I didn’t … i’m not so smart ( Too Trusting )
A logical point yes… But i’m sure CCP helped it along. Like the whole preception that the market is actually player driven ( the biggest lie in eve ). When a PLEX Sale is on… do you really think they will allow the market to drop naturally as people dump mass amounts making the price dive…
… or do you think they will inject market orders to hold the price as it is right now 2.7 Million.
this is just like Real World Stock Market. It is pitched as supply and demand… but the reality is the market is manipulated just like the real world. Most people are honest… so they don’t see that aspect.
Theres no point not posting on a main as no one is bothered providing comeuppance anymore. Its not 2009 anymore, no one cares.
Exactly… that guy was just WAY to into himself. Probably has a mirror on his computer desk so he can check his hair while he’s playing on the computer. No one can see him but him… but that’s all that matters. Probably wears a nice polo too with dress slacks and tight shoes. Not to mention the prostitutes to cheer him on from his bed as he sits in a retriever mining asteroids on 4 mining alts and 1 orca
Huh? I thought you said you were an alt?
Ya I am…
… I don’t feel the need to drag in my MOSTER-EGO into the forum for psych support
A decade later, I’m still looking for that angel of death who will finally extricate me from this madness.
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At least one person who was in an Alliance I destroyed about a decade ago is still playing.
Some day I hope to see them to put me put of my misery when Im more decrepid too.
Wierd coincidence there.
CCP is the most untrustworthy company I have dealt with in regards to digital goods. They do not value their own IP or their customers attachment to it. Reissuing items listed as limited, last chance, one time only is about as dishonest as a company can get.
At their 1/4 shareholder PA talk was about CCP’s digital assets & NFT’s, pay to play, paid to play schematic. I could not imagine a company more ill suited than CCP to that model owing to their dishonest accounting of their current IP.
Mitigating for them, I can only suggest that CCP has the corporate memory of a goldfish owing to high staff turn over and also the Rambo leadership practices of middle management. Which is surprising as they have swords and ■■■■ which suggest a pretty well defined culture which should be respecting previous practise but nope it is the wild west with management. I suspect several will be getting Falcon punched out of the door owing to slump in player numbers these last 1/4’s despite the pandemic which ought to boost numbers as it has for near all other MMO’s.
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After 10 years of playing EVE without interruption, I trust that CCP will screw up even the most well-meaning thing for this game and I trust even more that certain people find apologies for the screw ups and warp the failure to look much better than it in reality is. So, a definitive No-Yes.
An well and good analysis. I don’t want to get too far off subject (giving moderators and excuse to shut this thread down (which they will probably do anyway))… but would you mind elaborating on the NFT thing? Are you saying they are moving to Crypto Payments and possibly eliminating traditional payments?
This same thing “people grab the most broken mechanic, exploit it, then complain when it gets fixed” happens in several other games I play.
Your reply is on point, “If you train for FOMO don’t be surprised when it gets fixed”. The usual strategy for some people is to train for essentially the second-best strategies and get good at them. They may also get fixed eventually but their lifespan is a lot longer.
(On point to the poster, that is. Sadly we’re off-topic for the thread. Basically, people, if you want the thread on topic, don’t reply to trolls waving their personal issues in the air.)
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I would not want to be in CCPs position of having to satisfy the oldbies who’ve gotten used to a certain style of gameplay whilst at the same time coping with noobs who find the game incomprehensible and the oldbies even more so.
Every games company is in a ‘how can we attract more people to the game ?’ situation. When they ‘dumbed down’ Morrowind to produce Oblivion, one had the usual ’ I ain’t never playing this game again’ from those steeped in the lore of the game. But looking back, Morrowind was way too unwieldly in its mechanics and Oblivion was by far the better game.
Eve is about as steep a learning curve as it gets. Of course if I say ‘too much so’, then all the oldbies are going to throw a fit. But you can’t have it both ways. If you want more players…and CCP almost certainly do and so do most existing players…then having a game whose first month seems like a lesson in quantum mechanics is not the way to go. It ought to be possible to simplify quite a lot of things without changing the overall mechanics. A much better ‘help’ system could be possible. I mean, if Microsoft could add a ‘what are you looking for ?’ widget to Word 25 years ago…why is that not possible in Eve today ? The single biggest problem for noobs is that everything is so un-obvious.
No. 18+ Years.
Do I trust a company that has money as their top priority? Really? I trust them to care about one thing and one thing only. No, if you want the short answer not at all. How do I feel about the customer service? Well I had an account stolen once and they didn’t care a few years ago. But recently a few GMS have actually helped me out which was appreciated. I don’t really see a few GMS as representing the company that owns the game. The GMS are good the company is trash
I am very sorry, but I cannot continue to hear this line without addressing it in good conscience.
The idea that companies are like emotionless, psychopathic terminators, advancing dispassionately in pursuit of profits with no relenting, is false.
And I agree with your overall sentiment, but your opening thought is incorrect in my estimation. And I am sick of hearing it parroted again and again.
Companies must indeed make a profit, bottom line. But remember, it is the bottom line, not every line. Also, it is the long term bottom line, probably not short term and possibly not medium term.
The pathway a company takes to make money on its bottom line will involve a myriad of goals and priorities that do not focus on profit. All the good things. Like customer satisfaction, service, being loyal towards the customers and your commitments to them.
Then in terms of the temporal nature of profit, as I said, long term profit on the bottom line is what matters most. Companies, as stated, are not bound to make a profit short term or medium term. It is tending to only be in the long term that this goal exists, involving senior management handling. All lower tiers of staff and non-executives will be focused on short term and medium-term goals that will not be overtly profit maximising. Often - but not always - KPI targets for most members of a company will not mention profit, they will say the other goals and plans that need to be met to get at the long term profit outcome.
The bottom line theory, is just not a good way to analyse business or anything. As mortals, our bottom line is death. does that mean, we are but mortals that are advancing on our deaths by degrees and nothing more? Does life not also afford us to love? to Desire? to die and survive a million times before its over?
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Lol - Dang Dark, you sure are taking that AT ship thing hard.
I feel kinda sorry for the OP now…
Bro… he can’t hear you over the sound of his ARROGANCE…
I don’t post with my main out of ego, I simply enjoy interacting with peeps as I am. They can hate me or love me or inbetween.
Faceless altitude must get boring eventually.
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Hey! Not all of us old dudes are set in our ways! Some of us really do want what’s best for the game, even if we disagree on what that is sometimes.
But yes, the core of that statement, that CCP has failed to expand the upper end of gameplay for quite some time is true.