It’s really interesting to watch CCP’s progress.
It’s even more interesting to see how people fall in line. Everyone’s so fixated on the goal that no one cares anymore about the journey, so people believe it’s a-okay to remove more and more of the “journey” part.
By the looks of it and based on the flawed logic of too many players, CCP will eventually hand out ISK to people due to the fact that them having to work for it is a waste of time. Hell, why do people have to jump one system over to run the mission the agent gave them? It’s a waste of time. Why do people need to do so many clicks for PI and why do they have to spend time gathering their stuff? It’s a waste of time.
No one plays for playing’s sake anymore, everyone’s just in it for the result. It’s like setting up a chess board at the decisive point of a match, instead of the beginning of a match. The best part is that the same people who use this flawed logic will be the same who will declare that the above isn’t going to happen, yet it is exactly what has been happening in the last years.
It’s both fascinating and scary to watch this social degeneration.