Posit: Players think a game company might be financially shaky and being sold.
Consequence: Players stop spending money on the game.
Result: Pretty soon the game company is financially shaky - and sold.
Conclusion: EVE is DEAD.
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Did you forget about the skin?
It looks to me as though it is being discussed. Seeing if anything worthwhile bites. At the same time all we can do is wait and see in the coming weeks and months if there is going to be a sale or not. Either way there is not a lot any of us can do.
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Not renewing your OMEGA for cash is somethingā¦
eves dying in his eyes, why should he make you a skin?
Sh*t, sorry - Iāve been away from EVE the last week or soā¦ (and yes, forgot about the SKIN)
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oh boi, here he comes with another ācoridlal discussion about ccp financial situationā
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First off, some speculation about the validity here - I run a company worth $XXm and you donāt get random speculation about this - and specifics about the process - unless thereās some truth and the seller wants people to know. The non-denial from PA tells you everything you need to know. āNo decisions have been madeā is doublespeak for āa decision has been made, we just want to project the illusion to new potential bidders that weāre happy to keep itā
The repercussions for the game will be interesting. Any new buyer will not be as cavalier as PA and are unlikely to fund $50m worth of losses in any form. That means theyāll likely focus on cost-cutting as a priority. They will need some form of plan for the future of the game, but that could mean 2 things
1 - milking it for all itās worth, increased prices, micro-transactions etc
2 - addressing longstanding gameplay issues.
Some of this will depend on how CCP position themselves as the development studio when a buyer asks how to move forward with the game. Are they going to fight the corner of the bittervets, and say āif you just cater to the hardcore players, you can make more money even from a dwindling userbase, or even entice some of them backā?
Or will they sell the idea of EVE as having potential way beyond that, and try to revolutionise the gameplay to retain more of the passing interest and alpha accounts that ultimately drift away?
Unfortunately, there has been a significant amount of head in the sand on here. A few months ago I said that it was pretty obvious that EVE as it currently exists is in a death spiral, and that has been caused by listening to the people who stayed rather than the people who left. A finer balance was needed there, and yes, you do need to listen to your core customers, but EVE has been brutal to new players for too long, and this was always the likely outcome.
Hopefully whatever happens the game still exists in a few years time. Focusing on FPSās and garbage like that is just a disaster when the core game is there and could work with that kind of attention lavished on it.
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Also, CCP have been advertising EVE a lot since the PA takeover, burning through cash to grow the userbase which would have been a big part of their buyout. The opposite has happened because new users quickly grow disillusioned, especially as the game is markedly different to the adverts.
This failure to grow via Plan A has in turn meant a greater focus on ships skins and milking omega accounts as much as possible, with little in the way of meaningful releases until last year. Their tinkering around the edges has even broken some of the economy, which renders some industrial gameplay unrewarding and drives away players, who are actually crucial to the gameplay experience of other players. Despite that, having hundreds of thousands of active paying accounts means they bring in plenty of money even when the in game pop is lower.
Now CCP have released (or tried to) several spin offs, so Iām sure they had a hand in the new game strategy, but ultimately they seem very much like the second choice to getting EVE where it needs to be. Unfortunately the time passed for CCP to make good on that idea with PA because they largely have catered to people who can never be sated, and in desperation theyāve just thrown some sh*t at the wall to sell the idea of some kind of meaningful future usebase increase to replace Plan A.
Basically CCP have mismanaged it, but their choice to launch two random new games has the air of trying to please PA.
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SMH That is the dumbest thing that people post all the time.. OH no! The studio is doing something I do not like. Lets punish them by not subbing, Thus assuring that they will have to sell the game. Really?
I am paid up till next september '26 and if IF there is a new company that buys CCP. I will see how it goes. If the new company doesnāt interfere and lets CCP do what it needs to, Then all is good. On the other hand of this new company acts like EA or activision.
Well this would not be the first game I quietly stopped playing and uninstalled. But this is all presuming that there will be a sale. Nothing at this point says there is or is going to be.
So we are all going to wait and see. I am not going to end my sub or even stop buying plex. But you do you.
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It would all be less emotional if i hadnāt been investing, playing and accumulating stuff for the last 25 years. Other games are mostly not comparable to this.
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