EVE General Discussion

edit: scratch that, I'm dumb.

Higher subscription fees and micro-transactions are not necessary, CCP have obviously over-extended themselves by pissing away their money on two projects at once that aren't necessarily going anywhere when they only have one source of income. If they had been patient and simply built up their cash while giving people free content in EVE and working on one game, they wouldn't be in this position now.

The only reason they're trying to push these prices on us is because they're being greedy and shortsighted twats.

Answer is YES .
It is unbelievable but some people indeed play the game for fun, and doing those stuff because they chose to. But unfortunately that fact somehow elude most of the "rage-quiters"

Also to think that all of the players suddenly start doing what they claim to hate, is somehow interesting..

I won't pay a monthly fee and aurum. The moment aurum adds anything other than pretty pony clothes everyone mocks, my 4 subs will cancel (again).

I'd prefer they didn't start down the MT road at all. It adds nothing to me, tempts the devs to paytowin, wastes resources that could have given us crucible months ago, and generated a lot of bad press. And it will be back, and we all know this and are ready to protestagain. That's not good for the game that a lot of the playerbase is simply waiting to riot because we expect them to **** up.

They should have fired the CEO for nearly killing the golden goose as it is. The entire project should be scrapped as a sunk cost, or conversely, as a way to buy back good will.

This.

RMT (lets call it for what it is) is a slippery slope. Lets say that they add something not **** to the nex store and they make lots of money. What's stopping CCP from thinking that "if this useless **** made tons of money, what about useful things?". Subs may drop but then it may be too late as CCP has stated several times that they took the us the paying customers for granted and that mindset is hardly going to change overnight.

RMT is an abomination and does not belong in subscription MMOs especially not sandbox ones.

This. Even if MT can "work", it doesn't fit into the spirit of Eve, and won't provide any functional "bonus".

I totally hate the flawed data mining-trolling attempts of some corporate spooks to see if the "AWESOME" idea of VomitNEX still can be developed by the brain dead greedy thugs from one of the strange and unknown corners of CCP.

it's disgusting and so plain obvious they STILL WANT to go that way without even bothering to recheck the error of their ways.

What will they need? the total destruction of the game? Fresh Blood and entrails giving off steam in the Icelandic snow?

No really, what is this madness still lurking in the shadows of the basement dwelling cancer ridden necrotic flesh in CCP's offices?

Have they not had enough?

What do they want? Souls? To eat the Monads right out of creation into the Saturn Black Hole of absolute Nihilism?

To fuel the ever expanding Black Holes in the Universe with the souls of the crystallized inversed path entities that REFUSE to ascend?

Are they minions of Ahriman itself? Bent on stopping evolution altogether and regressing it into the Void of Pre-Adamite creation?

Why these foul entities continue to thrive and exist in an environment already shown to be hallow ground by the sheer conglomerated photon display against virtual statuary of the masses?

Why the pure Light of Sanity and Reason, Order and Love have failed to eradicate them?

The Balance decrees that the shadows have festered long enough in Iceland, these beings no longer have the astral density to even reside within our Earth upper atmosphere and need to be relegated to the more denser pits of the world, where they will continue to scream in mindless rage at the Logos.

Begone Foul Shadows! You have no place here, your time is past! Pester this New Age no More, for you are Extinct!

3. but only if they did away with Noble Exchange and made it so there was something like World of Warcraft's tailor profession but for all clothing with all the vanity items being made by players. If not (which they probably aren't), 1. but only if it stops at clothing. Anything else (anything, even ship colours), i'm not okay with and will probably unsub.

Looking at the options from the POV of someone who's been paying a Sub for a while and is then presented with the 3 options:

1. So, you're saying you went and spent Dev time that my Sub has been paying for to produce this, and now you want me to pay for it again?

2. So, you're saying that EVE's current subscription price does not cover the cost of continuing development? *Looks pointedly at the acquisition of White Wolf, the development of DUST 514 and WoD* Then why are investors giving you money to develop games when your 8 year old project is losing money?

3. Cool, fulfilling the business plan laid out in your advertising. Free, regular content expansions and access to a game for ~$15 a month (but you might want some alts )

From that POV, number 3 seems like the only way not not cause Riots among your customers.... Oh wait Option 1 kind of did cause Riots.