The point is, this is a horrible change that has been turbofanned into the game like nothing before since when N3 pwned gewnies with fighter-bombers and they got nerfed two days later.
It buffed the last kind of people who needed buffs - ganktards, who give NOTHING to the game, avoiding pvp like no tomorrow, only jumping on targets that can’t fight back, thus generating 0 content, and turning eve into a super-concentration FPS game where you can only play with perfect attention and reaction to have a slim chance of avoiding a catastrophic loss and gaining nothing. Why would anyone like that?
what new equilibrium? By the time CCP realizes the error of their ways, this game will be truly a dead zone. As a business, you never want to see 3k+ customers disappear overnight and if you have a good business sense, you need to ask yourself why the issue
CCP - “You keep coming in here to eat the free cookies. Please leave”
Botter - “What? I bought a bottle of water last week”
CCP - “The cookies are meant for 1 per person, so everyone can have some. I’m going to have to ask you limit yourself to 1 cookie per day”
Botter - “THIS IS BS! HOW DARE YOU CHANGE THE RULES OF HOW I EAT? I’M GOING TO PICKET YOUR STORE, I’M A PAYING CUSTOMER”
It’s kind of difficult to do justice to what a uniquely insipid tack, “Anyone who plays video games differently than I do isn’t even a person,” really is.
And, frankly, dangerous, given that it’s the rationale that’s been used to justify any number of atrocities throughout history.
Well, first, we all know the EVE community tends toward overly dramatic histrionics. The first 4000 posts in this thread (and basically everything from Drifter) demonstrate that, as does a casual reading of /r/eve. So the 3k+ drop needs to be taken with a grain of salt, especially as we see the numbers rebounding again not even a full week in. People like to make the big grand gesture, especially on a summer weekend when they can just go do something else outside… but then they settle back into their normal, habitual behaviors.
As for ‘what new equilibrium?’… that’s exactly what the test is looking to determine, isn’t it? You can’t go drawing conclusions off inadequate data, and right now, within the first week, any conclusions drawn have to include the fact that the numbers bounced back within a week. But even that is completely flawed, because we don’t have a week yet. We can’t even compare Friday to Friday yet, to establish a trend line.
EVE is not going to die over this change. People can panic all they want, and be as dramatic and up in arms as they want, but the simple truth is: according to CCP’s #s, 70% of the playerbase never leaves highsec. So the vast majority of EVE’s profitability isn’t even touched by this.
CCP can keep this going as long as they feel they need to. And all the tantrums in the world won’t mean a damned thing if Hilmar’s got his big boy pants on.
bring some more 
