Zanquis
Caldari Universal Exports FOUNDATI0N
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Posted - 2008.10.14 18:51:00 -
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I am outraged by this move by CCP and its aggravated by the fact the account page is offline, and the fact they lied by telling us this was a bug for 5 years when they clearly mentioned it in their guide and it was common knowledge. A bug doesn't take 5 years to fix, period. Don't lie to me and tell me I was exploiting every time I took a break and got a long skill train out of the way while I did so.
I would not be object to this if I didn't disagree so greatly with the concept of having players pay to not progress for extended periods of time. The simple fact you have skills which can take an entire to multiple subscription periods to complete and in the whole time your character gets no actual progression is absurd. It also ****es me off that for rank 4+ skills such as Battleship IV to V (rank 5) it can take 30 days to trian, and that means I am effectively paying $15 to trian battleships from IV to V. That is unacceptable to me and while I can and do play the game in that time, I like to have some progression and while I am ok with working for it, having it transverse one or more subscription periods makes me cry fowl.
Now before this change I delt with my objections because when I took a break from EvE to play something else or for RL reasons I would simply leave a long skill train while I was gone. This actually worked to CCP's benefit because a big hurdle was jumped while I was gone and I would get excited to come back to the game and explore the new opportunities it gave me which could take months.
To say it allowed people to build characters with an inactive account is a half truth. Sure if you repeat ghost training on a careful schedule you would be able to build a character. Though for this to be real effective you needed to choose a long skill for the break, as you wouldn't be able to change training if that skill training ended during your period of inactivity. So yes it was something which could be abused, but I would say the majority of us used it in the manner which I described and it was more a lure back to the game. If your seeing a huge spike to its use I would be this comes from your use of the "Power of Two" deals where you encouraged players to have multiple accounts. If you have multiple accounts you are more likely to play one while the other trains a dreadfully long skill and rotate. If this is your problem, perhaps you should find an alternate way of dealing with it in a way which doesn't upset customers who are willing to pay $30/mo+ for your game.
In any case I know this will fall on def ears at CCP and so I have decided to vote with my wallet.
As soon as they get that bloody account page online, I am canceling both my accounts which are currently active. Will I return? I do not know, I do not like to be lied to. This is a cash grab, and I resent you calling this a bug and implying I am an exploiter for using something you put in your god damn player guide. ---------------------------------------------- EvE Personality Test
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