In the latest video " DEV Chat - Global Plex Market" on the EVE Online YouTube channel, CCP Rattati said some things that are extremely relevant to my last post.
CCP Rattati - “and I also think it kind of sucks, form an LP perspective, that there’s not also just like a, really cool things that you buy for yourself in LP stores. It always gets reduced to this kind of ISK per hour calculation. There’s no aspect of loyalty, where you buy a soul bound thing or something. Where you’re actually I earnt this. I have level 10 rank, I have standings… why don’t I get special stuff? Why is it all the same?.. It could be cosmetic, it doesn’t have to be pay to win or anything else… but how do I show that I’m a loyalist?”
In the whole video this is what I’m most excited about. I don’t assume that CCP Rattati is replying specifically to me, however, his words validate my prior post.
At this stage it is a hypothetical, I expect no immediate changes. CCP Rattati does say they have plans around LP, more likely next year. And that is very exciting, I’m totally here for it!
I’ve made a clip form the YouTube video and made it public access.
Well, hope for the best but prepare for the worst.
Best case: it means CCP is thinking about adding some more personalized or themed or status items to the game and mechanics to obtain them. Which is good for the 20% of players who care about those things, I guess. (Just my personal guesstimate, for EVE, where cosmetics play a much smaller role than in other games.)
Worst case: it means CCP is thinking about how to spin their plan to make valuable drops and items character bound, thereby removing them from the market system. And then say “We did this because you the players really wanted it!”.
It’s probably not hard to figure out which scenario I think is more likely.