EVE General Discussion

I'm confused.

You seem to be against rich corps using their wealth for the noble goal of introducing new players to the game. Players that otherwise might have never heard of this game.

It irks me that people seem to be adamantly opposed to corps trying to increase the player base. Is that not what CCP wanted in the first place? A sandbox with player made content? That content must surely include recruiting new people from outside the game. A thing that SA, Reddit, and others have successfully achieved.

Mr Epeen

So long as they have real life cash to stump up in addition to the subscription fee, that's really going to bring hordes of new guys

If it's not people paying real money for SP, I have no problems with it.
We can already sell our alts for isk on the bazaar. And lots of people have expressed an interest in shedding useless skills. Why is this such a problem?

I think its fine, give them skillpoint microtransactions so carebears can have max lvl ravens and stuff

I can understand the negative reaction of some people to this.

A lot of people have played the game a long time and some of those will view it as an achievement. So being able to buy sp undermines their sense of achievement.

People have been selling SP through the Character Bazaar for years. This is no different. The process is just more streamlined.

I remember one of previous protests which directly made Incarna aborted. It's the most absurd protest of all time in my own opinion. The protesters are so shortsighted.

Walking in the station is a significant feature, which could leads to various kinds of gameplay and extremely extend the depth of EVE. PVE is the base of EVE.

Skill trading is also a very important decision to new players, which could help them a lot to get through the tedious experience when waiting for skills to accomplish. Everyone knows the decline of online player number.

It's also vital for CCP, after all, who'd been once on the edge of bankruptcy.
CCP just sold White Wolf Publishing. I think the money will be spent on the new servers in my opinion.

And BURN JITA is losers rage against innocent people, which is so barbarous.
Have you ever heard of appeal to somebody for something, which eventually harms others?
That's protests turn to riots in real life.

Fully skilled characters going for 10s of billions is not the same as TSPs going for (at a guess) 100s of millions. The bar is set high enough in the character bazaar that new guys aren't all buying fully skilled characters. When those characters are broken down into TSP sized packets and put on the market at "more affordable" prices, many more new guys are going to buy the TSPs who would not have bought a new character. When the ones who don't, or cannot afford to see their 2 day old friends in the ship they will have to wait weeks to fly, the message will be clear,

YOU CAN PLAY NOW, IF YOU PAY US MORE MONEY.

The difference between character bazaar and TSPs is like Cocaine to Crack. If you can't see endless whine threads about CCP doing something about the price of SPs in General Discussion in the future then I would suggest it is you who is being dishonest.
The perception for many newguys just starting the game and many thinking about starting will be YOU CAN PLAY NOW, IF YOU PAY US MORE MONEY, whether that's 100% accurate is irrelevant, if that's what people think it will damage subscriptions and retention.

You can question the "real" reason for my opposition to this move all you like, I've been consistent in my reasons since it was suggested and it has nothing to do with butthurt about my SPs being devalued (I don't even have that many I spent so long unsubbed over the years). It has nothing to do with stupid principles (I bought this character back in 2010) it has everything to do with my feeling that newguys do need better help getting into this game more quickly and this being about the worst possible way that can be achieved.

Playing EVE is real life.