First, these new forums need some serious formatting help… eyesore-city.
Second, come on @CCP_Falcon . This isn’t the kind of behavior that created the player base CCP has enjoyed for so long, that created YOUR commitment and love of the game. This is the stuff that is finally, after almost 15 years, breaking that player bases loyalty and commitment. In the past when things were buggered up as badly as this was, CCP didn’t do this whole ‘we’re going to figure out how many pennies to give everyone back’ crap… if queues were being affected for 8 hours due to this script, everyone got 8 hours of free sp, because the space pixels were far less important than the loyalty and support of the player base. So what if it meant people will buy one less injector. It might mean one less miniplex purchase, but it will also mean an entire player base happy with how their game handled a mistake, and would also tell their friends as much, about how well CCP did by them when they messed something up.
These last couple years in particular have been dismal to watch. You guys used to give out a bonus remap or two throughout the year, and the playerbase ‘mob’ loved you for it(skipping over the whole mess of the future of the attribute system). It was no particular sweat off CCP’s back, and massively appreciated by the player base, as is anything of that nature. Now, instead of doing those awesome little extras, CCP is implementing ways to charge us for pretty much everything, and what CCP has given out as christmas presents is just garbage that becomes an ever greater mockery. This isn’t the game you grew up on, nor me, nor most the older player base. This isn’t the solution that creates player base loyalty. CCP could really do with getting back to some of that relationship development. How many people are still going to get screwed because they restarted their queues and your solution doesn’t take care of that… and they’re just too tired of dealing with this BS to even care. Missed opportunity… instead of letting that person walk away with hands in the air… reach out and pull them back. ‘Hey, we broke the queue for 8 hours, here’s 8 hours of SP. We know some people are going to get a bit extra off this because they were able to restart their queues, but we’d rather make sure we took care of everyone who wasn’t as well, and happy birthday to those who are getting a bit more.’ inserts 2 isk, or should it be one miniplex these days?
I haven’t checked all my accounts, but so far I haven’t SEEN any notifications of SP reimbursed or any other way to tell, and I can’t be bothered with dealing with the ticket system because it is the worst I’ve ever seen it.
-1 to relationship with CCP counter.
-One of those middle aged players
https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/a-letter-to-the-followers-of-eve/ This really does need to be re-read by a great many on both sides of the CCP/customer line.