No offense, but someone that joined the game seventeen days ago should be listening and not offering input to something he has no clue about.
But if you want an apt analogy, go with dealer and addict. Tango implies a mutual pairing of equals and this is not even remotely like the relationship between a game company and its players.
Yea, I actually thought of the dealer and addict before you posted. People make a similar excuse. If you take out the dealer another will rise in his place because of the âdemandâ but I argue if the dealer had never been around there never would have been demand. Kind of like the age of horses versus cars. Ask someone back then what they would want out of transportation (the demand) and theyâd say a faster horse. Not a car. Same thing applies to drugs and even here.
The issue isnât why theyâre doing itâs how theyâre doing it.
Theyâre screwing up their image so badly that even non-players are disgusted by this and think that the company is a joke. Yes, CCP needs to sell crap in order to meet their quarterly targets so that the big boys get their bonus checks, but theyâre wording their copy in the most obnoxious manner possible, and despite massive negative feedback, they seem to be either unaware of what theyâre doing, or this is in fact their intent. And if itâs the latter, then thatâs super-scary because it creates the appearance that theyâre developing and promoting this game out of spite.
âŚin the insular bubble of the EVE-O forum, r/EVE and other such places that are home to whiny, entitled âEVE intelligentsiaâ. And maybe some âlook at meâ clickbait channels.
Just out of curiosity @Mr_Epeen , I think I remember you from old forums as quite a passionate capsuleer who helped newbies etc etc. Why so change, what happened? Are you not playing anymore and just wish this game to die / to turn into a monstrosity? Or is this just genuine trolling? I canât imagine someone who even remotely cares about the game to be okay with this change and to actually continue playing the game. I mean you must be aware of the results this change of mentality would bring here.
I find the âCCP is a company, so it has to behave pathologicallyâ argument interesting. Is this what BP should have said after their big oil spill? Or Bernie Madoff after he got in trouble? Or some car company that cuts costs and ends up killing people?
So youâre upset that paying players can buy skills, skins and other cosmetics in a package?
Is this because you think sp gives you an edge, and you donât want to compete?
Is this because you canât afford the new package, and think it should disappear?
Is it because you spent years on skills and think itâs unfair that things change?
As usual, people whine that you can buy stuff with real money. Any new change is a game killer, 20 years ago was best time, and you donât even have to wake up at 2:16am to set your skill queue.
This is a video game that has lasted for almost 2 decades. Itâs ground breaking for multiple reasons. Of all the things you want to whine about, itâs that you can pay money for a skill injector? One time.
Get absolutely bent.
Itâs more of the fact that CCP themselves, several different devs, and recently another one has stated that they would not directly sell skillpoints to the players⌠this is effectively what they have done.