Hello,
This forum is becoming more and more exciting in the midst of the existential crisis of New Eden! A real case study for researchers!
Above all, do not take offense @Reuben_Orlenard . The lollipop @Aisha_Katalen is very accustomed on this forum of the demolition operations of all the arguments which never go in the direction of CCP, and this even if these arguments are alas! founded, which is indeed the case here. Also, be rather flattered that she can pass by you while stopping for a session of argumentum ad nauseam. Not everyone is so lucky; you if:
But for once, our favorite lollipop is seriously starting to run out of solid arguments, which means at the same time that CCP is also running out of solid arguments. Who said stubbornness was a great strategy these days? Under no circumstances the players!
The worst is that we will have beautiful, and this each in his own way, sound the alarm, they probably do not give a damn. It is pathetic ! And each passing day demonstrates to us a little more the notorious incompetence of this online game publishing company, an incompetence both in marketing and capacity planning.
As I’ve already explained, CCP’s enthusiasm for PvP runs counter to the expectations of players who aspire to a massively multiplayer game with perfectly balanced objectives: PvE, PvP, mining, research, crafting, trade, etc The reason is quite simple to understand for anyone interested in issues of risk factors on persistent virtual worlds: PvP contributes to the erosion of players’ virtual assets. And on this last point, it is clear that CCP, which is probably in search of recipes, has become a real master in the field; I’m not going to come back to this, since I’m already talking about it here:
What is terrible in this sinister story that we have to witness in spite of ourselves, and this against a background of inflation of +33% (the deathblow), is that CCP is falling of its own free will into a Trap without a future, ie an economic trap that certain scientists specialized in the subject had already sensed barely 10 years ago. Indeed, the taxation algorithm, PLEXs, PvP, ALPHA vs. OMEGA, Ponzi-style corporations, etc., helping, by accentuating to such a level of paroxysm the virtual inequalities between avatars within New Eden, and this only for IRL gain, CCP has definitely just crossed “the border between real and virtual”, in defiance of the original story of New Eden normally located more than 7,700 years after Jesus Christ, “requiring one of the many paradigms of the use of these universes, that of the official transformation of an activity from leisure to work for some players anchored in a logic of opportunistic business and easy profit.” (Dumazert, 2013)…
So here is. Here we are !
The question now being to know what will our Icelandic Vikings be able to do in order to save their drakkar in perdition, and narrowly avoid the mess?
For me, no offense to certain ignorant refractories (God knows that there are many of them these days out of denial), the only possible solution in 2022 allowing such a situation to be regulated in extremis, in order to establish equity between all players and CCPs are NFTs (Not Fungible Token), plus a few other marketing features of course (I gave some ideas on another thread). Because without this solution, EvE Online will soon be just a museum piece…
So Hilmar! Not For Tranquility? Are you sure ?
Ully Loom
ps: it’s funny, we just planned a game of EvE CONQUESTS with friends; the advantage of this board game is that these rules are totally immutable; here, CCP can no longer cheat for his sole and exclusive benefit…