EVE General Discussion

Sorry to hijack the troll festival, but I'm going to agree with OP on (parts of) this. OP is not complaining about ganking game mechanics here, oh all ye who use children's tears for jerk lube. He is complaining about CCP's marketing tactics and that the rules of etiquette that they enforce on the players they obviously don't apply to themselves.

And the players of any MMO should be concerned when their host company starts talking about console games because that's always a sign that you - yes you - are about to be sold out and left to wither away on the vine.

Also, laugh all you want, but Facebook is still kind of a big deal. Even if you don't touch Facebook with a ten meter pole (I don't use it, either) there are still over 750,000,000 people who do. Any company that ignores Facebook as a marketing tool is just plain stupid.

You may now resume your arrogant troll-a-thon.

AFAIK the rule about not posting KMs has nothing to do with humiliation (since we do that plenty as it is without them).

Also, it is not humiliation, but a public lesson for all future freighter pilots.

No problems here since I do not 'do' Facebook.

Do think CCP needs to rethink the posting of killboard stuff since it matters to, eh, not to me but others.
Trow a bone CCP, if you think its viable for the utter crap that is FB (next to those tasty RMT ads) you should allow it in someway on your own forums.
These are marketing tools as well, but I'm sure you're well aware of that.

It's not humiliating its educational, lol @ 126k exotic dancers.

The no killmail rule does not exist outside of a thread in the old CAOD archive. It is not included in the new forum rules nor is there any additional rules thread in the CAOD section. In fact, I see several uncensored KM links in CAOD right now.

Also, km's were never banned due to "etiquette" or whatever dumb reason you're pulling out of thin air - it was because CCP felt they encouraged flame threads. Read for yourself: http://community.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1237054

tl:dr The rule you claim CCP is breaking doesn't exist.

Soooo you're mad because the forum rules don't apply to facebook? Seriously? How dare they want to share something that would possibly get more people interested on their facebook page.

Don't be an angry immature crybaby.

Your getting upset that they publish the suicide gank of a 20b isk freighter, yet

• you don't mention the successful ponzi schemes that scammed 4000+ people out of trillions of isk?
• you don't mention the Corp Thefts of hundreds of billions to trillions in assets?
• you don't mention Alliance sabotage, where spies disband entire alliances of thousands of players?

Hell, Causality Trailer encourages lying and being underhanded to sabatoge an entire alliance because they killed your Merlin...

A large portion of EvE's PR centers around, in EvE, you have a choice to use your power as you choose, gaining profit by hard work and cooperation, or by destroying the work of others and taking whatever you can!

As Hannibal Lector would say, "Cry, cry. Cry, cry."

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The trolls are out in force tonight. I am sure they are nice people in real life. Whilst I value their opinions I am saddened they resort to childish insults rather than reasoned arguments, maybe I am simply asking too much? It maybe that their ingame persona is reflected in their forum posts and if their ingame persona is that of an ignorant, dumb, childish troll then they have my sincere congratulations for doing it so well. Calling me a crybaby was something only a child could conjure up, and the old "Ragequit" insinuation was one of those golden moments from 2005 or was it 2006. Your all so passé.

Some clarification.

Whats FaceBook got to do with these forums you have asked?

In my view CCP should have a consistent approach to their standards and players should expect a little respect from CCP, after all we are all customers. Would any other business ridicule / humiliate their source of income? They ban links to kill mails on the boards so why ignore this rule when the marketing team want some cheap laughs? Does not matter if it was facebook, twitter or any other social media or official CCP channel. Does not matter if the real name / address / telephone number of the customer was not included many people will know him / her in game. For those who say its now allowed, I think you will find the ISD delete them as soon as they find them.

I am sure CCP take action against those that recycle -5's, but its not consistent and many /most get away with it. So an account is banned. The assets have been moved big deal, thats going to hurt, not. New accounts will be up and running long before CCP issue a ban.

There is an issue of balance. It does not matter the value of the contents of a ship and I would agree no ship should be safe, space is a dangerous place. But should 6 T1 ships do so much damage in empire before Concord can do their bit? Seems concord went for doughnuts or maybe goons / others know how to "use" the system. It worries me CCP have set concord to be so ineffective.

Player numbers are falling, less players on-online, hardly any new players willing to grind skills and power of two back is back to get what we all need, lots more carebear / suicide / spy alts. Its years since a record was broken and plex prices continue to rise despite CCP's recent Plex Offers, a sure sign the company needs some cash. How far is Dust behind schedule, a year? Did CCP fire 20% of their staff not too long ago. Dust is critical, to Eve as well as CCP.

Dust is CCP's ace in the hole. They hope that many new console players will see the light and sign up for eve. I am sure we will see some nice tempting offers for Dust Players. I wonder how the 14 year old "veteran console" Dust Player will fund his monthly subs? Maybe a get rich quick suicide ganking model would work? Look how easy it is? ----> Points to facebook link.

If Dust Fails to generate the income CCP need what will happen to Eve? I really don’t know , maybe CCP don’t know. If Dust takes off and is a success who will CCP prioritise in their development cycle. the masses or the Eve Vets?

I am sure the trolls will be back, please try and look at the bigger picutre. its not just about Pew Pew, Shooting ****. PVP and being a real ********, but you all do it so well.

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