my .02 isk
Eve is an old game. The player base are aging, and as eve always appealed to the older gamers (back in 2004 the average play age was late 20’s early 30’s) those gamers have other crap start to corp up (family commitments and other things) this is where you lose a group of players
The market in general has changed, players now was free to play, jump in do somehting jump out, type of game play. If you look at the market accorss the boad this is basicly whats going on.
MMO’s are in the decline, though, thats mainly the subscription model, WoW keeps customers because you cna jump in, do a raid and jump out.
EVE has shifted to taking more time to do stuff (jump changes messed with that, in a good way but also having adverse effects)
Other things to note, people consolidated acocunts (jump changes reduced cyno alts, and the new gate structures will do that even more) isboxer broadcast being banned (took out some alts) industry consolidation and rework (lose a few more) cap changes (a few more) etc.
We are coming out of a rebuild phase, in theory, once the structures are out and pos’s are dead ccp can shift to new things to bring in more players. will this pan out? who knows.
CCP as a company base don financials is doing ok. Though with the lay offs in oct that might not be the case this year, we will see soon though.
EVe is basically changing, but the player base for the most part is stable. Will the changes and new things (which i feel will start coming in the end of 2018 after gates are done) bring in new players? who knows.
do what i do, don;t worry about it and just play the game.