Yea, another ex-player.
There’s just so many lately …
This, CSM has been the most nullsec block / bot-apologetic bunch ever since its inception.
They were always part of the of problem.
Seeing them parade now is a bit of a joke, I admit, all past events considered in the last decade …
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Yes, and they all want us forum members to know that they won’t be playing but keeping their stuff and not biomassing, I can imagine the pouting from here, boldly not playing EVE🤭
“Fine then! I will not mine anymore!!” throws ships against the wall 
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Do you feel entitled to my hard-earned stuff ?
Ha! This premise is what Brisc and almost everyone else gets wrong.
CCP has sold SP since the very beginning. More over, ever since they introduced perpetual Alpha account status, selling skills has been CCP’s CORE BUSINESS.
They are no longer in the business of selling entry tickets.
Think about it: what are Omega and MCTs (multiple character training) in essence? It’s skillpoints over time (and the temporary unlocking of skill levels, while Omega lasts).
Combine an Omega+MCT pack and some skill extractors and you essentially arrive at company-made Skill injectors for real dollars.
The hill to die on never was CCP’s generated SPs for dollars. You’d have to go way back in time to skill extractors.
And that battle, is a lost battle by default: the buying power of whales is simply too great everywhere. Even the big MMO publishers never won against goldsellers and associated services, so everyone in the industry concluded: if you cannot beat them, join them.
Introducing PLEX was clever in the sense that it still protected the player industrialists, while satisfying the whales and newbies at the same time. Now CCP is foolishly messing with that old setup.
So here we are. At least in EVE, poor players can gang up and defeat whales in the game.
Sorry I don’t understand the word “entitled”, not in my vocabulary.
Did you think for a second that expected you to give me your stuff…?
smh
Gotta admit I’d prefer their stuff over their vacuous rhetoric.
Poisoning the game from the ultimate safe spot is SO EVE.
:: deep breath :: Parasite cleanses start within. Please forgive my lapse.
I am adamantly against anything that promotes monetization of the in-game experience, other than a subscription fee. Its as Brisc Rubal stated in his open letter - a gross violation of what the game stands for.
@Brisc_Rubal - Are you/the CSM going to make a protest as well during Fanfest?
/signed.
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You implied “stuff”.
And on this forums, usually, when someone else’s “stuff” gets mentioned …
I hope not. But the longer CCP delays in response the more I am inclined to believe they have something seriously embarrassing to hide.
No-one has called for names, or jobs or anything particularly aggressive at all.
The complaint in essence is: why the hell did you not talk to us.?
So the silence is increasingly worrisome.
Perhaps the CSM is indeed defunct.
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At this point, walking out of the keynote speech en masse when monetization is discussed, excepting of a “we’re not doing it anymore”, would be a good indicator to those watching (and hopefully CCP) at how we feel about such things.
Do you have some evidence of that, person who spends all day every day here in GD?
Mr Epeen 
CCP, if it is a player-based economy, don’t compete with us. Pull your levers, add more, but stop competing with those who rely on the industry. If I can’t trust CCP to not intrude on a player economy, then I don’t think I will continue to play. I have never tried to tell CCP anything. I am an average player, not an old bitter vet. I didn’t complain about the scarcity, the industrial changes, etc. I didn’t participate in the Jita riots. That is changing today.
Including a fitted ship in a pack, being one time only or not, is a breaking point, it is the line. This is one of those things that has me wanting to unsub. I may not resub. I give CCP more money a month than any other game (Two accounts with a third previously being considered), I can use that money elsewhere. I can put my time elsewhere. I have bought PLEX with cash. I think I might be done with Eve though.
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still no reply of CCP XD
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hilmar : We do desire the future that people play our game, they feed their families (via game), and can ensure their retirement lives, and blockchains are the way to achieve it. I don’t believe it’s the only way though, should try it at least. That’s how EVEs world last forever, and we share the same goal as cryptocurrencies supporters do.
Oh my ***king God -
It’s a good job they fired their economist because if he’d read this, he’d have died laughing
They know from dealing with the forum warriors for more than a decade that this rage will last exactly until the next “big thing” to have a broken brained meltdown over. Then everyone will simply accept that ship packs are a thing and eventually become advocates for them, turning their anger on those who question why they are in the game.
Just like back when SP went on sale and every one freaked the ■■■■ out. Promising the game would be dead in a month. Swearing they just unsubbed all their characters. You know, the usual malarkey. And now, in this very thread, 10% of the replies are saying , “Yeah, I’m down with buying SP but a one time per acct ship purchase is beyond insane.”
You drama queens brought this on yourselves. CCP know you’re all goldfish brained Chihuahuas. Barking at cars passing by for a minute and then forgetting it ever happened.
Mostly harmless.
Mr Epeen
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That sounds a lot like the real-life media cycle.
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It does, indeed.
Two weeks ago, it was the pandemic that no one is talking about now.
Last week it was the war that no one is talking about now.
This week it is the economy that no one will be talking about next week.
Mr Epeen
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When I started playing two or three years ago I think the number of concurrent players was typically 31,000. If it is now less than 20,000 the problem might be worse than I realized. Unless maybe this is a seasonal change that occurs every year.
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I remember high 40s/low 50s.
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