First you lecture me on reading closely, and then you accuse me of claiming that I said the war dec changes were primarily responsible for the rise in retention. I didn’t say they were. I said they were part of the mass of changes made to impact retention. And they were. The numbers we were shown, as was noted in the minutes, demonstrated that when you create a system where the best way to counter it is to log out and not play, people will do that and then they don’t come back.
So they fixed that.
And as for the claim that better retention will show up in the PCU, not necessarily. There are people coming and going from the game all over the place. There’s zero way to filter out every other variable to say that this one thing resulted in X. It’s all part of their on-going efforts to increase retention rates, which have been working.
Regardless, there’s just no real way to justify the claim that nerfs to high sec PvP resulted in tens of thousands of players quitting the game - that many people were never involved in high sec PvP (here’s where bluelysian screams aloud and links RvB for the 90th time). There’s a far more obvious reason why those numbers went down and you already said what it was.
