EVE General Discussion

Since when is customer appreciation a form of Vanity ????

vanity: excessive pride in or admiration of one's own appearance or achievements.

Celebrating one's playerbase does not qualify as this at all.

This is CCP's "Open Door policy"

Really, you think a ton of players will burn 12 or 15 dollars/ pounds to re-sub to get their player name engraved on a rock?
And I would suggest the segment of players that re-sub to get their player name immortalized will not likely be the type to hang around in the game. Whatever factors that drove them to unsub in the first place will remain.
I strongly doubt that any revenue increase in subs will outweigh the costs of this venture.

I guess that CCP is actually in pretty good shape financially, if they can afford this thing.

And as for high sec being nerfed by this, I will not disappoint all my followers and detractors.

How about this as conspiracy theory

1. CCP is in great shape financially because they would not be throwing silly money at this if they were not. Because they must have some kind of cushion, that means that CCP must feel they could weather the financial storm if some significant segment of their player base quit, also known as some percentage of high sec. So the faction within CCP that wants to decimate high sec is given the blessing of Hilmar, and sweeping nerfs to high sec are implemented, and CCP takes a short term hit in subs, but with the new game mechanics, draws in every sociopath that plays video games, and Eve's sub rate doubles to 1 million in 12 months, and within 2 years, outstrips WoW.

At that point, a new monument is erected, depicting Hilmar in his flowing Nordic robes, leading the charge of the null sec cartels luminaries against some defenceless high sec miner. Such luminaries flanking Hilmar we will include the effigies of all the people that helped create this new Nirvana, like soundwave, fozzie, seagull, and mittens.


Now, is that tinfoil enough for you today, or do you need something more?

Obviously older players re-subbing is a great thing.

However, it's a long term fail -- this is just a publicity stunt.

Nobody will care about this.

Put in other terms: why did those players unsub to begin with? Does this monument correct those reasons?

Will they come back and say "Oh man, this monument is so great. I'm so glad I came back. Without the monument, EVE Online is just not as fun of a video game."

Really?

If a player's main character is called "I hate Iceland" or something similar, would CCP still add that name to the monument?

I like the idea of the Monument and i don't understand why so much ppl whine here. Because last year on Fanfest they annouced that they will build a Monument and after that it becomes very quiet about that. So no wonder that CCP reannouced that.

But two thing could be done by CCP different:
1st why doesnt show CCP several different concepts about that Monument and let the Players and Devs decide which one is the better.

2nd why has this Monunemt so less reference to Eve? I personally didn't like the right structure its looks like a Penis (ty Turrann). Why not instead the Concord Station from Yulai or a Gallente Outpost i thing Jita 4-4 Station would be also good.

This is so true, I already get "Immortalized" in so many indie games because of crowdfunding, the underlying problems with Eve still exist.

Untill all these get resolved, using a 1 week timer to bring "good news" to us the customers is ridiculously out of context.

Nonni's, of course.

I wonder? The monument looks about seven metres long, so the two long sides have three and a half square metres of space each. The short sides might be four metres? That's eleven square metres, one hundred and ten thousand square centimetres. An EVE player might have two accounts average, so there might be two hundred and fifty thousand players.

0.44 square centimetres per player? I must be wrong about the number of actual players

e: derp. ten thousand cm^2 per square metre. not ten thousand for eleven

Underwhelmed by the announcement.

Manipulated by the timer.

CCP vanity project.

Monument has no reference to either Iceland or EVE at all.

Sum it up?