I love Eve. Been playing for almost 15 years. For the past few years we have received a pretty good year end movie. What happened this this year? Other years we got a nice personalized year in review. Just not this year. This years movie was just an Eve advert spot. It did nothing for me at all. I Was bored to sleep in seconds. Surely, CCP could have done better as they have done in he past, right?
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Yes, I agree 100%âŚ
Also could have posted this in one of the other âYear In Eveâ threadsâŚ
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How many store packs did you buy in 2022?
Iâm not sure what you mean.
Did you go to the EVE store and purchase some packs? Like this one for example:
https://secure.eveonline.com/store/packs/platinum-starter-pack-2023
Or maybe some skill extractors, or skin bundles?
I suppose you are correct. But I hardly ever post in the forums and this is important. lol.
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Not sure why that would be a factor in the âEnd of Yearâ movie. I donât see a relationship.
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Well, if people bought some more store packs, maybe we wouldâve gotten a better âyear end movie.â Otherwise, not in budget, sorry. There was only enough money to make some more meaningless industry tweaks, patch out high-sec PvP, and have a nice big fanfest celebrating the âbiggest upcoming changesâ the game has ever seen.
We can try again is 2023. Keep that credit card within armâs reach.
I pay for the game each month. Not sure whatâs wrong with that. Not sure why I would pay extra for stuff I donât need. CCP gives me tons of ship skins for free each week on their stupid daily give away thingie.
Because there is no relationship. That character is just trolling you.
Anyway, youâre correct. The year end video released this year was nothing more than an advert, and a cheap one at thatâŚ
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âŚand here I thought I was trolling himâŚ
Nothingâs wrong, itâs just not enough. Sorry, the stockholders need to eat. That comes first.
Absolutely not trolling you either. The message is genuine, just wrapped up in colorful wording. The point is, if people want stuff we had before, theyâre gonna have to open up their wallets, because right now, thereâs only enough money (after paying the people who need to be paid) to create new ads for players to buy more stuff so that they get more money. If you buy more stuff, then there might be some money left over for other things. Maybe. The people who are getting paid might want to get some extra money first.
âŚerr okayâŚ
I pray for the game each Sunday.
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Iâm not sure if the idea is that I have the skin so now I should buy the shipâŚas I seldom get free skins for ships I actually have.
CCP should sell the year end movies in the New Eden Store instead of just spamming it to people.
That way, the people who like the movies could buy one for each of their alts, or potentially even send the service as gifts to their friends.
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and u can sell video for friends
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TBH I found the All-EVE Year End Video to be interesting, and it would have been something handy to have for the last decade to hold CCPâs (chest)nuts to the open fireâŚ
That said, on a âkeep your customers happyâ perspective, it falls far short of personalized videos. The email print-out of a single chars stats is also useful, but of course CCP flubbed the implementation. âGood Ideas Executed Badly, Bad Ideas Implemented Quicklyâ appears to be CCPâs motto for the past decade.
I assume CCP didnât create a smoothly automated process for feeding account database stats into the video creator, and instead opted for some kludgy mess that requires a lot of hands-on intervention to produce. And theyâre likely short on staff or $$ due to blowing their wad on yet another useless side-project this year.
For future year-ends, players should be able to log onto the account website and designate a specific character as main. This absolutely should be done anyway and would likely clear up several other problems at the same time.
In an ideal world, theyâd get the year-end video for either their main char or main charâs account, and the emailed stats-list page for each character linked to the subbed account. And CCP would automate that so it could become a standard feature.
Personally I can live without char stats at all, but itâs just bad business practice to set customer expectations and then fail to deliver. Not that thatâs anything new for CCPâŚ
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Dolphins are stupid tuna and any movie staring Flipper should be banned from viewing at the end of the Year.
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What about Ecco though? 
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