Legal RMT! \o/
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You might be right. PVP will be only for those who can aford to buy a ship from New Eden Store for real money. Because all those Korean/Chinese games companies are well known how they treat players. As a milking cows. 
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If you believe that. You’re as naive as a 5 year old. Look at gaming’s history and then see if you still believe they won’t be held to specific rules.
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I can see exotic dancers finally becoming alive … I mean animated… you know what I mean … :–)
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You ain’t seen nothing yet. You’re the frog. You’re in the kettle. On the stove. You just haven’t really looked at the temperature dial of the water 
Look, this is business. In the end this trumps everything. And any business venture such as this one can be changed fundamentally. This has always been the agenda, ever since that infamous Newsletter of Greed is Good leaked out.
After that CCP saw the opportunity to coopt Mittani’s stupidity in making the CSM a lame duck and preparing the way to apply marketing and groupthink techniques to derail and distract. It’s a simple agenda.
The only problem was the corporate structure and the old founder tidbits of shares and vc dividends. Well, an additional problem was not getting through doors anymore after stumbling a few too many times.
Look, I’m sure you can still enjoy EVE. But take a bit of advice: sign up for Black Desert Online. Grind through it for a month, no less, and stick to the regular grind gameplay. And you will have figured it out.
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Can we get any promise from a CCP person that they won’t introduce p2w ships/ammo/modules in the New Eden Store? The introduction of $50 golden ammo looks like the biggest concern from the playerbase atm.
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Which is exactly what i said >.>
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No, you can’t. They can give you the same assurances as pre-F2P. Except that when you look at development since, each of those assurances has been consistantly broken. They just kept away from certain core changes. Now, if you look at the actual stipulations - I’m sure it’ll surface somewhere soon - you’ll find that that CCP Games will be in a position of executing according to targets set for them.
Which is shaded a little bit by the external and internal presentation, but as I said earlier, it isn’t hard to dig through marketing. Besides, there’s truly stupid amounts of zero-exception precedents in the industry. It doesn’t matter what they think, feel or want anymore.
Aside of that, on a baseline level, this is an acquisition. It is stipulated as such. It is not a partnership, it is not a publishing deal. Give it 18 months and Iceland will just be a core remnant starting to see things move away under the guise of tech partnership and operations streamlining. Everything you see in Black Desert, will be applied to EVE. Through their methods, their concepts. It just is a matter of boiling frogs.
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Extremely worried about this development, but… will withhold judgement until shenanigans start (or not).
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Wonder if CCP_Seagull saw this on the horizon, and thought its time to abandon ship?
Always wondered why she went.
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Nah. That’s a line that cannot be sold. It’s more advanced than that, and more simple. It’s a behavioural mapping really. As I said elsewhere, play Black Desert Online for a month. That will tell you where it’s going, whether you like it, whether you can afford it, and what the development line and targets are. Keep in mind, even being what they are, Pearl Abyss is still (!) boiling their own frogs. At a quicker pace than CCP, but there’s a curious match between the two there.
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They are taming the cows to milk them. 
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Boy this is really interesting news… Going from one group of investors to another but that other is actually in the business of games…
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We had a good meeting with Hillmar this morning, and I’m confident after the meeting that EVE isn’t going to see any massive cultural changes as a result of this sale. We had a chance to ask a lot of questions, and he was forthright and frank with us. I’m not concerned that Pearl Abyss is going to somehow change EVE or push the game in a direction the developers and the rest of us don’t want it to go.
The speculation is to be expected, but it’s just that.
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Like from under te rain to the barrel full of sharks. 
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To be honest, the first strike for me was Retribution.
The second was skill injectors
The third, and what should have been final, was F2P (alphas)
But I kept playing. Then asset safety for citadels was strike four. And this is strike five.
What I feel… no, what I know I should do, is never look back. But I love EVE. This is legitimately heartbreaking for me, to lose a game I’ve had the single greatest gaming experiences of my life in.
What I’m actually going to do is unsubscribe for now, and monitor the next few expansions to see what direction they take. Maybe I’ll be back in a year or two, or even a few months, but I think this might be the last straw for me. I feel like I’ve been slapped in the face with this one.
Maybe I’m being melodramatic. I have other games to play: Elite, Forza, DCS, Arma with my friends, and I’ve been thinking about checking out Albion Online as well lately. Maybe this is an opportunity to do just that. I’m going to have a lot of free time to fill.
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How much did Hilmar make off this deal?
Have you asked about NOVA?
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'bout three fiddy
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That’s what this kind of acquisition banks on. People not voting with their feet because they recognise the doctrine of boiling frogs
You won’t notice shenanigans. Look up something called behavioural normalisation
As mentioned elsewhere, best approach here is to leave EVE as it is, and sign up for a month of Black Desert Online. Don’t take any shortcut, just do the regular gameplay grind. Keep in mind, Pearl Abyss is also following the format of boiling frogs, so the curve is still developing (and already they have a hard time marketing damage control).
If you can sit through a month of that without having an issue. It’ll be fine for you, for at least 18 months. After which the next cycle begins.
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