You’re taking quite a few liberties with your interpretations.
The A16z thing is an entirely different project (Project Awakening.) It’s not money they can take to run EVE Online or to keep the company afloat.
The Pearl Abyss acquisition allowed them to do things like scarcity, that was very unpopular, but needed to happen for the longevity and health of the game. As for the other reasons for CCP selling, that’s all ramifications that stem back to the summer of rage over a decade ago, well before alphas were introduced to the player base.
If you can fly a Titan after one week of playing, or on an unpaid alpha account, THEN this game is dead.
This game has a pretty unique way of player binding. And it works.
It’s for a separate project. The 40 million is for a cryptocurrency project called project awakening. It has nothing to do with EVE other than using the same ip.
Something that can be added to alpha are the T2 Battlship-size weapons. Like T2 cruise missile launchers etc. Since alphas can already use the T2 versions of medium and small weapons, it makes sense that they should be given access to the Large weapons too, since they also have access to battleships
well the more you call us freeloaders the less likely new players will stay on in this game. And in the end, this game will suffer due to its toxic community
Perhaps, but the major decline in population didn’t come after Alphas were introduced, it came before. Booting Alphas out would cause a major drop in the pcu count, which could potentially cause a failure cascade in server population.
That said, I do think it would be interesting to ban Alphas for a month, just to see what would happen.
So 2006 - 2007? If you even played back then, you’re likely remembering the game with rose tinted glasses. EVE is a much better game now than it was back then.
The truth hurts buddy. I get it. But your piddly little venture mining op is just a drop in the bucket (eve-economy). As for the real revenue being generated, well, freeloaders don’t contribute one iota.
That’s why I think CCP should do away with the alpha clone and go back to a restrictive 2 week trial period.
So what would it take to get you to sub? While ccp has given alphas room to play, and plenty of options to give them money, in the end theyd want you to sub.
