I get that, but what I am saying is:
The risk is to relegate EVE to “maintenance mode” in order to keep veterans while CCP devs would keep pushing on console-style First Person Shooter to attract new players and pay the bills (as they are doing in London).
Huh. That is a rather tall claim 
Its ok Grampy. We know its you
Truth be told, its pretty funny cause out of most peeps posting here, I’m the only one I see regularly in EVE uni and rookie chat, helping the nubs
I haven’t found any new player in the forums who has said something worthwhile enough to give isk to in almost a yr now. I stay out of rookie chat and got no bites on offering help in local in starter sys.
Oh yea man, no one talks in local cept me
I can give advice in chat to someone 43 jumps away, but I can’t fleet him up and hold his hand like if he was in the same sys. Lack of local chat is another big problem for eve with new players geared more for chat channels than local. Meh…
I think there’s just too many options like discord and stuff.
I’m old school. I like in game chat
Thought you were speaking of voice.
Oh no, very old school. I prefer chat vs voice
I can type and read fast, partly due to MMOs
I’ll take voice over chat all the time. I used to pvp in a fleet. Need comm’s.
Edit; My headset has mold on it from being tossed into a dark corner. 
I cannot stand anything related to voice comms. As soon as I actually hear people’s voices, the fantasy is broken.
And that’s what is responsible for some of the aggressive forum reactions people get from older players. There are already other space sims out there where you can mine, build stations, fly PVE missions, all that stuff. Those games ALREADY exist. There are no other full loot pvp long term space games on the planet. This is it, the only one. So it is incredibly frustrating when people show up and say, “ I don’t want Eve to be Eve any more, I want it to be like the other games I could already be playing but aren’t for some unknown reason”. Then when eve changes to what you guys want, it’s gone, and there are no replacements. Meanwhile, the miners just get bored and wander away and play Elite Dangerous for awhile and then that’s it. You don’t go to Tetris and tell the developers it needs fewer blocks and more Paladins. You go for Tetris. Enjoy the beauty and ferocity and danger of eve, or play something you like more.
We had a lot of ex military and knew each other for yrs before joining the game. No action was like the forums, just a pig pile on each other, just bs’ing.
Combat was a whole different thing. Target spotted was an instant quiet channel. The info feed was real time, no clutter. With 30 sec of info, we were gearing up. Change fits/whatever. FC gave the orders, few spoke only to inform they were too far out, etc.
I hate ppl in general also, but we had a good corp. Shame you could not find one as well.
I was once a star warrior
Then I took an arrow to the wallet
And my ship stats
And my free time
And my POS
And ad infinitum
Stopping pvp and competition for control is an exact reason the game is trash. Multiboxers and pew pew structures with structure timers instead of people fighting people in their own ships are also huge.
I have found a few good corps. They tend not to last more than a few weeks.
You all bittervets have to quit for a year or two , then come back to murder all of them after the noob numbers are up . You would be surprised of the results.
There are a lot of Greek letters between α and ω. How about μ accounts, Only able to fly sub capitals for $15/month. I have no desire to fly those big, expensive targets.
85% of the playerbase would choose that option then ccp will raise u accounts to 19.99 in a year and omega capital accounts to 25 xD lol not worth it.
It would be “interesting” if CCP kept omega clones, but then introduced two new discount clone classes: one that skill trained like Omega, but was locked out of using the (non-alpha) skills and one that didn’t skill train at all but had full use of their existing skills.
I managed to adapt until the smallest of changes. The resistance nerf. By the time they restored it, it was too late for me.
As I said before, we came into the game as a corp of apx 25 after having our own BF 42 server. We made it from 08 till the wd nerf…