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Why I am leaving EVE after 8+ years of playing

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Leonerd Dice
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#41 - 2016-01-19 01:48:51 UTC
Um ... He has a valid point you idiots ... the game is kind going Pay To Win, Does this mean I'll be able to make a bunch of Trial Accounts. And then just transfer over SP? This isn't good you retards. morons.

CCP this isn't the way to go.
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#42 - 2016-01-19 01:52:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Tyberius Franklin
Leonerd Dice wrote:
Um ... He has a valid point you idiots ... the game is kind going Pay To Win, Does this mean I'll be able to make a bunch of Trial Accounts. And then just transfer over SP? This isn't good you retards. morons.

CCP this isn't the way to go.
You should read the blogs on this. Your hypothetical trial scenario won't work.
MidnightWyvern
Fukamichi Corporation
SAYR Galactic
#43 - 2016-01-19 01:53:35 UTC
So how many of these people are we going to see coming right back when Citadel releases?

Well, I shouldn't be too mean. I'll at least give them until the next expansion after Citadel before they come crawling back pretending they never ragequit in the first place.

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Neuntausend
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#44 - 2016-01-19 02:06:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Neuntausend
Tyberius Franklin wrote:
That's part of the point in a way, isn't it? This is supposed to lower the barrier of entry for character advancement. That still doesn't necessarily equal an expectation though, or even a need. How many actually do drop PLEX on shiny ships/mods as is?


Yes, that's the point. But does that make it any better? The barrier it lowers is just the one in players heads, that wouldn't be willing to purchase 20 PLEX at once to get a Character, but would potentially spend the same over time. This is not a way to help Newbies progress faster, it's a way to sell more PLEX quickly.

I don't have a problem so much with the fact that people will be buffing their Characters. As has been pointed out: SP don't make a good pilot, and you can only ever fly one ship at a time, which for most ships doesn't nearly take 50M SP. What worries me is the impression this system will leave on new players. We have PLEX on the market already, which is bad enough. But if you started playing a game, and saw that you can pretty much buy ingame currency for money, and then advance your character with it, thereby effectively bypassing the "natural progression" in every game-mechanically relevant way if you just drop enough money into it - what kind of game would you think it is?

We older players know that neither does one have to sell PLEX for ISK, nor for SP, and that neither currency nor character stats make nearly as much of a difference as they typically do in other games. But a completely new player will not know that. People that don't like P2W will be repelled by this, and people who are used to P2W will quickly learn that they cannot actually P2W in Eve and get frustrated rather quickly as well (admittedly, not until after sending CCP some money).

As for how many new players actually sell a PLEX in their first month - I don't have statistics on that, but I see it happen rather frequently. And typically, even the ones who don't do at least think about it.
Orlacc
#45 - 2016-01-19 02:39:04 UTC
Win what?


Character Bazaar has not ruined the game has it? You are all drama queens.

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Jacques d'Orleans
#46 - 2016-01-19 02:46:02 UTC
Gil Nutz wrote:
the usual " i leave because..." post.


relevant

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Flying Dangerous
#47 - 2016-01-19 02:47:49 UTC
Leonerd Dice wrote:
Does this mean I'll be able to make a bunch of Trial Accounts. And then just transfer over SP? This isn't good you retards. morons.

No it doesn't mean that at all.
Gregor Parud
Imperial Academy
#48 - 2016-01-19 03:10:01 UTC
While the OP could use some paragraphs I do agree with the sentiment. I'm not going to be part of this in any way nor will I help CCP by helping newbies get into this P2W game.
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#49 - 2016-01-19 03:20:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Tyberius Franklin
Neuntausend wrote:
Yes, that's the point. But does that make it any better? The barrier it lowers is just the one in players heads, that wouldn't be willing to purchase 20 PLEX at once to get a Character, but would potentially spend the same over time. This is not a way to help Newbies progress faster, it's a way to sell more PLEX quickly.
It's more than a barrier in player heads, You even quantified it in real numbers.

Neuntausend wrote:
I don't have a problem so much with the fact that people will be buffing their Characters. As has been pointed out: SP don't make a good pilot, and you can only ever fly one ship at a time, which for most ships doesn't nearly take 50M SP. What worries me is the impression this system will leave on new players. We have PLEX on the market already, which is bad enough. But if you started playing a game, and saw that you can pretty much buy ingame currency for money, and then advance your character with it, thereby effectively bypassing the "natural progression" in every game-mechanically relevant way if you just drop enough money into it - what kind of game would you think it is?
Honestly, about the same as any other now. There aren't that many pure sub games left and, while I'm sure this is an unpopular opinion, when I came into the game and saw PLEX my reaction was the opposite. The idea of spend RL and get isk was never an idea I had as a new player. My thought was "get good > play 4 free". With TSP it would have been, "get good > get SP." So long as it's on the market I can't see it as anything other than another high priced in game commodity which encourages real cash expense in the same way having deadspace mods does.

Neuntausend wrote:
We older players know that neither does one have to sell PLEX for ISK, nor for SP, and that neither currency nor character stats make nearly as much of a difference as they typically do in other games. But a completely new player will not know that. People that don't like P2W will be repelled by this, and people who are used to P2W will quickly learn that they cannot actually P2W in Eve and get frustrated rather quickly as well (admittedly, not until after sending CCP some money).

As for how many new players actually sell a PLEX in their first month - I don't have statistics on that, but I see it happen rather frequently. And typically, even the ones who don't do at least think about it.
My new player experience argues the opposite. The new player would need to understand PLEX/AUR as a system prior to thinking TSP is a P2W system. Seeing them on the market makes it just another consumable for the same currency you're earning through normal gameplay, albeit a large sum of it.

Without that understanding the path to TSP is simply "play the game more." And there is the factor of SP not making one better, but it unarguably makes more choices available and from that alone gives a measurable sense of progress. Honestly I'm starting to think the crowd yelling P2W at this and effectively advertizing the PLEX>isk>TSP path are doing more to push new players in that direction than simply leaving it be. So long as people keep stating it's THE method for new players to get it of course they won't just work in game towards it.

Edit: Forgot it's not TSP but injectors now. I liked TSP better.
Jenn aSide
Soul Machines
The Initiative.
#50 - 2016-01-19 03:21:23 UTC
I'm not a fan of it either. But the "I'm quitting" rage is counter productive, it just looks like crying to people. It's better to lay out the issue rationally...then rub CCPs nose in it in a few months with it all goes Bits up.
Sevchenko Valens
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#51 - 2016-01-19 03:26:26 UTC
SurrenderMonkey wrote:


And I'm sure there will be at least a handful of ragey noob posts by people who bought a ton of SP and promptly got rocked by some newb in a velator, so that will be fun too.


I can't wait Bear

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Gregor Parud
Imperial Academy
#52 - 2016-01-19 03:30:38 UTC
Jenn aSide wrote:
I'm not a fan of it either. But the "I'm quitting" rage is counter productive, it just looks like crying to people. It's better to lay out the issue rationally...then rub CCPs nose in it in a few months with it all goes Bits up.


We've been doing that for years and we'd accepted a lot of bullshit but P2W is where I draw the line. Since CCP doesn't want to listen to reason and they're doing the "lets squander EVE's values and core game mechanics for profit" then I don't want to be a part of that. On top of that it reeks of a firesale.

The only option I have is to vote with my wallet, it's the only thing CCP listens to.
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#53 - 2016-01-19 03:32:21 UTC
Gregor Parud wrote:
Jenn aSide wrote:
I'm not a fan of it either. But the "I'm quitting" rage is counter productive, it just looks like crying to people. It's better to lay out the issue rationally...then rub CCPs nose in it in a few months with it all goes Bits up.


We've been doing that for years and we'd accepted a lot of bullshit but P2W is where I draw the line. Since CCP doesn't want to listen to reason and they're doing the "lets squander EVE's values and core game mechanics for profit" then I don't want to be a part of that. On top of that it reeks of a firesale.

The only option I have is to vote with my wallet, it's the only thing CCP listens to.

SP is winning again apparently.
Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#54 - 2016-01-19 03:39:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Remiel Pollard
SurrenderMonkey wrote:
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And if this is 'gold ammo' in disguise, then goodbye CCP. That being said, skill points don't teach you to minimise your transversal or pick the right damage type, or how to fit correctly, etc etc. I suspect it's more likely that this will simply result in shinier ships being 'sat in' by people that have no clue.


I don't really see any way it could be "gold ammo". "Gold ammo" tends to be a a cash-shop exclusive item that is fundamentally better than the normal gameplay alternative.

This doesn't give "better" skillpoints. Quite the opposite, really, since it is a lossy procedure, and all of the skillpoints still have to be acquired in the usual way.

My inner bittervet wants to be offended on principle, but I just can't find anything to grr about.

And I'm sure there will be at least a handful of ragey noob posts by people who bought a ton of SP and promptly got rocked by some newb in a velator, so that will be fun too.


Read my whole post in context please. I did qualify the 'gold ammo' with an 'if'. I'm waiting to see how this turns out before I come to any conclusions. I am well aware of the procedure and the fact that someone still needs to train these SP before they can be sold, which is exactly why I'm reserving my judgement, for now. Like a good little skeptic though, I still refuse to accept at face value that this can do no harm, which is also exactly why I'm reserving judgement.

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Empty You
#55 - 2016-01-19 04:48:57 UTC
I'm also going to wait to see what happens, I have some predictions though.

1) Sleeper alts - Create a new char, give it 50m skillpoints, and take opponents by surprise

2) Character Bazaar prices will no doubt be affected to some degree

3) Some newbies will buy themselves a lot of skill points and find they're no more capable of killing older chars because they don't know what they're doing, this could result in some hilarious whine posts

I look forward to seeing what unfolds.

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Cara Forelli
State War Academy
Caldari State
#56 - 2016-01-19 04:54:43 UTC
SP efficiency for high SP characters will be bad. With 8+ years of skillpoints this change will not affect you in the slightest. You'll still have more SP than anyone who "pays to win" from scratch. Raging about it just shows your ignorance.

That said I think it's an unnecessary change but I find you rather unpleasant OP so I can't seem to agree with your opinion on the matter.

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#57 - 2016-01-19 05:05:19 UTC
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