dust is bust. Valkyrie is a wildcard. I hope it does well, I want to play it. WoD....didn't they close down the Georgia studio that was working on WoD?

Rubicon looks to be a decent amount of positive changes. But it isn't really a decent sized expansion. The last time we got something that was truly "expansion" sized was Apocrypha. A few ships alone don't really count as an expansion. Now, between Incarna and Rubicon, we've gotten an absolute MOUNTAIN of bug fixes and rebalancing. These fixes were necessary and helped the game immensely, but I think the bulk of the community thinks time has come for new features, on the scale of Apocrypha. Passed time in fact.

If he's cashing out and obviously isn't intending to come back then why would he care whether his RMT is traceable?

Yes they have done a lot of bug fixes and a lot of rebalancing while actually dodging the main 3 things that needed fixing

POS code, Sov and Corporate roles and access.

Yes it is CCPs right to spend their money as they choose but it is also very much a consumers right to say "Hey, how about instead of spending all your money on other crap, you spend it on the game that actually PAYS you"

And they wonder why they need a gambling site to keep them afloat

Its all about CCPs **** crisis management.
During the Ishukone scandal they were out of town and couldnt be bothered to deal with community stuff, I dont agree with this but welp.
Now its obvious that CCP actually dont give a **** independently from if they are or are not at work w/e.

This feeling of injustice is one I can't understand and I hope someone can enlighten me.

We as a player base don't fund all of the other development, CCP does.

We pay for access to the game that already exists and the money we use to do that no longer belongs to us, it belongs to CCP.

While I obviously hope that some of the subscription fee helps further development of the game, it is ridiculous to expect someone else to spend their money only in a way that I think they should. Just as I have the right to chose how I spend my money, so does CCP.

Also, in every RL business and organisation I have worked in, no department is a true silo. There is a lot of consultation and communication between teams and ideas that end up being used by one team often originate or have substantial input from others. So to think that all of the developers working on Dust and other projects don't also have a input into the further development of Eve is a little naive I think.

The only real right a consumer has in the case of an online video game is to choose whether or not to spend their own money on it. It's just that simple really.

Tidi has actually made large fights playable, so I wouldn't say they've dodged all the hard issues. The facwar fixes were also great. Crimewatch too. But all of those were fixes for things that were generally in a bad state beforehand.

We could really use some genuinely new content (like apocrypha). I'm not asking for an apocrypha expansion every 6 months. But an apocrypha sized expansion every 3-4 years? Would be reliably good for everything, from the playerbase to CCP's bottom line.

Ive just worked out why No-one is playing eve. Its because theyre all reading and writing these forums and blogs and such instead of playing the game !

Ive just worked out why No-one is playing eve. Its because theyre all reading and writing these forums and blogs and such instead of playing the game !

Spot on, especially since CCP has had a discussion with SOMER about their incentive program.