What’s next to come? Maybe something like “we’ve also decided to take an Alliance Tournament [EVE] hiatus while we look at how we can better support competitive PvP (…) in the future”?
Oh man,
I took a break and then this ? I was behind you guys when you sold to PA, I stuck with you through the horrible changes to Sov and chasing nerds down in inties and now you take away the AT and abandon the part of the community devoted to it. This game was my first love in the MMO genre, the community is the BEST in the gaming industry and most of the Devs are the best in the world. I hope that next year you guys will reconsider and reinvent this because it is a HUGE part of EvE Online.
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And i thought this years AT would be a no brainer - Abyssal Arena with different effects every round and triglavian themed price ships.
This is really verry sad…
Dear Pearl Abyss can you please interrupt CCP from hurting themselves? This event had a very good impact on returning players from summer vacations. This way only thing left of CCP will be hiatus.
Because CCP Falcons post is BS they are lying to our face. Like balances ? Really? CCP had been forgoing balance for years now. Balance is a scapegoat to bring bad news.
This is what happens when CCP stopped DUST 514 development, it’s been downhill from there since there’s nothing Ambitious happening.
The Sale to Pearl Abyss is THE sign that the ship is sinking
If I have to chose between AT and more changes to the game, I would always vote against the AT. I don’t really get much out of the AT to begin with so, unspurprising.
With that said, I still hope you deliver on the promise that it will return. Better not break that promise.
F for respects.
The Fanfest in Iceland and the AT were two events I looked forward to. The World Tour does not interest me as I doubt watching it will be the same watching the unified Fanfest.
CCP. IF you have any PR advisors, then they should be fired. You have come out with at least two negative pieces of publicity which were bound to be unpopular yet have not even tried to couch them with any good news, just stuff you can’t talk about. You are getting the reaction you deserve. Please try and announce something really positive very soon to counter this PR fail.
So, no Fanfest and now no Alliance Tournament. And you just got taken over. Read between the lines boys and girls; eve is going to be plundered for cash by the new owner. They will use everything they can to generate cash - and DILIGAF about the player base and the game ……
This is the first sign that Eve is genuinely dying, when the game’s owner’s literally do a Les Grossman but don’t have the courage to say it to our faces.
Wow. Never really had goals to be a participant in AT, watched it when I could, but TZ and all… I did however, enjoy that others got so into it…
This just feels like you’re giving up CCP.
It’s a big " We don’t really care."
Message received… Loud and clear.
Can we just get rid of pvp altogether? It’s getting in the way of my lootbox events and 50 rorq mining operation under the delve capital umbrella, and honestly there’s no point to it anyway anymore.
“lets remove the only thing we consistently somehow managed to keep good”
great idea !
fire whoever came up with this
At skins and ships as mega rare lootbox drops (that you can randomly get while mining). Just buy a key with plex and away you go! Calling it.
so CCP… it seems you underestimated the massive shitstorm that you managed to create… your excuse of “Balance” is lazy. I came back to eve 6 months ago after 5 years away, and the “Balance” issues are still there… same ■■■■, different year.
just pull the damm plug if you are not gonna put any effort in the community any more CCP
I really like this post for 1 main reason, eve was slowly dying with small changes killing it Citadel’s (overly safe nullsec), Cap supremacy (barrier to free engagement), RLML and the killing of signature tanking (ship viability restrictions) and now removal of AT (what is there left to hype people to be great like they’re hero’s if they cant even see they’re hero’s?).
All these small change’s have been going unnoticed for awhile now, but Eve really needed a massive hit like this to catch a wake up and reverse swing, putting eve into a good direction again.
Start over and re-imagine what you need eve to be for players to stay attracted to it! Big blob warfare focus 100% with no thought of solo / small gang / AT / Balance focus has been proven now to have a massively bad impact, do something about it or sink.
If you pay attention to this thread / reddit / twitter you will notice that all sorts of players from all kinds of backgrounds enjoy AT and they are quite sad / upset about this as well. Sure, it may mean more for people like Casper and I, but it did also matter much for other groups. It was a large event that did involve thousands of players whether they were in the arena or not.
This alone tells me it’s game over.
Keep baiting your customers, string them along longer with empty promises, we’ve seen it all before.
Hope it’s not a content cut.
Actually i think the form of AT is too far from the current meta. The small gang fight AT represent is dying in EVE for some time. In current meta, capitals vs capitals seems make more sense (i know it will boring).
I think small gang fight is a really enjoyable experience to fill between big sov fights and CCP really should shift the meta to bring it back.