In playing your part as human merchandise under CCP's carefully planned out RL profit-making scheme, ie:

-PLEX.
-Bots.
-Limitless alt system.

Im curious, does CCP maintain a scpecific horde of players ingame farming Plex for them which they sell back to their playerbase?

Isn't this entire circle, at the same time detrimental to the game and its playerbase as ingame prices rise and 0.0 alt corps take over entire regions, blobing with 30+ capfleets and Titan bridges every single time...

Hmm?
Where is this all really going CCP?
To make as much pride in money before planet earth burns to a crisp from our mutual contempt, greed and stupidity?

So, let us make this thread the official congratulate CCP on their ruthless and cynical attitudes to life, like the good ponzies they are.

*claps slowly*

Well sure who cares...

And I suppose, never in a million years would you ever consider yourselves capable of buttraping your own kids as well.

And I suppose, never in a million years would you ever consider yourselves capable of buttraping your own kids as well.

wut?

You accept this condition you're in under the pretense of playing a sci-fi game, but they have you by the balls haven't they?

I pay $15 a month for a Space Ship Video Game.

I did of know I was getting a web of paranoia and conspiracies with it.

Such a great value.

Probably relevant to the OP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udNHsk57f24

/my balls are cradled gently between the loving hands of my wife, Morgan Fairchild. But thanks for asking.

I used to believe in corporate conspiracy theories like you......then I took an arrow to the knee

You still pay for this game every month?

lol

but they have you by the balls haven't they?

Of course.

I don't feel the need to have 10+ accounts to be good, Alara is fine.

I don't have to farm up Plex, I decide when I play and when I don't.

If $15 is to much for that is kinda sad.

Yes they have the awesome power to make me stop paying and go play another game at anytime.

Multiply that ammount by active subscribers per year.
Add it to legal realmoney Plex buyers per year.
Add it to unofficial realmoney Plex buyers per year.

Compare total ammount with CCP's annual expenses.

Just enough to keep Eve running and ingame prices rising?

Or just enough for obscene company profits.

You see and decide. Good luck.

Or just enough for obscene company profits.

You think this is a bad thing.

I play because I enjoy EVE. Do you not enjoy EVE?

If they want to profit of this game that is fine with me.

As long as they continue their new trend to fix broken mechanics which they are doin I am perfectly happy to enjoy EVE.

If they fail to to so I will quit.

If you see deeper meaning in this then feel free to leave as I did after Incarna.

They made it so it would be an enjoyable, complex and longlasting experience,

whilst in the meantime, they use you and treat you like oil merchandise to fund private gains,

which you end up paying for with your time and money.

You think they gave a **** about you from the begining? Hell no, this is capital.

Their profits were so obscene they recently had to fire 20% of their staff to stay in business. Or is that also a part of your conspiracy theory?

Dude, step away from the bong, or start passing it around.

So it is a good game.

Of course they do I am giving them money.

Money yes, my time is of course my own. I use it to enjoy EVE.

Of course not they are a business. Do you demand a hug from every store clerk? If the product does not meet the quality of fun I demand they find out how little a **** I give about them. They are just entertainment.

Their is no problem here. Make the game fun and I will pay them. Don't do that and I won't. Not going to expect them to play happy grab ass with me while they do it.

A natural thing to happen when you grow and invest too large in effect...on expensive things the majority of your playerbase doesn't give a **** about...

You will get no argument from me on that specific concept, I all but predicted as much a few years ago in the old forums, and railed at CCP for buying Whitewolf, and trying to build 3 games making us the paying beta testers for one of them using the revenue of just EVE subscribers.

But, they finally learned maybe, the hard way. We'll see what they do vs what they say they will do.

Pfft they don't need people farming PLEXes, they just need players dumb enough to fly them in a cargo to anywhere.

And btw if you were to consider the size of CCP, give each one of them a salary, and then you apply all of the other costs for offices, utilities, and the costs of running the servers and hosing special events, CCP really does have a fairly tight budget.

$15 x 12 months x 300,000 accounts = $54 million annually
580 ppl x $80k yearly salary on avg = $46.4 million annually
that's only 7.6 million to spend on things like Fanfest, hosting alliance tournament, super interwebz bandwidth, offices and utilities for said offices in 4 locations around the globe, server maintenance and upgrades, etc etc

And that's AFTER the 20% layoff, so CCP is running tight