Okay, but how does selling crap fit ships at inflated prices to newbros who haven’t yet learned PvP avoidance help them? Oh yeah, that’s going to level the playing field and help newbros find their footing.
These packs don’t help newbros. As far as spending money is concerned, the best value for them, by far, is to get a sub. And even if they wanted to spend more, they’re better off buying plex. And, as far as getting better outcomes is concerned, I’m personally of the opinion that the best thing they can do is to increase their player skill through experience, guides/videos/articles, and community knowledge.
Hell, even Mike Azariah, the guy famous for giving out free ships to newbros signed this open letter. So, I’m not exactly sure how one interprets this as a benefit to newbros. In fact, from where I’m sitting, it looks more like a way to milk newbros for more money.
All those words can be boiled down to the most disingenuous argument an EVE player can make.
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
The children y’all kill over and over until they leave the game. And then you go over to C&P and laugh it up with the other dickwads doing their best to keep the population dropping.
This is not directed at you personally. Just the stupid thing you wrote. The thing far too many of you fall back on when intellectually beaten down by someone.
I was going to qualify that statement with,“There’s only one player I know that actually cares about the children”. But I thought it would muddy up the point I was making.
Edit: Now I feel bad. Would a hundred Incursus make it up to you?
Edit2: Contract is up. It has a week on it.
Because of the introduction of Alpha. Before Alpha the issue was non-existent. And that was right, as the New Eden was effectively insulated from the Terran money, just leaving no legal possibility for P2W.
Yeah CCP you need to take the fitted ship out of the sale, please, this is going to break the ‘Player Driven’ economy u love to use as a - sign up to eve - selling point.
Instead of doing these things you know will antagonize your player base in the first place, why don’t you just try what they’re telling you and introduce way better paid cosmetic options instead? Seems like a no brainer!
Sad really, you are conning the new players into buying the mining pack after you broke the whole point of gaining skills to the point where using the base I’m a no skill miner can mine without loss into a ‘hey look , I can pay real money to buy a pack to get me closer to REAL loss of efficiency - I see no benefit to encouraging new players to purchase something that is broken, other than to rip them off by disguising pay to lose as pay to win and make money doing it…
Why aren’t you asking the more relevant question…which is why are noobs in Ventures being targeted in the first place. Only the other day I saw a case where a 21 day old noob had his Venture destroyed twice in a row…by some ganker who was proud of it ! And you think that is going to keep people in the game ?
Of course people have to learn the ropes…that its a cruel universe…yada yada. But the whole 'dont fly what you can’t afford to lose ’ mantra is meaningless for someone who is left with 5K ISK and a Velator who’s ore hold fills up just in time for the heat death of the universe.
Incidentally…no-one ever tells noobs that it is possible to assemble a mining Venture for just 300K ISK using gaussian lasers. It will only mine 161 m3 per minute, but is way cheaper than the 4m ISK version most noobs are flying around…and far better than the Velator. And it pays for itself in one trip !
That’s great, thank you, but why are you annoyed? The line from CCP doesn’t allay concerns, there’s no apology or suggestion they’ll never sell ships for real money again. There is also a suggestion of further monetisation strategies coming at FanFest - which sounds very similar to the Black Market AH in Albion Online.
Completely agree. Although unless I’ve missed a post, I see a lot of anger at CCP for their monetisation strategy, which is entirely valid, but I’ve not seen any personal attacks on @CCP_Swift. Bit of an appeal to emotion fallacy here.
Wait …
So Brisc and team all-star complains about a thing, and CCP steamrollers on to do the thing. Moreover, it insists the CSM rubber-stamps the thing — and you are okay with that because — well, I’m not sure is it because CSA gets to pat the thing?
I have some re-evaluating to do.
