EVE General Discussion

you answered your own statement. A company that have a single product is a company that has a much higher chance of dying. Dust/legion/Not legion, valk, gunjack, WoD, all these were/are chances to expand the brand and make secondary or even third income sources. Relying on a single product in the volatile (it is) video game market is crazy. EVE may have lasted 13 years now, but if ccp stayed focused on just eve, and lets say, Scam Citizen did come and was great, there is a real possibility eve and CCP dies. But if say CCP has a few decent games out, and Scan Citizen comes, then eve losing numbers and dying won;t hurt ccp and won;t kill new eden either. It would give ccp a chance to make an EVE 2, or keep chugging. Business' are suppose to grow. If not then lucas would only have done star wars, and no other brand. but they don;t because that is highly risky.

That was the point of WoD, to add more brands to ccp. But they really just need to focus on the New Eden ip and will be fine.

Thats why they are doing other projects. Share holders, Stake Holders and owners want more money and more return on there investment. EVE's growth was great, but it was going to eventually reach a peak. And thats scary if its all you have. The repair mode should be winding down soon (i think) with citadels and new structures (which will be new and chance game play) we are getting to the end. New stuff should come. I am 100% ok with ccp supplementing income till then. I will be pissed if i was forced to buy injectors or eve goes F2P, but some mild supplemental s that could add different game play elements in the future? sure.

Thanks, I will wait. I have bought what I need already.

After seeing so many convinced they can now "PLEX with SP's" and saying they're unsubbing to do so while setting up SP farms....There's only one way PLEX are going rapidly soon and that's not down, time to get the popcorn.

CCP is like the kid that screamed "WOLF WOLF"..... Ive stopped hoping...

The reality is that CCP now only see EVE like a milkingcow, The big $ is gone... those $ was the incentive to evovle EVE, its gone... so is the future of EVE... But as long as the leftover players pay their monthly subs, CCP will keep EVE barely alive. Its beginning to smell like how "EVONY" was run... (Google it :D )

PLEX still need to enter the game otherwise there would eventually be none. Plus you need Aurum for the extractors, probably the reason they ended up in the shop.

Do you do that? Look at a character's age before deciding how/whether to engage in PvP? I don't. I look at what they're flying. What friends they have the next system over. Whether they've brought in a boosting T3. I never give even a first thought to their age.

That's why the suggestions to allow readjustment of skill points on the same character (using extractors and then inject them back into the same character w/o DR or other ways that would allow CCP to get some money) got added right during the discussion of the first devblog! Now I see.

Or rather not.

Instead, you continue to proclaim this all is for the new players (three times alone in the two flight academy videos). Who would dare to question any strategy that will help eve to attract more player (once again). But I still wonder how many new players actually used that feature - or actually know how to make use of the Tempest that's in the current banner ad for skilljection from your tutorial videos and other sources for NPE guidance.

I do understand your point of view.
Now that CCP came to the conclusion that the amout of skillpoints is irrelevant - is there an ETA on when all of us will have max-skilled accounts available?

As you said - that wouldn't change anything as it is our actions what define us and the game, not skillpoints.

Fail to see a reason why you wouldn't give all players all skills to V to enable each of us to keep our gameplay fresh and try new things.

Not only is it P2W...it is also F2P if the prices settle in.
Your take on is getting paid by CCP - nothing else.

Sure why wouldn't you, it's a piece of intel (well used to be until the skill extractors). Don't do it so much anymore, but especially early on as a new player it was a good indication if you'd be fighting someone with T2 fittings or metta. It still comes in handy if you need to figure out which character is in which ship you're about to jump into.

I don't really care too much either way about the extractors. Just pointing out that a piece of intel was lost and one that probably mattered more to new players than the rest of us.