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I just reached 20M skill points. Now I am feeling that my accomplishment is moot, as skillpoints have been monotized in a blatant cash grab that breaks the promise CCP made (before I joined).

I won't be resubbing or plexing after all. Pay-to-play doesn't mesh with pay-to-win.
I'll go play some F2P game instead, there are lots to choose from.

Skill points were already monetized. Note how they only accrue of paid accounts. It's literally the only reason I have more than one account now, and further, why I stayed subbed during long stretches of inactivity.

Edit: And funny enough, despite some saying they feel their "accomplishments" are moot and their training devalued, I bet the ones who aren't actually leaving are still going to keep those queues full without missing a beat.

This is why I suggested that CCP set up a donation bin where THEY can verify true newbie status and hand out injectors. Veterans donate (like for Plex4Good) and CCP gives to newbies.

Otherwise, in-corp / in-alliance, probably after they pass the API check and if they show promise.

Are you predicting an impending invasion of EVE by "rich lazy people" from outside? There are thousands of spoiled millionaire brats out there who are just waiting for EVE to show a crack in its defences, where they can insert their platinum credit card and pry the game wide open?

Or are the "rich lazy people" you are talking about here the ISK-bloated EVE elite of the game today? That would be the people who have "won" the purportedly pure EVE that still exists now, and thus supposedly are the masters of delayed gratification who worked their hands bloody on unyielding, punishing game mechanics to be on the top of the most brutal game ever. Or something like that...

So which army of the rich am I supposed to be afraid of here? An incoming swarm of the real life rich that will bury EVE in mountains of real world cash, or the vengeful troops of the 1% of EVE who will strangle us with the dead hands of their ISK gerontocracy?

Or maybe it will be both, and Jita will be Smaug's mountain where we sit on a stash of unallocated SP and see the dark forces amass from all sides to claim their share?

Oh SP, my Precious.

I don't think any of it will come from quitters, nor do I know of many who think it will. If they quit why would they bother?

And some WILL come from people shedding skills, because it's quick effortless isk, but that's not sustainable. It's entirely dependent long term on the idea of farming for sale. It also becomes near entirely pointless for trades within an account. A few players who feel the messed up on their skills end up using it once, and beyond that the best you can hope for is a few players chasing the FOTM every few months.

Also, what reason is there to bar week old characters from any part of this (leaving aside for the moment that they are excluded from extracting SP unless they injected to 5.5m before that point)?

Edit: And as already addressed, the nature of gaining SP already drives multiple account holding. And remaining subbed while inactive. And PLEX consumption via the Bazaar. And PLEX sales to afford Bazaar characters.

Idiocy aside id say a little of both. I dont predict swarms of people to come to eve because of the "chink in its armor", however i do expect that new players who join that wouldnt usually be patient enough to sit through the skill queue will now stay and skip ahead in SP. This sounds fine on paper, more subscriptions! Great! But in reality it would create more entitled group of players, and it would skyrocket the people with money to blow on video games past the new players who start at the same time who dont pay extra for the sp boost. Theres no situation that the average new player benefits from this, not unless the distribution is handled by some method other than the market or contracts. In other words, not by the players.

And that "1%" makes up a lot of players, and gets bigger every year. if it didnt PLEX prices wouldnt be so high and going up a good chunk a year. When i started 6 years ago PLEX was like 400mil. With introduction of Incursions, WH loot, moon redistribution, and other things, there are more than enough players capable of clearing the market of skill injectors, especially because of the bottleneck that will happen as people try to get their farms to keep up with demand

As already addressed, the Bazaar comes with drawbacks. Past history, contacts, a corp list, a character birth date. And it doesnt let you customize your sp exactly how you want it. The "its the same as the bazaar" comment has been done to death and isnt even worth responding anymore, because it isnt. And for the record the bazaar was also a terrible idea but at least it wasnt done through the NEX.

And even if inactive, if your subbing the account thats still time investment, whether you watch the sand fall through the hourglass or not.

New players can sell plex and purchase. Or rat/trade/steal and purchase. What's the problem?

Sure, but that in no way detracts from the fact that it monetizes sp. Those restriction, don't and can't change that. The Bazaar also it does allow choice of what sp to buy. You don't get a random allocation, so the consequence of not choosing is overstated.

And yes, you did state it wasn't done through the NEX, but as someone without an irrational hatred of the NEX/NES it's pretty clear the storefront has absolutely no meaning.

Watching sand is the point, when it comes to maintaining a sub while inactive. The examples were monetization of sp. And they were all accurate.

There *should* be drawbacks. Taking them away is the problem.

No drawbacks = no consequences. No consequences = No strategy involved.

No strategy involved = This is no longer a "game", and probably no longer engaging. You'll soon get bored.




Character stripping will probably drive it for the first few months, just because so many players are going to have dusty alts in their closet that have been sitting there unused for a while, or alts with skills that turned out to be useless.

Also the product will be new and exciting to lots of people at first, so the ISK price will probably be very high.

After all the recycling is over, then probably farms will be the dominant source of SP. But it might not turn out to be very profitable to farm for SP and sell it. The reason being that the product you are selling is so uniform and interchangeable that there will be quite a lot of competition bringing down the price.