Katran Luftschreck
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
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Posted - 2014.03.24 09:35:00 -
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Moonlit Raid wrote:Pretty much this mate. The big alliances with the majority of accounts have the biggest say, almost in an identical way to shareholders do in a plc. If you can get over that then just find what you're happy with doing. If you don't like the majority shareholder having their way sell your shares [quit the game] and leave eve.
The majority shareholder is the hisec playebase, and the numbers prove it. However, they are of an independent mindset and would, for the most part, like for things to remain as they are, because with the exception of the mining barge changes last year every new expansion has only brought changes that make their gaming experience less enjoyable.
The reason for this, as everyone knows, is that the CSM are all nullsec powerblock flacks, and they've got the biggest mouths & the best liars on their side. Their goal is to make everyone in EvE either kneel before their ego-driven internet empires or quit the game entirely, and they don't even try to hide this fact. Whether or not the game actually survives this mass exodus is of no concern to them.
Therefore making any allegories to EvE's development process having anything to do with democracy or shareholders are sarcasm at best and farcical at worst. The "majority shareholders," as you call them, are the minority of the playerbase. Just as in real life, a powerful minority holds all the actual power and yet the sham facade of democracy - which no one believes is any way fair or honest - continues to persist.
In the end what we have in these dev notes is that yes, mission runners, ratters, and anyone who does a lot of looting are going to get royally screwed. More economic power is going to be handed on a plate to the nullblock powers, but that's just par for the course (see above).
What I find interesting is this: CCP has outsmarted everyone. In the guise of doing their usual fellating of Mittani & Friends Inc they have actually unveiled another pork ridden patch that ultimately serves to pad their own pockets by forcing people to waste even more months of training time just to stay exactly where they were before, and we all know that Moar Training Team = Moar Money for CCP.
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