Decker Mourn
DS Industries
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Posted - 2008.10.16 18:11:00 -
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Edited by: Decker Mourn on 16/10/2008 18:12:53
 Originally by: Lord Fitz
Originally by: Decker Mourn
I find the number of players complaining that they can't improve their characters for free to be pretty funny. I bet these same people quit WoW for six months and came back expecting to have leveled to 60 while on cruise control.
That's not what they're complaining about.
a) the amount that they can train is limited One skill trained per account. Same way its been since the beginning.
b) they have to PAY to get that improvement Heaven forbid you have to pay for the game you're supposedly playing!
c) it will have a negative impact on CCPs finances (and not just from these people who do quit, but from all those who do not resubscribe because they lost that incentive). So not playing the game was an incentive to play the game?
d) These people don't play WoW. Or if they do, they certainly won't be playing Eve again. If having to pay for the right to play and grow on the game bothers them that much, thats a shame.
e) Eve is not in ANY way comparable to WoW, doing so just makes you look stupid. Go back to WoW. EVE and WoW are both MMOs that happen to use different faces. And a negative opinion doesn't make it a correct one.
f) The players 'complaining' have probably almost all spent more money on Eve than the average Eve player. Apparently not if they cancelled their accounts in order to get ahead.
g) Anyone who did use this, will now find their char is worth more as a result of the change. Hey, you found an upside to all this!
h) CCP are deliberately or negligently lying about the reasons for this change I thought they were pretty honest about it. Enough people were doing it that they felt it wasn't fair for paying customers to be supporting nonpaying customers. They may have tried to fluff it a little, but it was pretty obvious it was about the money.
i) The notice given was pathetic. Correcting a bug (which this was, regardless of how long it took for them to fix it) doesn't even really need a warning. Really would have been funny if people reactivated their subscriptions in four months and found their skill hadn't budged, huh? At least there was a warning.
j) It is a FEATURE which was deliberately put in the game, it is NOT a feature of the Chinese version that launched years ago with an almost identical code base, so if it was unintended they could have with no effort 'fixed' it at that time. Just because they chose to leave it until now doesn't make it a "feature". It makes it a bug that they felt wasn't doing harm to others at the time. Enough stuff seems to break around here, why bother with things that aren't critical?
k) It was advertised in the player guide, the forums, and word of mouth to other players. And now it won't be. Life goes on.
But no, just reduce it to 'whining that they can't get something for free' and you show the level of consideration required to be employed at CCP.
Personally I would rather they put the subscription cost up, I don't mind paying more for the game, I think the impact this will have on the server population and CCP's finances are far worse than any impact it will have on me. (It's not going to affect me 'directly').
Now, I'll have to admit, you are correct about one thing; I show a level of consideration. It just happens to be for someone besides myself. If you want to improve your character, play the game. If you feel that its unfair that other players pay for the game so that your character can get its Amarr Dreadnaught V or whatever skill you were ghosting... bummer.
Oh, and nearly forgot. The reason its called a "free expansion" is because you aren't paying forty bucks to pick it up in the store or to download it from the website. Feel pity for all those WoW players who are fixing to have to shell out 30-50 bucks per computer for their new update on top of paying this month's fee.
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