EVE General Discussion

CCP is a for-profit company, meaning they don't just exist to make money, but to make the most money possible.

This means appealing to as wide a rage of the potential market as possible. Hard-core gamers that want to just run wild blowing up everyone in sight, have to co-exist in a non-sharded universe with the casual farmville players. Too many restrictions, the hard core gamers will quit. Not enough restrictions, the farmville types will quit.

PVPers roam low sec for hours and find no targets. System after system is empty or everyone docks up the moment they show up. Then they go to high sec and see 100s or even 1000s of players. Oh, if only they could shoot all these people. Hint, if you could shoot them, they wouldn't be there. They'd be off playing a different game where they won't get shot.

At the same time, it is the boom that drives the market. Too many carebears and not enough boom, suddenly there is a glut of everything and no demand.

( Well, since prices of T1 have basically doubled in the last year since meta 0 loot was removed, that does not seem to be the problem. Perhaps missioning is too profitable, dumping too much ISK into the game? Well, missioning is way less profitable now. Loot gone, cost of ammo up, and the stuff you buy with the ISK has doubled in price.)

Make PVP less painful. Heck, with insurance, it already is pretty painless for t1 fits.... And still poeple were self-destructing ships for the insurance instead of PVPing to lose them for the insurance. How do you make it less painful than ships selling at insurance value? Have insurance pay for the fit too?


I actually think CCP has done a pretty good job of providing areas for everyone. IF I could change a few things it would be.

1) No BS in high sec. Want to run L4s in high sec, do it in a BC, or better a group of BC.
2) No caps in low sec. Give a place for young, sub-cap corporations to set up and play around as they build and get ready for 0.0 without worrying about caps getting dropped on them.
3) no super caps above -.5

lol new people

CCP doesn't have a balance problem, players do.

This is where you went wrong.

A company printing books in Braille won't throw out all their equipment and buy new printing presses just to start printing regular books to "appeal to as wide market as possible". They have their own niche, their set of customers, and they make money by trying to appeal to this community the best they can.

It's the same with CCP, they designed EVE to be a unique game, catering to a specific minority of gamers: those that want a harsh player-driven universe where choices have consequences, and interaction with other people is more important than grinding NPCs.

Asking CCP to change the game to your own liking because you think you can make economic decisions for them is just like coming to a Braille bookstore and asking them to sell you regular books.

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Excellent response !

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Not quite.

CCP makes a product and just like in the real world that product might not appeal to everyone.

Let's take a better example: Marmite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite). Some people love it, others hate it.

But one thing is for sure; the company that makes Marmite cannot change it too much to satisfy the haters without risking losing the lovers.

Sure, they could make a different product that appealed to the haters but the fact remains that they cannot change their original product too drastically without weighted risk of failure.

if you are making a decent profit, that is all that matters. being for profit doesn't mean you have to price gouge or sell out.

We can shoot them, at least until CCP releases EVE Online: Trammel.

Nice post.

I agree wth some of the above posts, trying to appease everyone is a mistake. The game should play to it's niche and become the most awesome thing of it's kind, not another thing of a generic kind.

People play the game because it is awesome, CCP's goal is to make it as awesome as possible, that is way to make the most money, not farmville players.

I can't tell you how many people I have encountered in this game that openly say they have NO interest in PVP. It doesn't matter the mechanics, they aren't going to do it.

Look, what is the fun of PVP? To prove you are the better player? Okay, cool.

But, what if you know you are not the better player, and have no desire to attempt to get better. You have no desire to constantly prove that you suck. You are just looking to log in for an hour or two, three times a week or so, do some mining or missioning with friends, maybe make enough ISK for a PLEX so you can play for free.

This is a huge chunk of the player base, and those people aren't going to 0.0, regardless of the mechanics.