They are people who long ago gave up trying in EVE…but they can’t bear that anyone might now do better than they did and surpass their supposed legacy. So they come on to poison the well and put off any new contenders.
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I see a deepening investment.
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This is much more likely to be accurate. We’re just not sure to what extent the side assets (Frontier, Vanguard) are impacting EvE Online’s profitability and how much this is being massaged.
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Even the allegedly untrue internet post didn’t cite CCP’s unprofitably as a reason for the sale - instead, it specifically outlined that CCP was bought primarily for access to their development team (why rent when you can buy) and the trademark IP. The primary goal was to develop an EvE adaptation for cellphones. Now that this is no longer PA’s goal, there is no reason for the collaboration to continue. Allegedly.
Of course, this is all rumormongering, since the only source is an unverifible internet post. What isn’t a rumor is the financial sheet, which shows that CCP has plenty of ballast to shed (research and marketing) before they need to consider cuts to the game itself. All you doom and gloomers are doing is demoralising and discouraging new players, and gatekeeping them from developing a little faith in the game. You are the same people who complained about PA’s tentacles ruining EvE, and now you are onto a new conspiracy theory. Just calm down.
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You seriously don’t get that all companies try to make themselves falsely look better for sale??? C’mon man…
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Shaigh, please do not rumormonger.
There is no evidence for your allegations.
Let’s stick to the FACTS.
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Pearl Abyss and CCP are caught in a catch 22 where they have been chomping at the bit to monetize the game, but had to slow-walk it out of fear that players would leave the game if they caught on to what they were trying to do… After the sale to Pearl Abyss, they started to monetize the skins to where they now have all the best skins monetized… And now they have started in on monetizing the ships… The catch 22 is that if they dig into monetizing the ships, the ship manufacturing community will scream bloody murder and leave the game…and rightly so because they are stealing the game away from the players out of pure greed… So their choices have come down to either pushing forward with monetization and bloodletting even more players because of it, or dumping the game while the dumping is good to cut future losses… It’s that simple…
Looks likes Vanguard will be monetized before release , pew pew guys , pew pew 
Lol… Gank while the ganking is good… 
I don’t think Eve is financially ruinous to PA, but it is cerrtainly in decline in terms of players, and PA are likely of a mind that now is the best time to minimise their loss on a failed investment. The fact that they’re willing to take a $100m+ haircut tells you that the profitability is more complex than just not spending on R&D.
Opposite is true
At this point both of those statements are just rumor mongering. None of us know for sure.
But here’s the thing, it doesn’t matter because PA has the actual numbers, and if CCP would lie about the numbers that would be against the law and certain people could get into a lot of trouble for that.
So in the end PA will make its decision based on the actual numbers, whatever they may truly be. So despite all the speculation here and on r/Eve, PA will act if it feels it has more to gain from selling, and will base its decision on actual facts, and nobody can do anything about it.
Just the same if in the end CCP is indeed sold and the new owner turns it into farmville in space no PvP or just shuts it down and does whatever with the IP, nobody can do anything about that either.
And probably nobody will know either if it is sold and if it is turned into something else / shut down by the new owner, it will be a surprise to the playerbase, maybe even CCP itself.
EVE is profitable but there is no real growth, and the promise of growth through extra titles and add-ons never materialised. Investors want growth.
Given that EVE is just a small portion of their revenue they’re probably just wanting to get rid of it. Frankly, I never understood why they bothered in the first place.
Some people mentioned they wanted a mobile EVE or something and/or access to Chinese markets (which through a partner company in China they do) but I haven’t researched how accurate those comments are, but if they are but in the end the thing didn’t work out or PA changed strategy and no longer needs those then it can lead to them no longer be interested in CCP.
I play DDO while mining in new Eden for some real PvE - my stacked bleeds from my longbow take down many Sahuagin and Orcs.
I would rather they spent their time trying to come up with an EVE 2.0.
Give up the old code that no one understands anymore. And find a find a balance if that’s even possible?
Will (or should) it keep submarine physics or it will introduce a more realistic approach?
uhm… oh… he he… i know! i know! o/
it’s that other spaceship game, no? 
While that also passed my mind I am genuinely asking (even if just a thought experiment) if there will be an EVE 2.0 (where everything is rewritten, and there is an opportunity to alter things) should it keep the current physics or should it make it more realistic (even if not outright Newtonian physics but something more similar, or if that is the choice a fully Newtonian game).
EVE was designed, greenlighted and created by gen-X (and some lost boomers). Gen-X has a “deal with it, suck it up, spit it out” mindset and approach to things and that is reflected very much in EVE.
Right now games are controlled and designed by millennials which results in weak, soft and virtue signalling nonsense. Just look at how they pretty much removed the lore between the factions in EVE, because we can’t have THAT sort of strife and oppression!
We’ll have to wait for Zoomers.
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