Drones keep getting killed, bit by bit, just like high sec.
I have switched to a gun boat for my PvE since drones' effective DPS is a shadow of what it was a year ago.
And the faction damage mods on the way won't even begin to address the ridiculous nerfs drones have endured, let alone all the ones lined up in 4 weeks.

1. See revised title.
2. Gecko dps will drop 6.3-25% on June 3.

It's losing 50% of the drone interface bonus June 3.
But you're right, I must be imagining that it could possible have an effect...

If we didn't get anything for EVE's birthday few would have noticed and even fewer would have cared.

Those were all pretty minor. I suppose the Gnosis does come close.

I mean I see your point but still, if you're going to release something, don't release it with blatantly inflated strength for a month just because you think it'll be nice.

The stats issue is a huge part of why I feel like they're gimmicks though. It would have been fine if they were released with realistic stats, but they weren't. They have artificially inflated stats for no reason other than the fact that they were released too early.

Except a month of overpowered drones that everyone gets has a much more profound effect on game balance than some AT prize ships that mostly won't even see combat at all outside of the AT.

Except when we add the other changes that aren't to the Gecko, suddenly the Gecko has 25% lower DPS.
It's directly affected by a change. That change may as well have been to it.

Edit for clarification: This argument was never about, so far as I was concerned, understanding the technicalities or reasonings of what was happening, but rather whether the term nerf could be applied to this or mechanically similar situations.