Jita Park Speakers Corner

This is how CCP looks to a lot of the player base, past, current and future:

CCP: "Ooo let's make a game where people can scam,steal, be pirates and basically entertain themselves at others expense and let's focus on that player segment at the expense of the others!"
Trolls: "YAY!!!"

CCP: "Damn, we need to get more players into our game. Any suggestions?"
Trolls: *crickets*

There's no mystery here.

I think CCP can have their cake and eat it too with EVE but not without a fundamental attitude readjustment about their player base.

EVE is entertainment without risk and a way to spend time. The whole carebear vs nullbear conflict is foolish.

There is ZERO risk in EVE, as in zip, nada.

NOTHING in EVE can't be repaired with time except reputation.

In real life people people die once. They get fined, incarcerated, beaten and killed for what they do in EVE on a daily basis with impunity.

Fear controls many people's Real Life behavior and there is NOTHING to fear in EVE.

EVE mimics almost NOTHING about the harsh realities of real life. Real Life hits back and hits hard and hits permanently.

Why not work on a game for more people to enjoy instead of pretending piracy and ganking and 0.0 PVP is really that special or unique?



EDIT: To be clear I have no issue with scams and piracy and ganking per se, just an issue with the idea that those oppressive elements really need that much focus when CCP could just have made EVE a PVP grind if that was really what they were after. They didn't instead they made a much larger game and then mostly focused on the PVP grind when the majority of players don't entertain themselves mostly much less exclusively in PVP.

Build a big wall between null and highsec....

Some people's grasp on what's going on is sometimes hilarious.

I couldn't agree more.

Because CCP hasn't been mostly catering to 0.0 for the last eight years, amirite?

lol

I -think- that the thing which makes EVE special is rather free pvp system.

However my opinion that improving this system has gone wrong ways many times. Actual piracy has been made pretty difficult while rewards for those rare occassions you actually manage to catch something has been made pretty much 0.

Basically it seems current philosophy is that pvp should not give you any reward except killmail and should only involve fleets combined of combat ships shooting each other.

This pretty much reminds me of carebearish arena pvp games and doesn't feel fun at all. I enjoy causing losses to other people while hopefully suffering less myself. In current situtation losses don't really matter so much and you really don't get much reward for winning either, especially compared to time effort you have to put in pvp most of time. It seems to me that we're missing some excitement from whole thing.

Just playing for another battlereport doesn't seem enough to keep me playing.

*hides behind npc forum alt*

(ban npc forum alts from csm forums)

if nullbeard rager did not exist we would need to create him to fully enjoy this game

Since he just biomassed himself out of humiliation does this mean that now we do need to create him?