Jita Park Speakers Corner

Can the CSM take up the proportion of Eve revenue reinvested into the Eve game. I know this is an out of game issue but Dust going straight to Free to Play is an insult to EvE subscribers. This means the years to investment into "walking in stations" (lets get some stats on how many 3 month + subscribers still have that enabled) etc. is highly unlikely to be payed back into the Eve game experience.

Recent expansions have been around configuration of existing functionality rather than radical game developments (nothing much has hit the game since T3 Cruisers and wormholes - balancing etc. is minimal technical effort, incursions are mostly DED space content configuration and graphics has a minimum game play effect).

The cash cow has funded a free to play game that is at least linked to eve plus a vampire fest on which the jury is still out.

I'd like the CSM to raise this to remind CCP of the previous eve player discontent on this issue and raise the likelihood of a repeat.

The sandbox needs new sand more often than it's currently provided - dying the existing sand is insufficient. Asking players what they want gives enhancements to the existing - CCP need planned evolution and we haven't seen that for many expansions.

Posting in a new form of the "EVE is dyeing" thread.

However before adding new sand they need to remove the chunks of crap that came in with the last batch. Iteration is a good thing. The balancing happening at the moment was sorely needed to get people flying different ships again and they will be adding new features in the future. They just need to finish the stuff they've added now.

Also WIS... they can let that die... It's useless to this spaceship game.

You don't count the changes to exploration as content? Specifically the minigame

Yeah, they're just going to give up $7-8 million per month and rely on old men buying frilly panties for their avatars to make up the rest of that income, because the majority of us feel like we should be able to play for free. Idk, maybe I just don't understand the F2P model, but I can't see them putting anything in the store that isn't merely cosmetic that won't have some adverse effect on the game.

No, I'll gladly pay my subscription to keep Eve the way it is.

The vampire fest does not pull on the financial resources of the EvE universe, it is funded more by the book sales of the tabletop RP and LARP assets from the White Wolf Game Studios from whence it came. They were just collaborating on a similar feature that was already in development. A lot of great artists and art assets in addition to the WiS (that suffered a PR failure more than a technical one) have come out of that studio already so the mixing of blood ( no pun intended ) has been a boost to both systems.

There is a rabid fanbase waiting for that game to release, and it does not look to be a free to play game. personally, i think they should have focused more on that then the fickle praystation fanbois, but it IS their corp, not ours.

I think CCP have received & internalised this message already.

But just to make sure, I'll be constantly reminding them of it, because I completely agree with you. These 2 years of "iteration" expansions have been wonderful: EVE is almost unrecognizably better (and will be even more so with Odyssey), and the fixes and upgrades to core mechanics have provided a wonderful foundation for true expansions.

Now it's time to start building on that foundation.