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Posted - 2012.04.17 17:15:00 -
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Kattshiro wrote:Poor business plan to only cater to people that have 6 - 8 hours a day to blow on a game.
You can in fact have content for both groups...
I think you miss understand the small holdings claim...rather make null sec more accessible to smaller corps or people besides having to hold space or be in a uber alliance. (Exploration, null indie etc)
I was just saying the same thing in another thread. Eve is indeed a sandbox and arguably the best sandbox game available for quite some time. The only reason 9 years later I still play is that I CAN decide to PVP in a group 1 year, and then take a break and do some PI or invention/manufacturing, or god forbid even spank some roids for production. I even took a small break but still logged in to play the market, buying low and selling high.
Diversity is a good thing IMHO. It's when a MMO caters to one group at the expense of another where the issue comes in, and lost subs, etc. The large divide between all out PVP/POS bashing and the rest of Eve (Mining, missions, production, invention, etc) is what prevents more folks from playing, IMHO.
Here's a RL example. If in the US all we had as a choice of occupation was the military to fight and take ground, who would be producing the basic and non-basic things you need to survive when you're not on the field ? Arguably, someone has to do that perceived menial task of mining, producing ships/ammo/equipment, and managing items on the market. If you didn't have that element of player, given how Eve's economy now runs, eventually the hard core PVPers wouldnt have any ships to replace the shinies they lost and eventually no one would fight since the cost of losing would be prohibitive.
Just something to consider there. I too for a time in the early years of the game looked down on production and the like until I tried it and realized that the guy geeking around in his little high-sec POS producing ammo was just as valuable as me and my corporation going around blowing up space and claiming ground.
My 2 cents,
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