I’m lost for words for the first time ever about the CCP release.
I’ve been recommending this game to others as one and only game that has true player driven economy, player interaction and fascinating SF storylines.
Once they implement this event into the game, I will conclude that CCP gave up to keep EVE-Online an unique sci-fi MMO. Then I will never recommend this game to anyone else, for sure.
This is really the most shocking release ever than any other in game updates. The time to leave this game may be pretty much close. I have a lot of other games to play if EVE isn’t unique anymore.
I will never again underestimate CCP’s capacity for giving the players what none of us wanted or asked for. I couldn’t have come up with a dumber idea for an event if you’d given me a month. There’s just so much wrong with this crap. Let us count the ways:
Introducing aliens in Eve in a game where the only alien invaders have typically been other (trans)humans.
Not just aliens, but aliens from a nearly 6-decade long franchise that is nearly unknown outside its hardcore fanbase and has been in decline for years (and don’t think that we’ve missed the parallel to Eve).
Instead of doing this, CCP could have worked on any number of relatively small quality of life improvements to Eve that would have made players happy.
This is the sort of crap you get from a game like Fortnite.
There’s a near-metaphysical certainty that CCP will try to sell NFTs out of this; or at least more overpriced cosmetic items (Doctor Who-themed dress up dolly clothes are a lock, given the art from the ad.)
<unintelligible, angry swearwords>
Try as I might, I can’t see any way that the dev time spent on this will be worthwhile if the income stream from it is Eve’s current players. Ergo, the income stream for this must be coming from elsewhere.
If this is the wave of the future, just tell me now so I can go ahead and find a new go-to game.
This is without a doubt the lowest point I’ve ever seen EVE at since launch.
I suspect pearl abyss has a lot to do with this absolute embarassment.
Not that it really matters to me, I stopped playing for good once they started directly selling SP packs. I was just so shocked by the total insanity of the advert I got in my inbox I checked reddit and the forums. This is somehow worse than them offering me a $300 “catch-up” SP pack on an alt a few months ago.
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Yeah, this gimmicky BS isn’t exactly instilling confidence in me.
TV show crossovers are usually a product of failing ratings and a burnt out creative team.
This actually does seem like a waste of dev resources -and I’m usually arguing against people who say this.
I doubt this is going to result in a significant increase in long term players. I mean, Eve already seems to attract a lot of players who have misconceptions about what Eve is, and who tend to bail once they discover it’s nature. And I’d wager that this is just going to result in more of that.
I dislike crossovers and pop culture references because it is immersion breaking and doesn’t bring anything to the table. I guess I can understand a creator paying homage to things that have inspired them, but, imho, good homages don’t break immersion/detract from the art, and this isn’t an homage.
Eve Online - where undocking is consenting to PvP, the police don’t protect you, they just avenge you. Scamming is rife, corporate espionage is the norm and everything, even the ships we fly in are ammo.
The Four Nations are a freedom loving Federation, a hyper zealous religious Empire that is pro-slavery, the emancipated Republic formed of freed slaves, and a deeply capitalist corporate State formed from mega-corporations so profit hungry that citizenship comes only from working for, and being owned by, a megacorporation.
Where does Dr Who fit in?
Is this Dr Who canon now?
Did Dr Who let the Minmatar be enslaved for centuries without intervening?
Is Dr Who pro-hypercapitalism where you don’t have human rights outside the corporation you work for?
Are they pro-Gallente, a “freedom loving” Federation so ripe with corruption that their Epic Arc literally goes into how members of state security allow and profit from child sex trafficking?
Is this all Dr Who lore now? The Eve universe lore is literally soaked in blood. How did they think Dr Who fitted in?
