EVE General Discussion

All such change in ownership involves loss of confidence by the market, insecurity among employees and persons utilizing the companies services. There is no way of knowing what the next owners will do.

"I am up for a part in Cats on Broadway. Oh I cannot dance well and am old with bad knees and haven't auditioned but if they offer me the part I am up for it."

Them looking at investors and discussing a sale is not the end of Eve. Hell, it might just be rumour mill to try to squeeze some tax breaks out of the local government.

I don't panic on rumours and what if so-and-so buys the game because it is more a waste of my time than me going out and buying cat ears (I gots my own!) I will keep driving the Bus and helping the new players until whoever owns the game throws/drives me out or I run out of assets to do so.

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what? I've always been critical of that whole thing. Like that Fanfest video that had Sindel Pellion talking about how they participated in the monument shoot like it was something to be proud of. It's appalling.

I guess there have been changes in my plans that maybe alters the context, like how I'm studying 3D animation and game design right now, and seriously looking at what type of industry I want to enter. (It's gaming design in name but it's the same core skills as a lot of different 3D disciplines).

I like EVE as a player but if you want to talk about what's happened in terms of the company and development (like we are doing right now) I basically don't want to go anywhere near it. OR game development, it's a meatgrinder not made any better by players who get upset about a profit motive.

More often than not, its bad.

This is not good news for us as end product consumers of just one of CCPs products/services.

Change in ownership rarely happens without new owners making changes.

The new owners have their own interests and ideas, and adjusting to them takes time, effort and cost.

I believe the report is legiit, albeit unconfirmed. I am not optimistic about the potential results.

There's a case like Dreamworks where it was acquired by NBCUniversal and 200 were let go from corporate because they became redundant. Larger company has corporate management in place etc. So I guess it depends on the type of entity looking to acquire a game IP. Investor versus a games company conglomerate like ZeniMax who might already have some of the relevant infrastructure in place.

As for EVE changing as a result, I don't see that happening. The transaction model might change like it did with Alphas but that didn't impact cyno mechanics, for example.

You may be correct. I was hardcore exploration back before SoE ships and exploration sites outside of wormholes were still combat sites. Then they made exploration super easy with sites galore and instead of facing unknown challenges and outcomes it's just another aspect of EZ-Grind™. I used to survive alone wandering WHs and nullsec on my own running sites solo (or attempting to - they could be pretty harsh) and making it back into highsec with loot felt like an achievement.

Now I feel like I'd rather slam my willie in the door before I do exploration.

Making stuff easier does NOT make it better, nor more attractive. For a time I was part of the "Vanilla WoW" movement (though not intended to play it, just support it) there were more people wanting to play that than there are Eve subs before Blizzard killed it.

Hence the irony of Eve looking it's best, never having had a better variety of ships than ever before, having the best character customization than ever before, and the biggest battles than ever before, better training options and dealing with SP, player owned "stations" (Citadels), no cost clones, and F2P. All that, but there is no return to the golden age that for all variable opinions observed thus far, appears to have been the period of 2007 to early 2011.

There are problems with the community and direction of the game that all the skins and tiericide in the world won't fix.

I bet you'd look pretty cute with a set of cat ears

WTF CCP

http://www.parentherald.com/articles/93316/20161211/eve-online-game-developer-sale-ccp-games-considering-955-million.htm

the why comes down to money, that's totally obvious. The difference is "who." There are groups who want to be good stewards and there are others who operate like world eaters.

Investing?

Someone who pays such money, would like return on investment. I wonder how much CCP can return.
(They stopped publishing the reports.) What I remember whole WoD development was worth 30M they had to basically throw out.

Returns, in a timespan of 20 years it would be 45M per year? Just to return them 900M from 2016? I cant imagine that. Even cutting development costs.
What are they thinking? CCP making software for VR market exclusively, and counting on VR hardware boom? I dont see that happening.