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Thanks for finally stepping up and taking responsibility. Being able to admit some mistakes were made and repeatedly made is important.

Is the most encouraging quote in a long time.

However, I am still not convinced that you realize fully where the mistakes were made. I'll take my time to point out what concerns remain even after this blog.


This worries me. How will you make sure those "experienced industry professionals" will maintain the uniqueness of EVE? Or is this a guarantee that we will end up with more managers completely out of touch with the community and the game they are actually creating?

Could you elaborate on that? What mistake was made? Was too much pressure put on the teams or were too few resources allocated to EVE?

[continued in another post due to forums, and yes they bloody ate my first post ]

7 or 8 years plus change and I'm still playing this game. Nearly half my life, and EVE's so common everyone in my family except my mother plays it to some degree.

I am pleased to see this declaration, and I think results will bring about a reinvigorated faith in the company. Not everything will go perfectly, but acknowledging that clearly for everyone to see is a big thing.

One of three account expired last week and I put it on the shelf. In the next 7 days another will expire and it also is going on the shelf. The last of the three accounts expires towards the end of the month, and it too shall go on the shelf.

You have proven quite strongly that what you say is not what I should be concerned with, but with what you do. Rewarding more PR wordsmithing , smoke and mirrors with my subscription money is NOT what is going to occur.

I'll be rewarding another developer of a sci-fi MMO that launches soon with my subscription money for the next year or two. Though I doubt it, maybe by that time your actions will reflect the shallow promises made recently. At that time I will evaluate if CCP deserves to be rewarded with my support and subscription.

I honestly don't expect that I'll be back though, I still get the overall impression that you are still vastly disconnected from what your playerbase wants to see occur.

Much respect. Less bittervet, more Eve addict once more.

nice blog lets keep this direction going and we can make eve great again

Maybe it's my age-induced cynicism playing up again, because as I was applauding what appeared to be a very brave and welcome post, I started to wonder what might have moved him to write it.

Could it have been, for example, that someone had just dropped a report on his desk, showing that significantly more subscriptions were being allowed to expire than were being renewed? If that was the case, the blog is a very astute business move, albeit one of a limited range of options open to him.

Maybe I should stop "looking a gift horse in the mouth" and just see how it goes.

If he is true to his word, everybody wins. :)

i was starting to think that i am getting a bit gey :->

Hillmar is so going to get a beer from me on fanfest, **** it, you all are going to get a beer from me on fanfest, if this stuff happens!

"In short, my zeal for pushing EVE to her true potential made me lose sight of doing the simple things right."

Well, that's just a crock of ****.

"But we found a way because EVE is something unique in the world."

That's a helluva non sequitur.

"Removing ship spinning was a negligent oversight ..."

That's just not true. It was a deliberate, conscious decision that faced lots of vocal opposition well before it was executed.

"Let me be blunt: Unless the MMO business changes radically, our virtual goods strategy for EVE Online will remain limited in scope and focus on vanity items, or as we said after the CSM visit this summer: The investment of money in EVE should not give you an unfair advantage over the investment of time."

Let me be blunt: Get rid of aurum. No MT other than PLEX. Weasel-wording about 'unfair' advantages isn't any more palatable now than it was 3 months ago.

"... we had to take these first steps because monthly subscriptions are increasingly becoming a thing of the past."

More like monthly subscriptions increasing has become a thing of the past.

"If we don’t evolve our technology, our game design and our revenue model, then we risk obsolescence, and we just can’t allow that to happen to EVE or to our community."

Bullshit. Your old revenue model works just fine. That's why EVE is your 'golden goose.'

"EVE will be more personal, and thus more accessible to general audiences."

Do not want.

"In 2007, we faced a similar crisis of confidence, and it resulted in the creation of the CSM. We’re a better company because of it."

The CSM is a joke and other than CSM V always has been. Why are you still pretending otherwise?

"I need to do a better job of pursuing that vision without diluting or marginalizing the things that are great—or could be great—about the game right now."

No, jefe, not 'without diluting'. You need to focus on excellence, like we've been telling you for years.

Thanks for that blog Hilmar: because it gives hope and perspective again to us the players and also because it certainly has been hard for you to travel the path of changing your mind and admitting mistakes as you do.

I don't know if all you dream are possible but at least I feel like I'm willing to take and try the journey with CCP again !