CCP built this game on a long term goal. On making a great game. They mostly failed at it, but they were sincere in their desire.
PA cares about having something impressive to show at the next quarterly investor meeting. They’ll have no problem laying off half the employees to do it. Or removing null and low sec. This isn’t a game for them. It’s an investment. It doesn’t matter if every single current player quits as far as they’re concerned.
I and at least 6 people I know have pledged to quit if niarja goes final liminality. In total its around 30 accounts unsubbed (I know high profile gankers, and have 9 accounts personally) so $450, and thats just me and my friends. Due to the botting problem in dodix and rens routes, we can’t gank there despite reporting all the bots. Also, there is 1 non bot that plays 20 hours a day (you know who it is) that AGs too. Either nerf AG, ban the bots, or give back Niarja.
You should have been around in 2012 when the game went from apx 50k on fri/sat nite to 20k. You have no idea what CCP is willing to do. At this point, neither do I!
People act like CCP had something to do with this, they set the rules to the invasion and Niarja was on the list, its the players who are deciding to turn it Triglavian.
People will adapt, a corp/alliance willing to get organized will probably be able to work around this using Jump freighters, there’s great profit in overcoming little changes like this, since prices in the Amarr Regions will no doubt rise as a result of this. I hope there will be more of this, shake things up a bit, the fact that the trade hubs haven’t really changed in more than a decade is a sign of game stagnation IMHO.
I wouldn’t mind, but nullsec? seriously? If it was just “get positive standing or die”, that would be ok. Making it nullsec is just going to make it a dead system, like the others. Hell, NS would be fine if it only lasted for a certian amount of time or could still be reversed.