Edward Olmops
Gunboat Commando
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Posted - 2016.06.25 10:26:32 -
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Hi CCP Rise,
kudos for your efforts for player retention. Here is something very odd to chew on:
I played a nonexistent feature until the moment it actually became reality. Whoa. Now make something of this as a game developer. :-D
Background:
I am a subscriber since 2009, used to play a lot, being logged in for hours on a daily basis. During the last 2-3 years I dropped to casual with times of more intense activity. Various reasons, but the main thing is that I do not want to dedicate the biggest part of my free time to playing EVE any more (strategic decision). I still play games, but I find myself rather doing one or two rounds of LoL than playing EVE despite I am convinced EVE is far better.
It's difficult to find something
-engaging (intellectually AND feel of achievement through impact on the universe and/or ingame gratification, but with a focus on the former)
-I haven't done yet over and over again
-I can do for just an hour once or several times a week
Now, recently I played on that basis again for several months (almost daily logins, activity in space, interaction, content generation for others etc).
The solution:
Industry & PI fit my playstyle/schedule, logistics and market speculation are sufficiently challenging and the prospect of building one of the first Citadels promised to be an achievement with an impact on the world and the game of fellow pilots.
However, since I lack the time to run one, Citadels became uninteresting the moment they started appearing everywhere and repeating the same PI clicks over and over again is nothing I will sacrifice time for.
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PvP sadly is nothing for me any more since I will hardly find fights in my playing time window (except in FW), despite having superior CHARACTER skills I will TOTALLY suck (meta changed a hundred times since I last tried), everyone will overestimate me due to character age.
At least that is what I believe.
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Thrill of the hunt feedback:
was excited about the feature.
Then as you have correctly found out: it did not make me log in.
That is until 2 weeks ago when I logged in for different reasons, tried it out. Then it made me log in various times just for that and triggered interaction with others (working as designed?)
And today I even got a faction spawn. YAY.  |