EVE General Discussion

Why didn't you tank your Hulk.

WHY?

Dangit, i can't bold and underline that sentence more.

npc corp highsec miners are literally giving you valid fitting advice

Only you need to agree if it's about ganking.

Basically, the people that decide such things don't agree with you.

So they're wrong.

Well it's CCP that provides access to the game and makes the rules and they say you sir are incorrect.

Well known if you keep track of such things, perhaps.
I am a casual gamer with disposable income. Believe it or not, the largest segment of MMO revenue is from just such gamers.

I don't read EVE news. I don't follow the EVE forum.

The first I head of hulkageddon was AFTER I was killed today. And then my reaction went from "oh well" to "why the heck doesn't CCP realize the impact of their inaction". Hence the post.



Yet every month a greater risk is incurred as to the age of the game and the resonance within the eventual total revenue opportunity. You can only market your growth to a certain point. Instead, CCP has been far more successful with a combination of marketing and innovation.

Those can be expensive avenues, particularly if you choose to aggravate your existing paying customers through ignoring something like this.

You guys like new developments in the game? They have to be paid for. Superfan subscriptions alone are insufficient to sustain the resources that go into engineering on multiple continents.



Had I not given the background, you would be accusing me of living on the game and/or in my parent basement. I prefer being attacked for my success.

Further, you can afford to disparage the casual gamer segment and its thoughts. Its $15 a month to you. CCP cannot. Every tenth of a percent in subscriber turnover affects either future development funding or operating income. Eventually that becomes jobs.


Actually thats only one attitude about what it is. And even only one facet of how its advertised. Its also been advertised about being a universe where you can do anything. Make a career that you want. Play the game that you want.



Actually you miss the point. Casual gamers with disposable income is where the revenue comes from. They tend to be short lived subscriber base so they require marketing to keep the flow. Yet those who stick around are often the kind who will pay for upgrades in the form of PLEX, etc.

CCP knows this. Anyone with MMO development / engineering experience knows the segmentation of revenue. Realizing that there are subscribers whose revenue impact can be lost by ignoring such dynamics as Hulkageddon creates is a quick path to declining revenue.

It's like ratting.

Now we know how those rats feel. Or not "we" rather but "the miners that get ratted".

Exactly.

I built the fit when i was in a corp with air cover for mining operations. I didnt modify the fit because in the handful of years since I never needed to and was not seriously threatened in high sec. Organized initiatives to violate the gameplay elements of high-sec excepted, of course.



Because I don't have or want one. The wife I have and the child we have together is more than sufficient for me. Make fun if you like. Many wish for as much as I have. I recognize the blessings I have and its important to understand where the perspective is coming from.



If it were in low sec, I would have to agree with you. I have previously lost a freighter because I took a short cut through .3 space. That was my fault. I made a decision to do something stupid. When you allow people to organize a competition of violating the guidelines established to setup an entire sector of gameplay that is a different matter altogether.



True but in the end it would not have mattered, I don't think. I also didn't align to a starbase or anything which I probably should have done as well. I learned several lessons from this. I also started to think about just killing off the multiple accounts I have. Something that others appear to have done before me. At a certain point when an executive asks "why did we lose 2% of our playerbase that we were unable to recover through marketing last month?" hopefully someone understands that inaction in the face of such events may be part of the answer.