EVE General Discussion

EDIT: The thread is not about removing the clothes store - itys about removing AURUM and placing ISK prices

As everything seems to be going in the good direction I think there is one last thing CCP has to do to clean up the bad image it managed to develop recently.

REMOVE AURUM

This one is really bad. It is like a thorn in a finger. It does not allow me to get immersed in the world of EVE - I still get the feeling that all this show with "CCP starting to listen to players" is just a show to raise sub numbers. That it is not a "return to old values and visions" - it is all about profit again.
Now I know that some may say that it's what the companies are about - making profit. I tend to disagree... or at least I think THIS company also has a vision, a goal. Or is "the need to profit" the only thing left really?

I joined up back in 2005 - there was a one comfortable subscription plan and the promise to always get all the features. One fee - access to everything on equal terms. I always happily payed this fee because CCP employes were doing a honest and good job of entertaining me. This concept became endangered when CCP came up with the idea of EVE Voice - something that was supposed to be a feature for which we would have to pay extra money.
I watched carefuly and considered quitting but stayed when it was decided that it will get included into normal subscription plan.

Now came the AURUM. And it did what the EVE Voice almost did - destroyed the comfort of being in this elite club. We are no longer the PLAYERS - the other important side in the developement of the game - we became the COWS to be milked. I took part in the Jita uprising and then quit the game.

I am back now because of the recent..."show". I really want to play this game and pay a monthly sub until i get old and die. But the NEX store is still there. AURUM is still there. And it is pointing out its finger at me and laughing. At us...

Why microtransactions? Why P2W or P2P? These are not the attributes of a MMO whose player base is growing up!! It happens when the game is dying FFS... Do not tell us pretty stories about changing market, we are not stupid. Pretty stories lead to subscription numbers drops in EVE. Only intelligent people (okay lets say mostly) play EVE. We dont buy it. Your playerbase have more IQ than any other MMO - this is your advantage that will keep you going where others will collapse.

So please get rid of this AURUM crap. Change everything to ISK and focus on what you are best at... you guys at CCP. At your vision... and you will always have us players backing you up with all of our hearts... and subscriptions...


What say you?

but i like my Oden occular implant.

I always respected CCP for being original and different. The sandbox of EVE is the coolest thing in online gaming imo.
The moment AUR was introduced I lost almost all of that respect I had for CCP. AUR doesnt belong in the sandbox and it definitely doesnt belong in a subscription based game.

Now, Hilmar has said that this is the direction the industry is going into and that CCP must keep up which is why AUR and MT is so important. Maybe he really does believe that and it's not just an excuse, but CCP used to be original and they used to be different.
They should be that way right now and get AURUM the h*** out of EVE as soon as possible. This is their last chance. It's not too late just yet.

I dont know about everyone else but ever since this MT business started I havent looked forward to the next alliance tournament or the next fanfest. I'm no longer proud to be an EVE player instead of being the player of just another MMO because EVE is not that different anymore. Kind of like noticing someone original and deep has suddenly become just another boring a**hole.

gawd I hope not. We'll have to pay our own subs and their subs too?

If there was a demon perched above my bed I would most definitely want to get rid of it instead of just ignoring it.
And by this I mean, when something really sucks, it's much better to remove it than just let hang around and pretend it's not there.

Stop making these threads

You won't convince a company that fired twenty percent of their staff to make less money

If NO one uses AURUM, then who cares if it is in the game.

If however you want Nex items in exchange for killing rats, you can get them, convert PLEX.

What's the issue?

Honestly it is better to leave AURUM in the game, there is a much higher chance for it to be ignored this way.

But I like my shirt, and goggles but thats on a different jump clone.

I like Aurum, I don't want it removed. You can buy most microtransaction items for isk anyway and it has zero effect on gameplay.

we must remember, ccp said a bit more than a year ago, that they would never implement microtransactions, so take everything ccp says with 2.5 grains of salt