EVE General Discussion

CCP Quant and CCP Rise have found that the no-interaction playerbase have the greatest chance of leaving the game.

That $14.95 from them is temporary, and their needs don't contribute to any long term survivability of the game.



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This is untrue, Burner Missions are pure solo content, people are still working out ways to beat them solo..



Some people try to make it 'hard core vs casual' or 'pvp vs pve' but it's none of that. It's the 'people suited to playing EVE long term' crowd vs the 'spoonfed instant gratification crowd'.

It's only because of CCPs turn to try to gain these types starting around 2008 (the real beginning of CCPs unsuccessful grab for glory that started with "group PVE" and finally starting to implement WiS) that got so many of them to come here in the 1st place. CCP soon learned that trying to replace an existing loyal playerbase with a potentially larger but distinctly disloyal (low attention span) audience was a bad idea and partially pulled out of that steep dive before it was too late. But they still seem to me to sometimes be on the edge of temptation when it comes to the issue...like they are only 5 seconds from throwing in the towel and saying 'screw it, lets go themepark and milk that crowd for all it's worth for a few years before it all comes crashing down"...

How can they contribute when their only way to contribute is to stop playing the game they're playing?

EVE is a subscription service, and subcription services are measured as the service is provided to the customer. CCP is giving a poor service to a majority of customers, and their excuse is that some other customers are getting a great service and customers are free to pick what service they use.

"Your PvE sucks!"
"But our PvP is great..."
"Your solo gameplay sucks!"
"But our multiplay is great..."
"Your Highsec gameplay sucks!"
"But the other areas are great..."
"Your money comes mostly from Highsec Solo PvE!"
"But we're making... after all... Art."
"Art isn't sustainable without Commercial"
"We hope to turn Art into our Commercial"
"That would betray the people who's been buying your Commercial..."
"That's the price of Art. We are the freak redhead in the party!"
"You'll be a unemployed, forgotten freak redhead once you lose your Commercial"
"Let's pretend that that will never happen, shall we...?" *smiles and winks*
"Dammit..." *shakes head*
(Who are these two?)

The problem is this will never change...ever...

I refuse to play how others want me to play, whatever they want. I really want to be back in a Null Sec Corp. But applying to get into a Corp is a bloody nightmare. And the politics of many if not most Corps is crap. Then spending 3 hours getting ready for a roam just so half the guys can drop out because of wife aggro, or running to dock up because you run into a larger group. It all gets to be a drag...

Maybe they are worried, but there is no correlation between the (decrease in) the playerbase numbers and the "quality" of ideas posted, on these forums or Reddit or anywhere.

Honestly, they have moderators to sift through forums and forward worthwhile ideas, they have the CSM as a feedback mechanism, they have that "why did you cancel subscription" questionnaire (whatever its worth), and they have internal metrics that tell them which kinds of EVE gameplay are popular and which are not.

They can panic if they want to, but listening to forums would be a bad idea.

EDIT: In my opinion, the reduced playerbase isn't because of high-sec; I think it's because the big 0.0 alliances are in limbo as far as starting fun wars, until the sov, structure, and capital ship changes are fully deployed. This thread is pretty much off-topic for this year; this CSM was pretty much elected for nullsec issues, and CCP was going to focus on nullsec changes. And they better hurry with them.

Well duh. One has only to look at ice and rock belts in highsec to see all the missing ISBoxer fleets.

ISBox is missing. But multiboxers are all online, some even manage larger fleets than before. I don't get your point here, frankly. vºv

I don’t think there is anything wrong with HS, the problem is with all other secs, although I think LS is in the best place atm. Why do I think this?

Background

When I first started playing EvE I got contacted by a NS group before I even finished my tutorials and decided to move to NS there and then. Probably the reason for this was I had come from WoW playing the end game, raids with a top guild, which became very boring in the end. I saw NS as EvE’s end game and rightly so when I moved down. There was massive fleets very little PVE and fantastic support for newbros like me. Every night there would be multiple roams and always something to do. The highlights were BR, titan bridging and working your way back from half way across the universe to get back home and hopefully fighting along the way. Fun times.

I trained in to carriers and bought a JF char, help with the logic side of the corp etc. Still fun times, then the NS nerfs hit... To me this flattened NS life, less fights, Logistics were a pain in the butt and roams finding very little, even using JBs became a pain with the fatigay. So I went inactive for awhile, still subbed for the training could not bring myself to stop that :P
Then when back for a bit and noticed a few others feeling the same about NS and decided to created my own corp and try something completely new, WHs. Switched training on my dred/carrier/jf pilot from cap mastery to processing, PI etc. that would be useful in the WH and also sold all my caps. Now this was great for I think about a year, all the new stuff to learn, POS, corp management, sleeper sites etc. We were doing well in our C3 and had fun abusing our K-space connections to all over Eve, just like the old days in NS. Fun times.

Then we grew a bit, C3 was not really providing enough income and was becoming ridiculously easy, time to step up our game! Moved to a C4, the logistics were a nightmare, but we got there in the end. Well a few months in and we found that we were earning more and so could by those nice T3Cs etc. but the problem was finding PVP content. Scanning for hours mapping the chain, looking for K-space exits to do our PVP in. I know this is not how the hardcore WH’ers say WHs should be played, but it’s how we wanted to play and felt too small to go against the established WH groups. In the end we all moved out to LS except one who has now I believe made billions solo’ing the PVE in the C4.
Again we all went our separate ways, I tried moving back down to NS with my old corp, was fun for only about a month and then sov mechanics changed again this destroyed NS for me as we all moved in to NPC NS. So after trying to HTFU and adapt I found myself playing other games and took a break from EvE for about 3 months.

The return

I came back on a few weeks ago and found one of my own corp mates that used to live in WH was on, he was chilling in HS. I moved back to my corp and moved all the assets etc. up to HS with him. We are now running HS missions, anoms for the chance of DED and really just having a good old social time. Sure this will get boring too we both know that, but we are enjoying the break, learning the stuff I never have tried before. The epic arcs, cosmos, missions and lore. To be honest I am learning a lot more about fitting etc. as I run the higher level DEDs and missions, than I ever did in NS as ships were always on contract and no thought required. So fun times again for a bit.

Future

To be honest I don’t see NS changing to suit my play style and as the corp gets back together now winter is coming, we all agree that the lower class WH provided the best options for content. HS, LS and NS access through the chains. This is where we will end up, but we don’t want to move until details about how citadels will work in WH space. So we are playing, yet again, the CCP waiting game. I just hope HS keeps us interested enough until 2016!

Finally

I see more life in HS, most I talk to are happy doing their own thing solo or in corps. People seem to be having fun as far as I can see. It’s the people in other areas that seem to be talking negatively about the game, I know many are just passing time until the next changes come.

HS is fine(ish), LS almost fine, the rest not. (Based on my opinion and no one elses). The reason I am in HS is due to the current of the game I really can’t think of a better place to wait out the changes.
TLDR; Read or don’t I really don’t mind.

Also I don’t care about spelling/grammer etc. I am at work and should not be writing this, just wanted to get across how the game has been for me personally over the few years I have been playing.

Ah, look, the dishonesty alt has returned. The bolded part is the reveal right there.

I never said "everything". I have said that CCP has done a lot for PVE (newsflash, pve isn't jus tin high sec unless I'm imagining these escalation I run all the time) and those of us who actally like EVE PVE understand this,

The loses from high sec were probably all people who shouldn't have been paying EVE in the 1st place, but played it because "there was nothing else" or "EVE could be great one day". Those people are no loss, because it's stupid to play a video game for reasons other than "man I like this video game!".

People like you worry about the issue it for selfish, anxiety laden reasons:

- because you worry that the lack of income for CCP from those incompatible fair weather players is somehow going to hurt you (based on the stupid belief that it was helping you in the 1st place)

and

-(perhaps more importantly) people like you recognize your own kind, and with fewer people like you (and more like me) you know you have less impact on CCPs design decisions.

Man, it must suck for high sec/themepark partisans to see their base of whiney entitled solo/casual political support just evaporate into thin air like that.... However will they get CCP to change EVE to their liking if the game is filled with nothing more than people who actually like playing EVE?11?!?!?

Bottom line is, unles u pay for their accounts u dont have the right to tell people how to play eve

period.

u just want easy kills, no risk,most carebears have more balls than griefers by a long shot