EVE General Discussion

You should read the blogs on this. Your hypothetical trial scenario won't work.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.