That is part of PA plan, bring in garisson/housing/farmville elements in Eve Online, Farmville type games in Asia are huge source of revenue, same stuff you have in BDO.
So no adventures, just mining and ratting?
Thats really REALLY depressing.
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Read my lips: WiS is BACK
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sold out …retirement beckons
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My guess at the first game change: Acceleration gate co-ordinates you can buy keys for to get to instanced PvE.
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Isnt that the Abyss?
Khm… PA already bought 100% of ccp.
thank god i didnt buy another years sub
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It was not intended for use, it was just a test.
Are you braindead? Eve didnt have alpha rom start. Your facts are crap do not spread mis informations
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We talked about it since the last funfest when it became apparent, only nobody wanted to hear us.
It’s almost as if the abyss was something they could point at and say ‘See, we can do it this way’, except it’ll be deadspace behind a locked acceleration gate with no known exit point.
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Yeah. Well they dont even need that. Just sell Filaments directly and its all set up.
PvE players want no risk of gank on exit though. It’ll be a very difficult balancing act to introduce this kind of thing though, and I really hope they don’t.
It depends on whether PA want a more diverse portfolio of games in the long run, or are happy with turning everything into generic p2w mmos
What CCP or Hilmar say is irrelevant, this is just the usual motivation/marketing spin. Just read what the new boss is saying about the future, and you will get a more realistic picture.
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You think they will actually turn the Suspect Flagging back on? I doubt it.
I didnt want to agree with the Doom Patrol, but after looking at BDO, I feel very pessamistic about EvE even being recognisable as a game in a couple years.
That’s usually the way it goes is it?
- Company A acquires company B because company B has got expertise in a certain area company A is missing.
- After the acquisition, company A decides that company B operates in a different way company A is used to and instructs company B to change it’s method of operation to bring it in line with those of company A.
- The new method of operation company B is employing naturally has a detrimental effect on company B’s customer satisfaction, etc, etc, etc…
I’ve gone trough a few acquisitions like that in my career and almost all of them have ended in tears with company B either being a shadow of it’s former self (best case scenario) or closing down altogether (worst case scenario).
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this acquisition is not the beginning of the end for Eve O, but I’m not very optimistic.
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I read it… and well he states that they let CCP handle EVE how they want. They dont want to make any changes but want to learn how to maintain a community in the west, because right now they don’t seem to get it, that their Asian marketing doesn’t work over here. (Cash shops)… Also he said he wants joint development of new projects…
I could only find one point which could be effecting eve and that was the: “We want to further out market growth with eve online. We have plans that we cannot share at this point in time”. Sounds like they want to get more people to play eve, i guess either a korean server or investment in gameplay enhancements… but a cash shop wouldn’t help them ^^ so i guess they know they cant do that kind of stuff
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FYI: still fishing near Heidel 
It really depends on if they want to have two different markets. I wouldn’t be surprised if they expanded EvE by cloning BDO to quickly create WiS and Planetary conquest games. This could be done without touching core EvE by using planetside currency instead of ISK for items.
Of course, I’d be less surprised if they just milk the existing game, but I wasborn with cynicism trained to level V.