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I hope all of the shipping lanes burn and all mining ceases.

"Damn this game looks sweet! But this alpha clone can't get things done... maybe I'll upgrade it to omega? Ha, but then, I'll really need a secondary account to scout, plus a third neutral one if I want to haul, market, etc... hmm... how can I make 3.9b to fund those... is a sociopathy simulator worth 45 bucks a month?"

I would argue that people like you have ruined not only the game but the world in its entirety because you fail to read more than one comment in a forum and assume you know exactly what's going on. Had you read my more recent posts including the ones directly above your own you'd note that not only do I support gate camping I partake in it.

This thread is not about that, this is about the failure of ccps free to play model, gate camping is just one of many examples I used which will act as a deterrent to new players that don't have access to anything above t1 cruisers (or fittings)

I also went a step further and talked briefly about t1 cruisers being able to defend against and or go on the offensive, it's naturally possible and quite easy if done correctly, but how many new people will understand that?

Naturally, at some point, they have to figure out some things for themselves and they will, but how many will leave before that actually happens?

I know, I know.. right now you're saying " Well we don't need them" or " Then they shouldn't here anyway" and countless other pointless comments that serve no purpose what so ever. The point here is that the "New and improved Trial account" is essentially useless in terms of bringing new blood into the game which is ccps goal.

They're a company, they need to make money.

Obligatory " Well free to play doesn't generate money lol you're stupid." comment...

It actually does when setup correctly and we see this in the majority of current mmorpgs as almost all of them have some sort of free to play model.

Insert irrelevant comment pertaining to 5 - 10 mmorpgs that don't have this model, so I can in turn link hundreds that do.

Ccp was warned about they chose to ignore it. All thr alphas are not new playera just vets creatings lots of free alts and use to bump numbers and camp.gates etc. Real bad move imo was alphas

You're funny. The first day I started playing this game was on release day, 2003. I even played the beta, did you?

I haven't been subscribed all of those 13 years but I've seen enough of what goes on ingame, and out of the game, to understand fairly well what your community is made of. For example...

Would you imagine there's a subgroup of players who enjoy pretending to befriend other gamers ingame, just to get their RL info? said info is then collected, and can be sold to others, when the befriended mark has made enemies.


"Griefing isn't allowed hurr durr" : LOL

It's what makes up the core of the gameplay, that hasn't changed in years because it can be cheesed and metagamed the hell out, with... drumroll.... alts, which have to be funded at some point : it brings revenue to CCP

Scamming/ganking/infiltrating for no reason other than Schadenfreude, "harvesting tears", is really griefing, everybody understands it who tried EvE and left saying the community is a cesspool of sociopaths.
Just because EULA frowns upon following a player for days on end, or playing mind tricks on him on voice comms until he humiliates himself (Hello Erotica1! who are your alts nowadays?), doesn't mean the ingame cheese served by New Eden Online Sociopaths Anonymous, isn't grief-centric.