Now that Eve Online has new Overlords, will you guys create new portraits for your characters?
By the way, can somebody please get a box for CCP Guard to stand on for his portrait.
Thanks for taking the time to host this AMA here on the Official Eve Online Forums.
I figure CCP has to deliver substantial revenue for the next 6-24 months.
If it does not, it will not receive the conditional âbonusâ payment, and no doubt PA will descend upon it and start restructuring it to squeeze more money out of both CCP itself and its remaining client base.
I apologise in advance as Iâm not a CCP employee but I believe I can offer you an answer anyway, although it may not provide much comfort.
Weâre being told nothing will change because thatâs presumably what PA told CCP.
However, note the direction of the dialogue. If CCP were truly in control of EvE then it would be CCP telling PA nothing will change. A subtle yet significant difference! So, CCP remains in complete control of EvE as long as PA wants them to but beyond that there are no guarantees. There canât be.
As to your second point, EvE has been profitable the last few years so there is no immediate reason why PA would intervene now because âif it ainât broke why fix itâ. They may be content to allow the game to prosper for the time being and reap the profits. There are other reasons why they might have bought CCP which Hilmar mentions in his interview - itâs not just for EvE online. However, itâs also the case that EvE is no longer growing as it once did and regardless, (in any game) changes are inevitable over time. What part PA will play in those remains to be seen.
So CCP, you are saying there are âno plansâ to do this or that.
Are we supposed to just believe that? You have a contract stating CCP have full creative control over what EVE becomes?
I find this hard to believe.
Or is this a classic âbait and switchâ where you say, âOh! No plans to do this nowâ and later⌠âPlans have changed, yeah weâre doing Pay2Win and lootboxesâŚâ
It would be unfortunate if they didnât get into the Bonus Room after all the hard work, agreed.
Dear CCP
Is this true?
GamesBeat: Why do you want to acquire CCP?
Jung:⌠I feel that we share common DNA as game developers who create top-quality MMOs, and together will be able to build upon our strengths to take us to the next level.
What does it even mean? Marketting rubbishâŚ
Sure, but until now theyâve done every AMA on reddit and Iâd like to hear their reasons to change that m.o. now. Pretty sure they usually appreciate the publicity that comes with reddit.
So what iâm getting here is that CCP is trying to us this is more of a marriage than an outright sale.
So, while the marriage makes this a union, theyâre still not quite equal partners. Theyâll have a shared identity, shared assets (as far as the home), and any development from here on out will be sharedâbut that the things that each brought into the marriage are going to remain in the possession of the original partner.
Its just that, in a way, CCP has now hyphenated their name, so that in this marriage, the advances in the family (the IP developed) are going to be the property of PearlâBUT, that CCP and EVE itself, the thing brought into the marriage (dowry), will still be the property of CCPâthe lesser marriage partner.
Sounds like, should the need arise, Pearl has made CCP sign a pre-nup (or CCP made them sign it!?). As an investor, theyâre in love with the same thingâbut they want to keep things separate enough so that, IF the investment doesnât work, CCP can be let go in a divorce.
Just my take form falcons comments.
Maybe they finally realized r/eve is a cesspool.
You should grow some balls 
You are mistaken.
PA owns CCP and everything it has, hook line and sinker.
This is not a marriage, its transfer of ownership 100%.
Falcon was traumatized in Catholic school as a child.
A company CEO canât talk rubbish to journalists, because it will influence on shares percentage.
Itâs the first Jungâs order to build visually luxurious F2P-P2W MMOs on both PC/Mobile platforms. Iâm curious about ânext levelâ phrase - itâs referred to P2W or to visual luxuriously?
The Nun (2018)
This is the correct answer. CCP will be able to maintain itâs âindependenceâ so long as the numbers are satisfactory. If that starts to flounder, the meddling from PA will begin. If nothing else, because PA shareholders will demand it.
What makes you think CCP was independent before this buyout? They were owned by a financial group who probably mainly focussed on the bottom line. They are now owned by a GAMING ORIENTED investment group who may have some less desirable options built into other titles but who at the same time may be very much aware of the fact these things will not work in EVE like they do in BDO.
Yup - Hilmar met with us about an hour and a half after the news went public, so he caught much of the same concerns from us that the playerbase had. That speaks volumes to me about the weight of trust that CCP continues to put into the CSM, at every level.
Weâll continue to talk to CCP and help pick out the signal from the noise of community feedback to direct at the relevant teams. If you have specific concerns, the CSM isnât going to be able to say âno that wonât happenâ, but weâll fight for the same line of not affecting gameplay/locking features behind paywalls/adding grind you can âbypassâ that the community is rightfully afraid of.