EVE General Discussion

I've recently learned of these "Content Packs" that CCP has begun selling-for real cash.

As I recall, the INcarna riots of 2011 were triggered over those golden monocles which were being sold at outrageous prices.

As I recall, CCP swore they would never assume the path of real-money transactions, but these content packs look an awful lot like exactly that.

I'd like my fellow capsuleers thoughts on the matter.

They are just the same sort of newbie package that has always been available for years and years and years.
Also incarna riots were not triggered over the Golden Monocles.

The little remind you.
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The Amarr monument still stands.

I'm sorry to see you've contracted CAM's disease. Have no fear a space wambulance is on the way.

can I haz your stuff ??

Nope, the summer of rage was triggered by many things, the $1000 pants post, Greed is Good, a flat dismissal of player concerns of p2w items being the next step and a refusal to address them, no opt out for the CQ and the wasting of months of development to deliver what was a dingy by the hour motel room that had a nasty habit of turning graphics cards into small furnaces with no gameplay options, etc, etc.

They did, then they gave us Incarna. We've settled for no p2w.

They're not p2w, any advantage they offer is temporary and restricted to new accounts.

I thought my subscription was a real money transaction.

My bank balance will be all the better now if it isn't.

OP, RMT is not a term that applies to CCP, the same as it applies to us. They are perfectly within their rights to charge real money for their products and services. Just we aren't.

the "content" packs, oh come on, the career agents hand out more free stuff than any of the content packs give.

If you're listening, CCP, I'd gladly buy these. I have no sympathy for those who define "winning" as their number of skill points, i.e. limited purely by how long they have been playing a certain character. That definition of winning is an impossible bar to new players and can't be helping new player retention.

Oooohhh the videos... eh. I have a "skirmisher", well, 5weeks training into breacher pilot like the breacher in the vid. No way in hell I'm throwing "skirmisher" my alt against a bunch of pirate faction ships. Dude, CCP, quit doing this false advertising junk to hook newbies on dreams. You'll just get commented on youtube by honest EVE players making you look like fools. Knock it off! EVE is good enough to not need all this false crud.


And rlly?!? you're advertising PI?
Time to fire the advertising/promo crew
CCP fishing for future ragequitters?

At least they got the Explorer vid right, since they totally newbified exploration some time back. Broken clock gets it right twice a day. -1 CCP


Yeah OP, I don't think it's right. I don't care about the package and cost, just the advertising (as CAM brought up) is over the top. Worse was like on the website with "bounty hunter career" couple years back, yeeaaaaaahh.... :/

Really, this game is good enough to not need to stretch the truth. Send your advertising team back to school, or into the corner with a dunce cone on their heads.