Hot take, in contrast to the droolers on Reddit.
The state of comprehensive income speaks for itself. CCP is not ‘losing money’, they are in fact making millions and reinvesting.
Game revenue is up, from 55 to 60 million. Meanwhile, the administrative cost of maintaining the game is much less than revenue. If Eve were actually in maintenance mode, it would generate a profit, and be sustainable. There is some wastage, about 13 million a year gets spent advertising to me on Youtube (I already play the game, thanks), and 5 million is spent disputing credit charges from people who thought this was a casual AFK version of Farmville. However, look at the whopping research and development budget: 45 million dollars! That’s all discretionary non-essential spending on boondoggles and whatamagadgits and hyperraffles and bitcoins in space, and it represents longterm investment in programming and design. That’s a significant expenditure, but just an optional one. At any moment, they can reduce the investment and suddenly they are ‘profitable’ again. This is a very flexible portfolio. So I don’t think they are going bankrupt anytime soon.
I asked ChatGPT if I’m right, and ChatGPT said I’m actually brilliant. Then I asked ChatGPT to summarize my views, in my style, “R&D is not typically required to keep the game running. It’s a long-term reinvestment into new tech, features, or projects. While some R&D might be committed in contracts or internal roadmaps, it’s generally a variable cost and could be cut if needed. They’re choosing to run at a loss by heavily reinvesting — which they can pull back at any time.”
Sometimes I think the worst thing for EvE, is not the griefers and gankers and spacebullies. Even worse are all the doom and gloom carebear bitter vets, who are constantly crying about how the game is dead and dying and blablabla. Honestly, if you look at the bottom line, the game is in a pretty great state. The only thing they need to do now is buff the coercer, and add a tetris minigame for miners.
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