So, basically you are keeping the status quo, just with a different company with deeper pockets in the background? Got it. That’s all you had to say…
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With prominent players in the community publicly stating their opinions and unsubscribing from the game, do you have anything to say that might keep them around?
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It shares IP, but it is not connected to EVE, kept seperately.
Nova (PC DUST spiritual successor) is almost definitely going to be revealed in full at Vegas.
They also want to connect the two games, but it won’t be the first goal when releasing Nova - they want to make it a polished product on its own.
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Concerning current monetization efforts:
We all know CCP needs to maintain the hamsters in the servers with cash. Other than recent monetization efforts, such as skins, plex, etc., can you share future monetization plans?
The community as a whole, I think, agrees that more cosmetics is fine, and we’ll pay for them. But what we don’t want to see are lootbox or tiered upgrade based mechanics. Can you provide any concrete comments on the monetization roadmap?
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if these financial targets arent met, are they critical for CCP and if so what suffers as a result and what revenue boosts to CCP could be leveraged to meet the targets?
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Not yet connected. Hilmar already stated at FF the goal is to link them eventually but only when it’s ready.
They are not answering hardball questions
Please use the whiffle bat next time
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Hey, Zander!
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Not directly but every feature needs to have a business case. It’s an isk sink for one! People are losing blingy ships in there. Some of those players also buy PLEX I’m sure. It’s intended to give people a fun feature that makes them more engaged and keeps them coming back to EVE…it’s gone down pretty well overall in that regard. So to answer the question a little more broadly…we are always looking for new ways to optimize the business of EVE, we’ve been doing that in many ways for years and will continue doing so. But we believe that works best when we do it in a way that EVE players are happy with.
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No, I’ve seen nothing that makes me think that and logically it also just doesn’t make sense to me.
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Nope, CCP has money in the bank and makes a healthy profit. The investors were ready to sell and others were ready to buy, that’s about it
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- CCP’s products are first and foremost aimed in a niche market. While PA has the mentality of en masse produced product, with a low cost entry for the consumer, and various premium additions. How does this difference of mentality is viewed from CCP?
There’s both differences and similarities really - I think there’s lots that we can learn from eachother’s development models.
- Will we see in the future a more business oriented roadmap-the likes of EvE development roadmap, for the various business projects of CCP? Do you think this is something that must be communicated? There was many instances in the past where CCP communicated a lack of resources over various projects but apparently the company is healthy enough(both in level of product but also financially as CEO Hilmar stated there were around 40 million in cash reserves.)
Not sure what you’re asking for here, but there’ll be more information on what’s coming for EVE in 2018/2019 at EVE Vegas.
Hilmar will be out there, and will be presenting, so you should come along or tune in. We’ll be broadcasting it for free if you can’t make it.
- Will PA transfer resources to CCP to enlarge the studio and throw more development for CCP? Will they lead the development if that happens or CCP?
Not something that’s really been discussed at this stage - it’s super early in the relationship so there’s not really a lot of info we can give on this.
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@CCP_Falcon @CCP_Guard
I’m making a shameless self-quote, but have you actually played BDO? Like really played-played it? What I am saying here is the trainwreck state of BDO, got any thoughts?
Will at ships be rereleased?
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Connect port 26000 is bugged again!!! 
Will this mean we will finally get hello kitty widow skins? ccpls
@CCP_Falcon What’s the status on the EVE store? Any updates on potential 3d models we can buy?
When the deal was closed were there any celebrations between CCP and AP representatives and how many male exotic dancers were involved?
Any funny anekdotes concerning the transaction/deal?
- Will PLEX purchase rates remain the same?
No plans to change anything in this respect.
- Will Omega Subscription rates remain the same?
Or this respect…
- Will Alpha and Omega Clone states within game remain the same?
… or this respect, however over time I’m sure that the benefits of both clone types may evolve - they already have done since we released Acesnsion.
- Will Character Service rates for Transfers, MCT’s, Extractors, etc, remain the same?
No plan to change this either.
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Sheep?
Hey,
a fellow newbro here and i got one question/concern. If, lets say in a year, Pearl Abyss approaches you Falcon/Guard and ask you directly to implement a change you personally know is RIDICULUS (p2w stuff…): How do you react? Please try to think into this situation. Are you obliged to do what ever they want you to do? (Regardless of how PA’s current state of mind is)
Im asking this, because i came from Black Desert Online, which was the worst experience i had in my life with gaming before. EVERY Update felt like they dont play their own game. And this is certainly true. I fell in love now with Eve and dont want it to go down the same drain : (.
Thanks for answering!
Kind Regards
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I herd there is a nice floating nyx model coming out soon…