EVE General Discussion

Please buy more PLEX so I can play free.

Cheers.

I read the posts by CSM members and their supporters and am a bit disgusted by their attempts to take credit for hilmars blog post. When the CSM couldnt tell us anything worth a damn. And only took the side of the dissenters 3 months after the fact.

A Blog post that is, MANY MONTHS LATE.

Many months of polish to make it sound good. I want a you tube vid of fat hilmar so i can judge his TONE. Not read it and imagine he really means. It I need to SEE it. Netfilx email pissed me off enough as it was. But that email only came after a projection of that ceos decision would cost them a million subs and a huge lose in stock value.

IT was us the players unsubbing EN mass and continuing to keep the player base aware.

Icarna cost me a graphics card.


ONLY good thing about this is that they are on record as admitting they really messed up.

And it proves all the people saying the CCP protester gangs were just a minority were false.


MILLA had more to do with this blog post then anything the csm did IMO.

Edit: Ill wait to see what they do. This is just words i want the results. Im tired of the lies and double talk and double think crap they pull.

You getting mad bro ? Get out of the pulpit and into the fresh air, helps with the whole keyboard warrior syndrome.

I for one think this Blog was excellent.

For those that claim he's just saying a lot of 'I'm sorry'.. think again. He's a CEO, he blogged about the CEO level of CCP's plans. Then LINEKD TO A SECOND BLOG WHERE THERE IS MORE NITTY GRITTY ABOUT WHAT IS GOING TO BE IMPROVED.

Not vague empty promises, but real ones. There is a list of stuff there they intend to improve on. On it are several things that we've been wanting for a long long time.

Also if you read his blog, it's not just PR speak and vagaries, it's a blog of someone that finally got his head out of his other side, and admitted he was wrong.

Also, he clearly stated that the NEX store stuff is vanity stuff only, unless the industry changes dramaticly. Now think about this for a bit.
Are we moving to a Free-to-play mode, probably, however, game breaking items where real money > investment of time in a game is not something you will see in ANY successfull major MMO.
This is because of the simple principle of Mudflation. Where the old gear just becomes useless and you have to go jump 20 hoops or shell out 50 bucks for a new set of uber gear.

Wow has this problem, which is why it's slowly dieing. Eve on the other hand does NOT have this problem. Yes, we have inflation, and increase of the general wealth both in assets and money all over the game, this is normal for even a regular society, the trick is, that it is gradual, and not exponential. That there are valves and stopgaps which slow this down, and balance it.
The simple fact that Eve is still going strong 8 years after launch is proof of this.

yes, things have been wobbly, and gone a little pear shaped this summer, and they paid for that. And now we are seeing them realising this and setting a new ( better? ) course.

As such, I don't think we'll ever see Pay2Win in Eve, simply because this will be a stab right into the heart of the game. As such, I think we'll never see anything that will enhance your skill training, or gold ammo which is superior to anything that the economy produces.

I see a good future for Eve.

Have not read the blogs in OP yet, however seeing this post by a dev, essentially begging us to comment suggests that maybe CCP have finally started listening to both what the players say and what the players do.

Nah the tears would be because of one of 2 reasons

1) The recording studio is in Rens
2) He bought one of my Hulks.

Actually no, CEO's do it all the time, in larger companies they even get paid more than the GDP of a developing country to LEAVE the company after.

In fact, Himlar will be very successful after, IF WE LET CCP CRASH AND BURN, failure is a requirement to boardroom success.


The only CEO's that cry in public when apologising are the Japanese. Either because they have to appear on a gameshow infested with aligators biting them in the nuts, or being dragged down mount everest in a portaloo on TV.

Finally.......

thank you Hilmar, anyone who has had to have the realization that they are driving something to ruin should know it hurts.. bad. and It takes a good leader to then take stock and make the changes to put things right and not quit.

we all know in our minds what we want eve to be, and how good it can be, look back a couple of years and the gameplay was truly amazing. then we set down a path of wrong turns which have led us to where we are now.

but if the numbers say it's going well why stop...?

when you have a community of 500k subscriptions many of the voices seemingly screaming the warning just didnt have the support to make people listen. obviously things have changed.. the faithful players reached their breaking point. and now finally this is the first time i think we can really have some confidence that it might not be all talk. it's taken longer than it should but EVE isn't dead, no you can't have my stuff and their are good time ahead.

Please now don't think this can all be fixed by xmas, cos it can't. this needs to be a beginning of a relationship with the player base and dedicated teams looking inwards on EVE continuously to maintain balance.

now is not the time for a fix, a culture change is what we need and want CCP, don't let us down.

monk

Buying a PLEX creates a market for PLEX, which supplies CCP with more money than if you had bought a subscription. A PLEX costs $20/month but a subscription costs $10-15/month.

Learn to math.

Milla i feel sorry for you.... srsly.....

if you do not have something to say, it's better to stfu then beeing stupid...