EVE General Discussion

I just wanted to take the time to explain my reasons in hopes maybe CCP will understand why this great game is on its last legs. I played eve because it wasnt like other MMO's out there. It was hard. It took time and patients to learn and to be able to fly ships. Nothing was givin to you. You had to earn it. With the soon to be release of being able to transfer character SP for real money that will no longer be the case. You wont need to take time and patients to learn the skills needed to play. You can just whip out your credit card. Gone will be the days of pride at taking the time to learn the skills to fly a ship. You wont have that sense of accomplishment anymore. Gone are the days of a good community as well. Look at all the other pay to win games out there. Those communities are toxic. And before you say eve isnt pay to win it is. The definition of pay to win is paying real money to gain advantage over people who do not pay in game. Now you may say well we have plex. Yes we have plex but that does not unbalance the game. Being allowed to transfer sp for real money does. Its no longer about training skills. It will be about how much money you can drop on skill points. Now let me explain how this will not add new people to your community. Not only are you gonna lose alot of your player base when you decide to do this but it will never have the effect you want it to. Pay to win types of people do not stick to games very long. They get bored after a month and leave. Also new people who dont want to pay after they have to pay a subscription fee will see it as a huge turn off and you will lose the majority of the small amount of new people you already dont have. As for new people who do spend. You are setting them up for failure. They have no idea how to fly the ships they just magically learned how to fly, and so they spend plex to buy said ship and then within a day or 2 they loose it. Do you honestly think the majority of those new players are gonna go spend more money???? No they wont they will leave. You will not gain new members from this. I did not agree with alot of decisions that you have made CCP but I stuck with you guys because those decisions you made did not effect the balance of the game. It did not give unfair advantages to people who have a bigger wallet. And so I will take my many years and great memories and leave with them before the game I love becomes a former shadow of what it used to be. Congrats CCP your becoming more like EA games everyday. Good bye and enjoy the game while it lasts. Eve will die because of bad choices. End rant Fly safe or dangerous.

Damm man use punctuation .

I will give you the gift of paragraphs in exchange for all of your stuff

I asked for them first, in exchange for the wonders of human-centric formatting.

HAppy 2016 skill for sale feature is soon here ahahahahhaha

Except you've always been able to buy skillpoints in the form of a whole new character. This just makes it better to keep character identity.

This changes nothing. Except you now don't have to buy a whole character.

EDIT: And you bought said whole character in the form of isk. Which is what plex can be used for.

Dude, is your return button broken?????

That whole "whipping out creditcard" you speak of and "newbies who don't stay", coincide.


Doesn't mean we should leave.

Depending on how much Isk these thing will be worth in-game, it may actually deter pay to win. Plex is already 15 to 20 dollars and billions of Isk in-game, and that is just for game time. A comparative estimate for skill trading is effectively another case of game - time translating into money. 500,000 skilpoints would not be cheap, and skill time training multipliers would further diminish return as much as your current standing skill points affecting the amount of points you get upon injection.

On the professional side of things, however, I can see this being used by long time player to not only make profit by getting rid of skilpoints attached to skills they do not use anymore but also help Corp members get up to speed on skills they are training. Because of their value , I would think they would not be things sold easily to newcomers unless they are new members to a veteran Corp. They are not like PLEX that are used for game time or multi-training, but have a tangible effect on skill training (although 500,000 sp is pittance in the long run). Guys would likely go broke before getting anywhere tangible if they relied on sp injectors to train their characters. It is just a booster, not a game breaker. If they are priced like Plex (perhaps more) that WILL limit the potential for buying them en-masse.

Real world awaits you. Hand over your stuffz. I demand it.