And again I see the "but the carebears will quit!" defense. Do you all have like, a list of this bullshit that you look at whenever this topic comes up?

Same old story, same old song and dance.

If you feel this way, then pardon my curiousity, but why do you still play this game?

Deadwood. All DEVs should be forced too watch Deadwood 10 Times. And apparantly some a few times more. Then they they would finally understand how humans act. From the Lawless start (where you can make it ritch) to some kind of civilized situation (where gains are less). This is what people do and want in reallife. And CCP has the bad habit of not respecting this. Their latest decission tries to go into the trend. Which government privatizes its custom services and let companies determine tax-rates in a monopoly situation (since there is only 1 per planet)?? Even if they get their cut, the resulting decreased trade and hence economic dowfall and general unhappiness of the populaiton would make them vulnerable. It's just not realistic.

How long would it take for some Nullsec Alliance to realize there is free money there. Just shoot everything up, put your own stuff in place and see the money come. After all, high-seccers are the civilized part of space. They don't fight as good nor do they want too. Cilivized people have the law and the army for that. So the only serious counter-reaction would be from another serious Null-sec Alliance. And so War comes to HighSec. Which idiot government allows that??

Perhaps DEV salaries should be linked to the tax income of planets, then they would think twice about doing stupid stuff

EVE has always in one way or another had games to compete with it.

There are games right now that offer the things these"tards" say they want, but they won't go play them, they'd rather sit and be miserable in EVE on the off chance CCP "comes to it's senses" and destroys the winning formula that has allowed it to survive for 10 years....

Nope, Tards gonna Tard, that means that they will try SC after loudly announcing on this forum that they are leaving, find that it doesn't have the same things that EVE has (because the SC DEVs are TELLING people upfront what the game will be like, which is falling on deaf ears), and in a stunning reversal, return to playing EVE Online...but their return will be a whole order of magnitude quieter than their departure.

"I've worked on all of these games with 10m+ subscribers"

~none of these games ever existed~

ASAIC, It should be (almost) impossible to have "burn Jita" events,

i eneded threed ays tog et hooekd and ayear to figure I was paying the wrong game.

WoW is hemorrhaging subs, for the precise reason that they pissed off their regular base in the hopes of catering to the noobs and the casuals. Content is cheapened further and further with every patch so little Timmy doesn't feel left behind by the good players.

And guess what? People are tired of being loyal to a company that does not value veteran players who supported the game in the first place. So they leave.

Meanwhile, EVE flourishes, and remains the only example of a growing subscription model MMO on the market. CCP even has money to burn on stupid projects like DUST.

For the next expansion, Garrosh travels back in time to recruit an army from the past to conquer Azeroth. You wish I was kidding.

Be very thankful that you do not have tweenage cousins. I never hear the end of that damned game, and I quit 4 1/2 years ago.

GǪand you have some actual examples of this, presumably?

Do you have any examples GÇö past, present, or future GÇö of this actually happening?