Originally by: Mora Makur

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Originally by: Daelin Blackleaf

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Still no response to people asking why CCP felt it necessary to sugarcoat the truth, that this is a financial decision, with the falsehood, this is a bug.

Even from an immoral point of view I can't see the sense in it. I can see no reason to lie as an aside when your telling the truth about the heart of the matter to a discerning audience who are quite capable of seeing straight through this kind of thing.

This is terrible PR, and I worry that CCP may just decide to cancel this change to placate the masses while never providing an explanation as to why they felt the need to so blatantly misrepresent the facts.

Also: What made Torfi Frans Olafsson think for a second that we wouldn't notice this immediately? Does he really think, having been with the company since before launch, that the community is that stupid.

The whole thing is really quite depressing because I've always been a huge fan of CCP itself and things like this are eroding my trust in what I still consider to be the best MMO company out there.

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Why is this so definitely a 'financial decision'? I find the balance issue perfectly reasonable. People were exploiting a 'feature' in order to obtain hard to get skills. I find it very odd, that people so easily dismiss the balancing issue, and so adamantly decree that this can only be a purely 'financial decision'.

If anything, I think this was both a 'financial decision' and a balance decision. I think the feature was there to begin with as a sort of leniency for those who wouldn't constantly subscribe their accounts, but it was never meant to be utilized actively as a manner of advancing a characters skills, which people were increasing doing. That was 'unfair' to people who actually paid, and I appreciate it. It became a financial decision where the overhead of maintaining offline skilling became significant.

I appreciate the initial leniency, but people exploited a nice feature, and now its gone. The exploiters have only themselves to blame for this. I'm sorry to those who can't afford to subscribe constantly, but at least your inactive accounts will still be there should you decide to come back. Maybe those with multiple accounts will reduce to one, and I think that provides for a much better gaming experience full of choices. If you do not decide to come back to the game, then I wish you all a happy future gaming experience.

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