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Well, this pertains somewhat to the patch review subsection of these forums, but mostly I have something to say and figured this spot gets the most attention.

My account is up in a few days, and I see no reason to renew it.

For those of you who seemingly have nothing better to do other than prowl the forums in search of people to belittle for their views or opinions, I really dont care if you flame this, this is aimed towards those that maintain this game.

I have played this game almost since it's release, and yes I played the beta. Up untill recently, it has trapped my attention and kept me interested enough to be worth spending mymoney and time on. Recently (and I mean before Castor as well as after) I have experianced a growing feeling of mistreatment. Sure, the Dev teams works hard to fix bugs and figure out how the game progresses, but do we the consumers have any kind of say in this? Truley folks, hear me out. Yes I know some ideas make it into the drawing board, and yes occasionally they have changed things players didnt like. But does our collective voice have any true impact on our GM's? In my opinion, no.

It is my thought that the maintainers of this game do not know how to run a MMOG. Yes, new content is vital, but so also is customer satisfaction. If the people aren't happy, and I mean -lots- of them, then something is wrong. If you take all the posts since Castor, I would have to say the majority are not pleased. Some are just grinding their teeth, but otehrs make points that should be addressed. Enough people have voiced out they do not like many of the changes that have been made, but have they done anything about it? No. Instead many of these valid outcries are picked apart and flamed by those afforementioned folks on these forums who liek to do so, and I think the Devs mostly listen to the ones picking us apart, rather than those being picked apart.

An example, tech 2. it's release 'heralded' a new stage in eve, yet have we seen anything yet? how long has it been since castor and the relsease of RD agents, and how long have some people been acruing RD points for no apparent gain? So far we have taken all these hits in gamelay and satisfaction over t2, and we have seen none of it.

This game has gotton infinatly easier for the pirate, and oppositly difficult for the law-abiding citizen. It is no longer truely cost-effective to attempt to make your isk through hunting npc pirates, as all planetary ruined station/mining facility spawns are dead, and to find those pirates, you must seek out pirate infested 0.0 space and face rediculously powerfull packs of them. Now mining and agent missions are the only true paths left, and Mining as been so gutted in efficiancy without searching through the above death-fields to find worthwhile minerals that it is no longer a truley effective field. Agent missions are so repetitive atm, with only 3 types in-game atm, that they are boring. Tryingt o get a level 2 agent from scratch is a process akin in fun-factor to pulling out all the hair on one's head with tweezers.

All this time our pleas for change fall on seemingly deaf ears. The Devs have their plan for how the game will progress, and we can either 'adapt or quit' to coin a phrase I frequently see on the forums. In my eyes, this is NOT a sentiment that is condusive to customer-satisfaction. Frankly, at this point I dont think they care whether we'r happy or not, just if we arent ****ed enough to quit and take our money elsewhere. Well, I am. Dissapointed that I have no true voice to the makers of the game, Angry that they have the audacity to so blatantly show such disregard for player feelings, and surprised that so many people are content to sit back and allow them to do whatever they want with no care on how we feel about it.

Thats it. I'm done. I have sad what I came to say, and resign my thread to the tender mercys of my peers, those who agree, those who disagree, and those who will vehemently, sarcastically, and vicously renounce what I have said. May the makers pay heed to my words.

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