HarrytheBarstool
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Posted - 2008.10.14 00:30:00 -
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Edited by: HarrytheBarstool on 14/10/2008 00:34:48
Edited by: HarrytheBarstool on 14/10/2008 00:33:03
Now for all us thick donkeys  here's a translation from google ...
As many of you know by now, on Wednesday, Oct 15th, CCP will put out a server update disabling "ghost training". Ghost Training was a feature where unpaid accounts of EVE Online were able to continue training skills. While this allowed players to run multiple characters on a shoestring budget, in all effect, this lost us money.
It should be noted that we're not changing offline skill training for active subscribers in any way. This change only affects those who do not have an active subscription.
Does that mean that CCP is a greedy money chewing monster that just loves nerfing things? Of course it does. We're a company like everyone else, we make a game, that we happen to love making and for most of us is the passion of our lives. But it's also a company that is here to make money from poor suckers like you. We make a product, sell it, get salaries and then continue maintaining the product and making it slightly better or worse.
Now I'm saying that if me personally was at the other end of this Dev Blog I wouldn't be ****ed by CCP's actions because i make stupid amounts of money. We are gamers. We game the system. We figure out how to maximize our profits while shafting the ppl who pay our wages. There's no surprise that people have done this for the simple fact that it wasn't banned per se and also for the fact that we put that feature in. But recently we have seen a small increase in this behavior in a way that we were essentially supporting and maintaining a large number of customers that weren't paying us regular subscriptions. That's not on for CCP as a service provider.
Now a single customer that doesn't log into the servers does not weigh heavily on our database infrastructure, just as a single snowflake isn't that heavy, hardly a measurable quantity. But it's hard not to notice an avalanche if it hits you. And that's what was starting to happen in our database.
We can look at this from a variety of angles, but it all comes down to:
1. We remembered about a feature we could make more money from
2. CCP noticed a loss in subs. and decided to fix the leak
3. Players now have to pay us more for characters to have them progress
We truly hope that the community will not leave in droves through our shameful money grabbing actions and continue to enjoy playing EVE as much as we enjoy making more money from it.
Torfi Frans Olafsson
Senior Producer of EVE Online
Next time use google online bullshit translator as recommended by HarrytheBarstool.
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