CCP has always had a great sense of humour…
They named the latest expansion “Into the Abyss”, then sold their company to Pearl Abyss !
Priceless ! 
pinched from another forum , but love it.
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I can’t go into details as to what we discussed directly or any facts we were given, I can simply give you my impression and my understanding based on my RL experience.
This looks to me as an up and coming asian MMO company that is public and has cash to make acquisitions recognized that CCP is a stable, profitable company and they are diversifying. That means, at least to me, that CCP will continue to have control for the foreseeable future.
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Increase stimuli for multiple accounts
Increase stimuli for compensating for time requirements
Increase stimuli for shortcuts on ability requirements
Increase stimuli for shortcuts on economies of scale requirements
And so forth. This is PA’s forte. They map out this kind of stuff, it’s behavioural psychology, they identity the trigger points and provide commercial stimuli for exactly those triggers while upping the requirements for alternative approaches like grind or time.
In null most of this has already been internalised. Want a super? Got to have a FAX. Neither can be used for making ISK reliably so got to have a farm for either resources or skillpoints. Rinse, repeat.
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An additional tier will now exist above CCP, as PA.
How much they interfere/influence in CCPs development/deliberation on EVE remains to be seen.
Hell, might even turn out that Goons or others find a way to work together with PA, past CCP, if they can offer some guarantee of them buying P2W or delivering on grind content for example, thus leaving CCP crunched inbetween a rock and a hard place.
Goons in particular would probably love P2W to further cement their control in EVE.
/me pointed at that 3 or 4 hrs ago never mind
What I’m failing to understand Pred’, judging by your post history, is why you’re here at all… You seem to have a negative opinion on absolutely everything Eve.
Me? I’ve recently returned after years of absence, and was sorely disappointed to read the news of the buy-out - in which it’s clear that CCP will exist in spirit alone after October.
[Edit for typo]
IF you say something, don’t lie. Otherwise just stay silent.
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The goons, all of them lost this game. Hilmar won, drops mic and is leaving the stage with milllllllions.
His shares, they were just bought.
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Heck, they should have just sold Delve with everyone and everything in it.
ehm what control? 100% sold. You know what that means, right? They have zero control now. New owner will evaluate what he bought and will improve where he think he can do better. If they want to act like with their own player base then CCP have nothing to do with it. For me it’s simple why it is not for you? EA bought most gaming developers in the world, bought devs have “control” on something, they just ask “how high” when they told to “jump”?
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He sold his shares?
Source?
All chicken little can send their stuff to me.
That is all. 
Drigo
Sold all CCP, 100%, he said that already when asked. The sorce is in this thread. By me.
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PA doesn’t buy because a company is stable 
They buy because a company has something interesting but has been stumbling. You didn’t wonder why the pricetag is so much lower than the valuations pre-F2P and the VR issues?
CCP made what, roughly 2.6 mil or so from four different ventures with a lot of creative bookkeeping and writing off costs while still getting most of the funding from third parties. That’s not stable. That’s the hallmark of a company which has a good thing but is unable to branch out.
Now keep in mind that impression follows from exposure which is designed to create a required effect. You’re not addressed as equals or variables. You are addressed as instruments. Purpose defines everything.
We probably should not go into CCP’s bookkeeping on this forum, but I’m sure at least one or two people on the current CSM can get their hands on CCP’s publications of the past few fiscal years. Suffice to say that there are very good reasons beyond personal wants, age and investor relations for why CCP decided to go F2P and starting shopping for a buyer. Then consider how long it actually took to find a serious one. Then consider why CCP had to combine different commercial planning segments for a single match rapid timeline. 40 mil in the bank after so many hoops of restructuring and cost cutting (to name but two things) isn’t a grand result of liquidity. It’s a sign of crunch.
Anyway, that doesn’t really matter. It’s just less than subtle signs which indicate that you are dealing with marketing, not with information, and not with personal relations. So just don’t bank on it. And maybe, consider that CSM is CCP’s instrument. Not yours, not that of customers
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Where?
Is it in the article on dev blog?
Didnt see that there.
BRING OUT YOUR FREE STUFF
Look, the reply again, you unbeliever…
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Aww come one. It’ll be awesome! They can do amazing things! CCP and PA are a perfect match. The DNA is there! They can revive old ideas and spend available liquidity on those while shifting tech between them! It’ll be awesome!
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Peta, you, shush, you points finger
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Read again