But now seriously.
This is what I am saying all the time. But invested players in this game don’t want to hear this.
This gameplay will not lure any new players. In fact it will deters them.
We, old players who had spent thousands of hours in this game and thousands of €/$ in this game are willing to accept it, but I don’t see any new player get hooked into EVE with such stupid design where you spend 3 hours getting ■■■■ and then there is one jackpot site where you get 100-300mil.
DEDs are not different in this regard, tried about 6 recently and neither drop anything but the garanteed npc loot. So I don’t bother anymore.
If CCP wants to keep new players they should start here. I am not saying give 50mil into each highsec data/relic site, but getting less than 3 mil per site feels really horrible given how rare they are and that you can spend 20 minutes just finding one. Lowsec is not much better - you will waste time on FW/AEGIS/ESS sites and the everage loot is 5mil too. And the risk is much higher. And doing DED in lowsec is just nonsense. Even if you somehow snuck in through perma gatecamps in hs->ls, it won’t take while until Curse or Arazu shows next to you and you are blobbed/dropped. At best you can keep your ship but they will prevent you from finishing the site.