Hello everyone, and
@CCP which shines by its deafening silence within all these important debates! They are the ones I would personally like to read on this forum, instead of all this horde of harmful trolls and useless lollipops at their command!
Are you so on the street following all your accumulated trade policy errors, including that of inflation of +33% immediately followed by false discounts, thus signing in 2022, the climax of a decade of trade mismanagement? nameless in spite of us, that you now prefer to keep quiet, rather than really come and discuss with us everything that is wrong? So come and chat with us instead of constantly relying on your facade CSM while brandishing your EULA, a CSM which, moreover, is of absolutely no use to you!
Because New Eden really needs a real revolution today, and fast!
I allow myself to react, in particular to what I have just read this morning under other subjects coming out of the pen of lollipops proving to be decidedly totally useless for you in more ways than one!
There are not between 17 and 23,000 players connected each day to EvE Online simultaneously. What is simultaneously connected are between 17 and 23,000 accounts! In other words, a very certainly lower number of players due to the multi-account policy pursued by CCP throughout the last few years, and this in an attempt, no doubt, to save the day, as we say!
These figures for 2022 are therefore in no way comparable to those for 2009-2013, situated well before the great wave of perfectly understandable and legitimate defections by a large part of the veterans!
This is also what happens when you despise your customers to such an extent for the sole benefit of greed, and this while turning your back on what nevertheless made the glory of CCP between 2003-2009, namely: the status of New Eden’s persistent universes, for the most remarkable MMO-RPG-RTS of all time!
Go understand! Me there, as a veteran survivor of the wave of defections, whose character Ully Loom was born in 2003, I no longer seek to understand! Where have all my stats gone in all your pretty cardboard analyzes content with a sample of data located between 2012 and today?
Consistency in data analysis? Does this speak to you? Initially: NO!
It’s flat out guys because of your limitless stubbornness!
I observe powerless in spite of myself, and this despite the many advices that I have been able to deliver voluntarily on this forum, the slow agony of the online game which nevertheless took part in the construction of the spirit that I have become 20 years after !
How did we get here ?
How can we allow ourselves to be so misunderstood with regard to an entire community that remained loyal to CCP throughout the first decade?
Open your eyes, guys, and see what’s left at the end! All this is your work! By no means ours!
Moreover, there is absolutely nothing surprising that it is the quality of the community itself that suffers the most in view of so many errors accumulated in just over 10 years! Indeed, by despising the entire community of passionate MMO-RPG-RTS veterans to such an extent, you have quite simply made New Eden fall prey to the most erratic behaviors possible!
Your ignorance of player psychology is your main flaw, which constantly feeds the frustration of the most patient players, rather than relieving it! You are incapable of any form of psychological anticipation, which, on a systemic level, only maintains the flow of defections from the last veterans!
So is it lost? Is EvE Online doomed to die?
Under certain conditions, my answer as a systemician is clearly: NO!
And those conditions are as follows:
1- You must first accept the fact that there are two kinds of players: the patient, and the impatient; the first are real MMO-RPG-RTS players ready to devote a lot of their personal time to take part in the construction of a whole persistent universe and leave their mark on it, while the second are just simple arena players in favor of so-called fast PvP games; you have there two categories of players who cannot in any case cohabit on one and the same server; it is a real problem of social anthropology!
2- You must then offer two separate servers; the first would be devoted exclusively to building the persistent universe of New Eden, without cheating (ie without PLEX, without injectors, etc.) and also, without any harmful intervention on your part, and the second would be reserved for players ready to pay hundreds of dollars in the short term to have everything right away!
So. Try To Fly Safe Again. Or Not.
Ully Loom
