An Open Letter to CCP from Current and Former CSM Members on the "Prospector Pack"

It doesn’t matter what a mom’s basement-dwelling virgin like you wants, it matters what the hundreds of millions of normal, well-adjusted gamers with jobs and money want, you stupid moron griefer.

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My mother says I’m not allowed to leave the basement until we can afford a proper dowry.

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lol that was fast.

I think people are missing the point that their cute little Retriever complaints are a drop in the bucket and don’t even begin to register on the scale of negative feedback with regard to the “issues” that are “holding back” or “hurting” this game.

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I read that stuff and I simply can not believe they are talking about EVE. “impossible to get anything done solo”, “I started grinding because I enjoy grinding but now I hate grinding and grinding is the whole game. This sucks”.

Am I wrong? Are they wrong?

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I sometimes wonder if the average steam EVE player is similar to the average EVE player.

Many of those steam comments show such a lack of EVE knowledge that it seems they just installed a random F2P game that seemed interesting, got surprised by the harsh nature of EVE by losing a ship, posted a rage review and quit.

I would expect that people who look for EVE outside of a platform that provides games at the click of a button would have put more effort in learning what kind of game they were about to play. As such, I expect the average EVE player to be a bit different than the average Steam EVE player.

But maybe my expectations are too high.

(Edit: wait why are we talking about steam reviews in the open letter thread?)

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When you’re dealing with a sample size in the tens of millions, you will effectively get 100% overlap.

I know this isn’t the answer that most EVE players (many of whom believe that they’re somehow “special” for playing the game) want to hear, but it becomes a simple mathematical truth at that point.

Because it’s proof for the argument that no significant amount of people cares about something like CCP selling a cash shop mining barge.

This isn’t the straw that finally broke the camel’s back, because the camel was already ground up into glue and dog food some time in 2007.

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This is not a discussion about what Destiny believes or what disgruntled reviewers believe, it is about what past and current elected representatives believe.
Don’t let CCPs silence about what it believes it is doing let your attention wander off topic. Enticing as the dangily tread bait may be.

Lol

All the snowflakes … I can’t bear it …

They don’t deserve this game and neither do we, anymore.

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What do the past and current elected representatives believe? All they believe in is having their wealth creation opportunities maximized. This is nothing but grabbing at a low-hanging, convenient opportunity to perform some grandstanding. Where was the CSM when CCP was flipping systems based on their alignment with the Chinese server, or when they decided to create a bunch of new gates without player input? Where was the CSM when CCP added genuine instanced content to the game? Where was the CSM when CCP was, over the course of many years, chipping away at this game’s integrity by changing the fundamental structure of its system of player interaction?

Every single time that the CSM crawled out of their maggot-ridden holes in the ground concerned some kind of cash shop debacle.

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loool

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Steam is a lot like Mos Eisley in a lot of ways. Only it’s got a little more of a reddit Roach Motel vibe to it. So, no, the average steam eve player is probably not like the average Eve player, and especially not like the average Eve player of the 2010’s-20.

Supporting the CSM and ex CSM members . This is crossing a line a big time!

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It’s not clear if you are signing the original OP’s letter (are you on the CSM?) or you are signing the Steam review protest?

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I do not support them selling SP directly. I do support skill injectors and the concept of skill injectors. I acknowledge that they have sold SP directly enough that there’s no way for us to really effectively tell them not to do it anymore, even if it does reflect them going back on a promise they made.

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As if the pack alone was not bad enough, it now also is an in-game advertisement?

CCP, are you for real?

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And no pve-farm-trash-mobile game would be complete without heavily monetised cash grabs like this.

Like I said, the players asked for this.

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It wasn’t meant to be an exhaustive statement.

I am pretty ■■■■■■■ livid right now, not gonna lie.

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It’s irrational to criticize the CSM for speaking out now, because (supposedly) they didn’t speak out before. Even if that were true, it does not invalidate their current criticism.

The sale of in-game items will undermine one of the most compelling aspects of EvE gameplay. A primary reason people play this game is because it has an economy where items are produced, distributed, and sold by actual players.

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You don’t even play the game.

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