
Komoran
Gallente Most Wanted INC G00DFELLAS
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Posted - 2008.07.29 19:45:00 -
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Dear Ccp
I have been playing video games for more than twenty years now, some friends call me addict, others like to share my addiction. All types of games except football/train/yaddayaddayadda managers. As I was getting older so did the industry and my taste shifted towards particular genres. Two of wich are role playing games and space sims. For more than two years now Eve Online has been my favourite game. First year was tough and a waste of money/time compared to second one. Why? I needed a year to get a hang of it, to find right ppl to play it with and to completly fall in a (platonic) love with it and fun it can offer. A year to reduce playing hours into something that suits human being, to figure out what I can, cant and must do in various situations to come on top, a year to get in that place where every rookie wants to be when he undocks for the first time..
Let me describe my Eve gameplay. I log on to ts, throw hails and log on to Eve. I look after what needs to be done for corp and its members, talk, laugh, exchange news... Doing the moving, earning isk and getting all logistics done is 30-40% of my playtime, rest is pvp. More accurately, roaming in small/medium nano gang, poking around the big space holding alliances and picking for a fight by ganking their ratters. For last year been doing that with some of the best scouts and FCs in game. We can't take space from them, we get just what we want, thrill of the kill and little blue flashes on the screen.
Will I be able to do that after this allout game shift towards blobs? Do I have to spend 100% or 150% more time earning isk so I can roam for less amount of time than before? Join someone who holds space? Will You remove npc regions at some point? Is running of two clients something that will become standard in playing this game? I had only one for 2 years and it was enough. Do You really have to change a game mechanic in a way no one is using it anymore, ever? Do You think that EvE pvp needs to let go the elite taste of few shooting on many? I'm not talking about snakes, i'm talking about t2, 3% and bunch of people that know what is what in this game. Shifting towards something that is more suiting to new player, gradualy increasing their number? I will try to understand. We live in strange times. Or was last 2 years waste of time for me? Becouse You will keep doing this with every game feature that "works" in my gameplay/style/...? Shifting towards whole new gameplay, babysteps or giant 7 league ones, end of it is removing my gameplay. Can't say if small gang pvp is really dead for sure or not. But from where I'm standing it looks like it's in coma caused by DD, bubbles and blobs, 3rd party bleep bleep bleep pieces of (insert appropriate term) and god knows what else.. Can You people be so kind and stop changing the game in a way I need to put more time into it to get some fun out of it? Who is your target consumer/audience?
So let me tell You what will happen if this goes on: gonna play untill I run out of isk, after that I'll just spend time on something else. Not gonna recycle char, sell account. Not gonna be mad. Just gonna hibernate, and peek a bit when u send me that 2 weeks free gameplay time. Sun is brightest after a worst rain and thunderstorm afterall, sometimes...
thanks for the fun You made possible,
Yours Komo |