Originally by: Delos Korelian

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Well, lately I have been rather lackluster about logging into eve or playing the game. I am sort of biding my time till my subscription expires on the 31st of December. I know, rather long time to wait, but that's what I get for paying in advance.

What I am really paying attention to is the Quantum Rise thread and the disaster the so called expansion is turning out to be. Most interesting is the whinage from a number of fanboys who took the party line of "Ghost Training" was "unfair "and bad for the game" are now whetting themselves there, complaining of how evil CCP is.

Someone in this thread mentioned that given time CCP will do something to upset even greater number of players, even the fan boys, and I honestly feel that this time is now. There is so much that has been completely wrung out and taken apart and put back together again in the last year, there is so much backlash at the poor customer service and communication, there seems to be too many new people running this game who simply have no clue how the game was working before, and finally, it is clear and glaring that the almighty dollar/pound/euro has completely overtaken the CCP as a company.

Where the game was created and ran by a few very idealistic individuals, with clear and very unorthodox vision for the game, we are now faced with replacements who are seeing this game as a short term cash cow, something to capitalize on as quickly as possible, and then left to limp on its own.

The short term gains of revenue has clearly overtaken the long and thoughtful approach which used to be practiced by the developer team.
More and more I see disenchantment, more and more I see people who come and go. More and more I see people lose interest in playing EVE due to the erratic behavior of the developers.

The gimmicks have replaced the content, the quantity has replaced quality, attention to the customer has been replaced by pettiness and robotic responses to the petitions. Community suggestions not listened to, a veneer of transparency created by CSM, and yet the actual player body is neutered by CCP and remains largely a show for the ignorant public.

Maybe I am just depressed that the game I loved so much, and people who ran it, whom I respected so much, is no longer the "best ever MMORPG out there," maybe I am depressed due to too many lies, too many "mistakes," too many half truths, and too many, and long ignored, issues, which are being swept under the rug, and covered up with massive verbiage with very little substance by CCP.

CCP got my money till the 31st, I can't help that, then I shall sell everything I own, drop my security status to -1.1 and place all the ISK on my head as bounty, following that I think I will be spending my hard earned money somewhere else.

Until then I will watch the developments and see what happens to this world I loved so much for so long.

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