No, I am not asking for more rewards.
From my point of view as someone in the VAST majority that’s comfotable with a risk/reward balance like that of agent missions and mining, CCP has been adding three kinds of new PvE to the game:
- higher risk PvE, which is not our piece of cake
- lame rewards PvE, which also isn’t our piece of cake
- massive rewards to nullsec’s risk/reward, which is a middle finger to everybody else
What CCP has NOT done for 8 years, is to add content that haves a similar risk/reward as agent missions and mining.
It’s like if CCP was selling all the Coke they can and, instead of bringing more Coke to sell more and earn more revenue, they were trying to sell other beverages with minimal success and arbitrarely buffing the experience for those who picked Brennivin long time ago.
As a Coke consumer, I am appalled that CCP hasn’t introduced more Coke for 8 years (with a single exception) and all we know about CCP’s intent of adding or not more Coke to the game is…
Then there’s the fact that despite everything…a LOT of people play the old missions every day and a lot of people run them for years and years. Feel free to tell me if you think I’m wrong on this next point, but when we look at the numbers, the value proposition of re-directing resources to add new missions isn’t necessarily that convincing.
Straight from CCP Guard’s mouth. (Dev blog: CSM Winter Summit Minutes & changes to election process - #138 by CCP_Guard)
Yes, CCP is saying that, since people already buy all the Coke CCP cares to have, that’s the reason why they don’t need to add new Coke in order to have more Coke buyers and more money. Instead, they will bring different stuff, largely ignored by Coke drinkers, and will arbitrarily and gratuitously give a massive reward to brennivin drinkers aka nullsec.
No, we don’t want more rewards… nor more risk. The very first thing EVERY mission runner will tell you if you bother to engage them is: “missions are fine, but they’re always the same ones, I wonder when CCP will add new ones”. Yeah. Tell them that the last big thing about missions were Epic Arcs and they date to 8 years ago…