EVE General Discussion

I disagree, they are in fact mutually exclusive.

A player controlled market cannot be such if there are back doors for CCP to artificially change things. The potential for abuse is not only really high but readily demonstrable.

The PLEX market has been bought out in its entirety before in the past. They were back to the original prices within a week.



This faux outrage in what is no doubt an attempt to bolster your name for your CSM run next year is amusing, but also pretty silly. CCP "artificially changes things" any time they change anything in a patch that affects something a player might buy, sell, or farm for money, which is pretty much every major patch. Are you going to get outraged that CCP continues to develop the game next?

Well, upon realizing the tweet I'd seen earlier in fanfest with the guy's picture that claimed it was you was, in fact, erroneous, the dude turned out to be pretty chill. Thanks for asking!

This is true. Just not in the way you are hoping for.

Your spectacular lack of insight into… well… everything EVE related, really, rather makes any such bolstering pointless and needless. Have you at least figured out if 20 is more or less than 50 yet?

Wherever they want, should they ever seed anything. But since we're talking about PLEX here, seeing isn't really a concern.


So have you learned which is larger out of 20 and 50? The rest of the problems you were having with how EVE works were just a continuation of this problem of yours…

"Gross an Inappropriate" You mean they are trying to keep the game fun and trying to keep themselves in business.

Look.

CCP has embraced Ayn Rand's warped view of a utopia created by people making decisions based on "enlightened self-interest".

In the real world, we have seen how well that works with object lessons like Somalia, Ethiopia, and to some extent Russia. The u.s is heading as fast as it can down that path with their "libertarianism = freedom" insanity.

CCP has decided if someone can corner the market on plexes, which requires something in the high hundreds of billions / low trillions, that is perfectly acceptable, even celebrated, within the Eve universe. We have dozens of acolytes of Ayn Rand rushing to defend this Eve culture as one that is "good for the game", every day on the forum, especially the ones ruthless enough to use the constructs provided by CCP to achieve a dominant position within the game.

But bottom line, the vast majority of humans, no matter how morally flawed we are as a species, recognizes that this kind of behavior should be abhorred, not celebrated. That is why Eve subs are stagnant, even falling (which CCP refuses to acknowledge as they won't release full CSM voting data). CCP has captured the full market of sick individuals that think crushing all others makes for great fun. There is not a lot of movement left in that that market segment. But on the other hand, there is large downside on driving people from the game, the ones that like to play a co-operative, or at the very least., a benign game.

As CCP continues down the path that the null sec cartels have laid out for them, CCP will learn that advertising "be the villain " might not be the best marketing strategy, sort of like New Coke was not that great.

So as you claim it was a image from twitter following you around during the pub crawl. Fascinating...
This is another reason why we needed net neutrality, now images and tweets can just wander about in the real world as they please. It's a travesty I tell you.

Either way I think my "purist" mentality is classing with the practicality of running a real economy inside a giant skinner box. That being said, where is the line?

Where does CCP say "ok this isn't something we need to get involved in" verses "OHGOD OHGOD SEED SEEEEEEED"?

If you people don't like Xenuria then don't respond into the thread. If you think the subject matter is objectionable, then provide arguments against it.

Making personality comments or sharing irrelevant Fanfest commentary.. that's a bit petty and not what I expect of somebody on CSM.

Whatever you might think of Dinsdale's opinions, at least the guy can provide a relevant response in thread.

This is a legitimate question because its been proven that CCP has directly influenced the market artificially. As gross and inappropriate as it is, it is a reality.