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Chris Stormrider
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Posted - 2008.10.14 15:07:00 -
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I convinced my gf to create an account and after playing for a month or two, RL took over. She has since been training skills on her account only. She hasn't missed a day in paying for that account. Does that mean she is ghost training or not? I fail to see how she has gained an unfair advantage over other player, but apparently she has, since she has been advancing her character because she only logs-in every month or so (and putting the servers under much pressure with her intense skill training, also causing lag in jita and in big fleet battles, giving small kids AIDS and exhaling CO2 thus: global warming)
/me shruggs
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Chris Stormrider
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Posted - 2008.10.14 15:30:00 -
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 Originally by: Ar'tee
Originally by: CCP Fallout
A long overdue and much needed change will be put in place with the Wednesday, 15 October 2008 patch. Ghost Training, the continuous skill gain on accounts in an inactive or expired state - will no longer function after Wednesday, 15 October 2008. This practice upsets the balance of our bank accounts, which frankly we can do without given the financial situation our country is currently in, and capsuleers who actively put their money into not logging into our game because training works just as well when you're logged off will no longer be unfairly affected by those few who cost us precious dollars by doing basically the exact same thing except without paying us money for it.
Fixed that statement for you.
exactly my point. if training a skill without playing is an unfair advantage we might as well get xp for doing genocide on goblins or bearded keltirs. if training a skill without paying is the problem it doesn't make much sense to me. If CCP decides to give eve for free to some people or to everyone will I protest because it's not financially sound?
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Chris Stormrider
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Posted - 2008.10.15 18:35:00 -
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fail. I don't care much (after so many of them), but it's a fail nonetheless |
Chris Stormrider
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Posted - 2008.10.17 12:35:00 -
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If you give a free dinner for every person that comes in you restaurant, it is wise to think that you can invite a friend and split the difference or take your gf out or whatever.
If you find out that they've stopped doing it (it is their right to do that, sure), you'll probably reconsider the status of the particular restaurant, as related to other restaurants and their price/quality/atmosphere etc.
People are not looking for a free meal, their looking for something that makes a product different. If you make your product the same as everybody else's then people will reconsider, which is always bad, as far as marketing is concerned, and especially bad at a time when people are cutting down on their entertainment and unnecessary expenses. Get it? Nobody said that CCP is wrong, but sometimes being wrong is better than stupid.
The point is, there's no obvious reason to do such a thing and people are feeling better with it than without it, even if they don't use it. So I say no. Nobody cares about my opinion but that's it. So here I am commenting on the subject and discussing it. I don't see why that is bad or anti-ccp or whatever.
In any case, CSM was a failure, in this matter, CCP's aproach was also a failure and the whole "our billing service is down", "look here comes a vague expansion that sounds like we've been spending too much time reading about CERN" is also a failure. Not a huge failure, mind you, but they could certainly do without.
Where does this leave us? In a state where it feels like this game is slowing down (not talking about the lag). DevBlogs come in small bursts, every 3 months or so, with little info. Big features are referring only to a small percentage every time... I dunno, it's just bad management, I'd guess.
Does it matter so much? No, not really. And that is also a fail. Because 2 or 3 years ago this would've been a bigger issue. People cared more about the game. Now, they're just finding an excuse to quit.
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Chris Stormrider
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Posted - 2008.10.24 11:17:00 -
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just my point of view, but doesn't 5% ghost training means that another 5% is currently paying (at least) 30 days of game time between ghost trains? Or do they want us to think that all these people ghost train at the same time ccp ran the numbers on their DB? in any case this 5% will pay for that account this or the next month.
as a business move it's obviously controversial (but it's their right to make it)
for me it's a fail and all the Dev blogs and interviews hasn't done much to change this
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Chris Stormrider
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Posted - 2008.10.28 13:38:00 -
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I'll be happy if this thread reaches 171 pages and become the biggest in these forums
but I don't think the people that left and are coming back, nor do I think allowing ghost training will make any difference, since it's beside the point.
also, someone losing his job over this would be also good
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Chris Stormrider
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Posted - 2009.01.07 10:27:00 -
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time for page 200 and post 6000...
go threadnought!
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Chris Stormrider
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Posted - 2009.01.12 13:05:00 -
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Well, this year seems very important for eve, with the upcoming walking in stations, tech3 and true exploration (in my preferred order, reverse release order). On the other hand, all these issues have alienated me and made me more skeptical about CCP's actions in general.
I laughed very hard on the announcement of the upcoming expansion that was as vague as could be.
I recently started doing all the lvl5 advanced training skills so, for me, that means I'm in a wait and see mode.
I'll keep my eye out for a particular MMO that should be released this month.
I hope CCP finds a way to reverse all this bad vibe, but I'm not holding my breath and no longer feel and advertise EVE as if I had stocks of CCP.
Like many trolls pointed out, it's just a game. :P |
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