EVE General Discussion

SIMPLE...

Inferno expansion is S**T! and the destruction of a USABLE inventory system...

Some morons might not admit it, but it's true and the facts speak for themselves....

ccp has given up on the EvE client and have other motives.....

I see you don't know much about Australia, Hell I have never seen snow. There is not that much difference between an Australian winter and an English summer in most of the country, except it rains less often in Australia.
As to the Kangaroos they prefer sweaters.

Thanks Rosewalker!

It's nice to ask a direct question and get a direct answer.

I think summer has some influence on the numbers, it happens to most games.

That said I also think recent events in Eve have caused many people to reconsider playing.

This years hulkageddon was a problem but I think it brought to light the vulnerability/frustration of people that prefer not to PVP. The ward dec changes also contributed to ill feelings from high sec dwellers. High sec isn't a lot more dangerous than it used to be but now people feel more vulnerable.

Add to the vulnerability the manipulation of ice, mining, and tech and null metagaming has reached high sec to an annoying degree. When a large portion of your playerbase is in high sec and as this home area feels less like home there isn't much reason to keep playing.

Toss on top of all of that the increase in prices across the board due to manipulations and changes to mineral harvesting and more people become frustrated. The increase in prices seems to have also driven up the value of plex which cuts down on subscriptions.

Next add in the frustrations with the UI changes, the seeming conspiracy behind the war dec system and the nerf to incursions.

Put all of that together and there are a lot of people in high sec that have been affected in a negative way in some shape, form, or fashion.

Then remove a lot of faith or hope that the game will get better because CCP seem to care more about the null player base and less about the high sec group. This can be seen in the drastic changes to incursions, the continuation of tech bottleneck, continuation of mining vulnerability, continuation of price inflation, continuation of war dec changes, comments from devs in favor of continued null metagaming/manipulations, lack of significant consequences for exploitation, and finally no communication regarding the future of high sec and you have a very unhappy portion of the population. A significant portion of the population in fact.

While many on the forums will respond that the game is supposed to be about PVP and null sec, there can be no doubt when you look at the population density where the player base prefers to spend their time.

If CCP continues on a course of ignoring the population base to continue with a theme of PVP for all then the only outcome will be a reduction in overall subscriptions. Eventually the tide will stem and the game will continue with a lower population, which is what some players want. I just wish the hardcore attitude could be toned down and the devs realize the game is big enough to support both PVE and PVP play without having to force people to accept PVP could happen at anytime based on someone else's whims.

For many ppl i know... This.

It was like this 9 years ago, only more brutal.

Im not saying that is problem for me, but for many hi-sec player... It is really problem. Hulkagedon for example was funny event... Now we have hulkagedon all te time so its more anoying, than entertaining (my Mining friend liked hulkagedon... Even when it was hitting him personaly, but nowe just Left game).

Ship rebalancing without breaking something is not an easy thing. Unlike other MMOs, EVE does not need constant injections of new missions to give people content.

Been doing fine for 9 years doing what they are doing now.

No, they don't. Eve is based around player interaction, not ai interaction. What CCP needs to do (and are doing) is improve the tools for said player interactions and add new ones. PvE in eve is a way of making isk. And it should remain relatively boring in order to discourage the players from doing too much of it. Having more players that are only interested (or even mainly interested) in pve is bad for the game.