Intentional Concord Bringer
Evil Rotten Bastards
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Posted - 2016.01.19 07:46:58 -
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I suppose since the last time P2W came around it was called MonacleGate, this one ought to be called SPGate, eh?
Listen, CCP. Either charge me a sub fee or sell me golden trinkets, but don't expect to be able to do both and not get a ton of flack from those of us who have been around the block with you on this a few times.
I get it, CCP... you're in the business of making money. At the end of the day, despite everything you've ever said or done or said you would do - you're in business to make money. I think every EvE player can appreciate that. Your tactics, however, tend to leave much to be desired.
For instance, as far as I can tell from the comments on this dev blog and the ones from the last dev blog... 'overwhelming support' is, frankly, a mis-characterization of the facts. "Overwhelming concern' might have been a more appropriate characterization of the response in both threads - though it does seem outright disdain for the idea would be the more appropriate description.
Once again, CCP, you are breeding distrust amongst your players by choosing to poorly represent both the support for this idea and the real reasons behind it. Masking it as some attempts to 'help newer players' when, in reality, it is really all about getting new players to break open their wallet and hand you more money... isn't helping your cause.
When will you folks learn to simply be honest about your intentions? I think that's what really irks players here - not so much that your're finding inventive ways to soak more real life money out of your players... but that your being willfully misleading in your representation of that fact. Own it.
Me? I have no real dog in this fight - I think the idea is overall a bad one, but it won't generally affect me. All my toons are well above 6 figure SP and spending ISK or AUR for a paltry 150k (or any amount even) of SP just ins't even on my radar. Farming alts is also not on my radar so this 'feature' has little to no impact on my gameplay, aside from having to learn that a week old toon could possibly have a **** ton of SP and to bring more friends and bigger guns JIC.
So, choose a model and go with it - either subscriptions and long skills trains where experience and skills go hand in hand and it takes years to get to a point where you're good at anything, or no subs and p2w the sh!t out of EvE - but please quit trying to do both. It's a shameful practice and it really irks your player base... in case you hadn't noticed all the negative feedback. |