Because you I don't want to deal with other people?

Because MMO companies just don't seem to learn.


Might be because they want to lose more subscriptions.




Basically it comes down to this, if you have content that people can join in with but do not have to join a group to do it then more people seem to be happier with that. Warhammer Online was a good example with their RvR (realm v's realm), yes I know it's a dead game now but it wasn't because of the RvR, but more because of the uneven realm populations.

Forcing people to group to do content just doesn't work because, there's a lot of players that won't join corps/guilds anymore for various reasons. So if content becomes more group orientated all it will do is push more people away from the game.

It's a sandbox, developers shouldn't try to push players into playing the way they want them to play.


As for those that keep saying it's an MMO you should have to group, you're still living in the stone age . MMO communities are much more varied these days.

EVE doesn't exactly foster a good community spirit, but I guess it's not designed to.

EVE is pay to win after all.

I'd say

PLEX is a form of pay-to-win, makes it easy to buy ships/skill books/implants although somewhat limited by what skills your character has trained.

Buying ready made characters via the bazaar is a form of pay-to-win.

Multiple accounts is also a form of pay-to-win, for obvious reasons, even CCP acknowledges this with their power of two adverts.



They're the only ones I can think of though.

EvE is a PvP game.

Getting out there in your ship fighting other people's ships (one of the ways to PvP in EvE) is considered practice/experience. Under normal circumstances, a person gets better the more they practice (the more experience they gain).

Person A practices the entire time they are online. Let's say 3 hours a night. They spend the entire time practicing because they just buy plex and sell it in game for the isk they need to afford practicing.
Person B practices only 1 hour a night because the other 2 hours is spent grinding isk to afford practicing.

Someone being able to practice 3 hours a night has an absolute advantage over someone who is only able to practice 1 hour a night.

Therefore person A was able to buy an advantage.

The "because you can do it without paying, it just takes longer" is a complete strawman

So you say no advantage has been purchased.

Two new players
Player 1 just has 1 account and doesn't buy PLEX.
Player 2 buys an additional account, on that second account he buys a 25 Million sp character from the bazaar. He also buys 6 PLEX.

So Tippia, you're saying Player 2 has no advantage over player one?

All 3 are being purchased via additional funds to the first subscription.

So ok, from what you're saying gold ammo wouldn't be pay-to-win either. After all you're saying it's not what you use it's how you use it.

Although a player with a character with 25 million sp who has been playing for a week is going to do well against another character that's been playing for a week even with no experience.