I think Arrendis was trying to say that this is not “this newer version of CCP”.
It’s a bitter one to board, when you see that there is an underlying approach to the way CCP handles the game and how many see them so “distant”, perhaps.
Being an old code and all that is no excuse. I think any dev company should always bring new blood, push them to the top and progress. But sometimes I just think it’s too much of a niche and “alone” in the gaming industry.
I remember a free to play “cat people” MMO long ago. I thought it was brilliant and such nice concept around a topic that to me was guarantee of constant new players influx, given that it maintained publicity.
But those on the big seats never moved, never did good business of it and the game never progressed and tho it’s still out there, no one plays it anymore.
Somehow, it’s the same with EVE. I came to this game because back then, it was to me the closest gameplay environment to the ads in terms of graphics immersive experience. But it’s a spaceship “sim” and that’s a no brainer to Xucca. Nerds are on the rise and I don’t know of a single one that wouldn’t love to check out a space sim. I know very few that will accept the challenge and less who would willingly pay the fee, given that we exclude those who cannot afford it.
I don’t know where the policy of giving out free stuff comes from. In my line of RL work, I find that people seem to actually behave better and more predictably when they are charged for something that we could give for free. We don’t do it and charge little but experience showed us that “free” carries no sense of belonging.
EVE has been on the giveaway rollercoaster too long. A wrong strategy for me, and a mess for the game.
I think that this game should focus on mass from the pricing POW. It’s too expensive for the mass, it’s demanding on the machines and darn hard to play from the start.
Maybe the “new blood” in CCP should come to the marketing and financial section and remove the burden from devs, so they can focus on the game and leave the revenue to others through the RL modern strategies. EVE is what it is and derailing towards a mass that only feels on board with instant gratification is too far of a stray from this concept. It’s just another kind of game.
I rather have a bar with 100 peeps paying 3 dollar beer, happily charring the liver than 50 with a half empty glass and bourbon in the glove compartment. Maybe EVE should be a 6-8 USD/mo sub and cut freebies by 70%, see what goes.
Because this chaos… nah.
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