The big difference is that for the vets, those players who have been playing for years and years, the skill gap between them and everyone else in the game was far smaller more fair, just imagine how massive a skill gap there is between you for example and me, or any new player for that matter, how am I supposed to compete with you and other vet's in their tech 3's or tech II's and all tech II modules or in their carrier's and super caps when the biggest thing I can fly is all tech 1, even with meta 4 modules it's nothing but throwing rocks at a Panzer tank.

As I said you guys were playing the game in a different time, you cant compare your noob experience of that of a new player today, the game may still be EvE but the environment within is totally different.

Hi CCP. Perhaps if you measure the crowd's reaction in response to withdrawing this potentially addictive game element, you could improve your data? Why did you remove it?

Yes, most new players, casual players, or returning players missed it because we don't read the forums daily. We don't scour them for things to complain about, but we do come to them when changes that we care about are linked in patch notes, hence the reason you see an 'overwhelmingly negative' response initially, and now an 'overwhelmingly negative' response to their removal.

Honestly, this is going to be the reason I quit and never come back. It's a little thing, but it's a thing that matters. It's a thing that's indicative of what CCP is doing. They've adopted a freemium model of upsells for 'big fish' by introducing skill injectors. The changes to the economy have made it very difficult to succeed in doing anything without buying and selling PLEX (I remember when getting to L3 missions meant you could actually afford the ship required to farm them).

If you're going to go after a freemium model for your income, make your game free to play.

If you're not, then don't penalize new players for not buying your freemium nonsense, and don't yank those few things that could help new players get an edge after only a few weeks.

Unless something amazing happens before the time I've already bought runs out, I probably won't even log again. There's just no reason to play as a newbro.

I think there should be a return of Thrill of the Hunt later, but in an expanded form. I'm of a mind that the skill queue should be accelerated through activity within the game. I.e. You get a really small boost for logging in, but you also get a boost for clearing out ratting sites, finishing manufacturing projects, mining an asteroid to its depletion. Basically a player should be rewarded for playing the game outside of just material gains and losses through ISK. I get that this is a massively multiplayer space simulation and not a traditional MMO, but traditional MMOs have ideas that keep people logged in. We can borrow some of those ideas on some level and retain EVE Online's identity. So long as there is risk involved or resources involved, it's perfectly fine.

Good riddance



That's funny because that's what I did because they added dailies. I also stopped logging in.

The problem this game will always have is its ungrateful old EXPERT Userbase. And some pretending as if they always paid for the game when in reality a lot of them have used the plex system to get the **** for free and they have no problem to use the noobs. But when it comes to the experience and the right of the noob player to make their voices heard than that is completly unfair.