Out of Pod Experience

Goons have thrown over a quarter of a million US dollars at Star Citizen so far, including one who put 11k in himself.

And yet you're still here, exactly proving my point.

Well that's a point that can be open to discussion as in the early years, i was actively playing the game pratically every day of the week, with tons of objectives to hit and the same goes for skills needing to be trained up.....Now that i'm past the halfway mark on total skill points that are able to be trained up, with nearly 200 skills to lvl 5, all the isk i could want, the best possible implants owned and i'm able to fly every single ship in game as all combat ships are fully maxed( yes even all 4 titans), there simply isn't much left for the old farts of the game, and many people i played with back then have long since quit the game.



Since CCP focuses on new players almost exclusively for the last several years and their own database shows that the average player plays the game for 9 months and then quits, and considers the old players as an aquired asset that doesn't need any specifc attention since there here till the bitter end of the game no matter what happends, content for said audience, wich i admit is only a very small portion of the overall player base, has been non existant.



I hate being ignored but that's how the game is and so i only pop in every now and then, and mostly when there's new expansions released where i try out some of the new stuff for a couple of weeks, and then wait for the next expansion and until that point, i just chat with people i know, so the interest in the game is nowhere near what it used to be and has become a chat channel with graphics.

Hrm... I don't think spamming chat channels and spraying people with fire extinguishers was worth any note.

Really. Goons were in STO, but it really didn't matter what they did because it could not affect other players.

Oh I'm certain without raw PvP, certain individuals will find a way to make the lives of SC players painful. After all, initially in EVE Goonswarm was an organization that had rules. Hell, they even disallowed scamming and wanted to have a good reputation.

They became what you see today through being declared the cancer of New Eden. Anyone who shuns them when they come will be responsible for what will they do unto the world when they settle in.

The only way to stop the "griefing" is to disable player impact upon the world - and I'm not sure if CR is willing to do that.

I don't think it's that simple. CR's seems to be all about immersion and emergence. I would take it for granted that if it's actually "griefing" it will be dealt with, but if we are talking piracy, politics and graft it will likely not be restricted beyond the game mechanics.

It's amazing how you haven't got a single line of what you haven't read and yet can squeeze worthless nonsense out of it.

The only way Star Citizen will have a real impact on the core player community of EvE is if SC PvP is just as brutal. If not... sure people will go play it... but they will always come back to the gritty, painful, agonizing destruction of EvE Online.

Looking at what SC has in mind... space ships,dog fighting, first person, walking on planets etc etc... I am definitely interested in the new game. I hope the stars and planets move through the galaxy too. Among other things.

SC could be amazing and brilliant... or it could turn out to be stupid like STO and SWTOR. Are there any other space MMOs out there worth mentioning?

Now they are selling virtual fish for $1 and aquariums for $5. It turns out avatar gameplay is easy to monetize when devs actually work and don't ask permission from players to do so.