Hello @Shipwreck_Jones ,
First of all thank you for responding.
Know that I am in no way doing this in order to sabotage the morale of the community. In 19 years, I have hardly ever intervened on the forum. Even in 2011, when I had very good reasons to take part in the collective anger of the players, I remained distant and discreet. In 19 years, I have only observed the reactions of players and their suggestions, including those you quote (by the way, none of them are related to any request for the introduction of PLEX, clone ALPHA and OMEGA, of extractor and injector, of EPP, etc. - the 2003-2009 players of which I am a part did not even consider it), giving me my own opinion on the evolution of the game, year after year, while always keeping me away from the CSM in which I do not believe, and this on the sole reading of the rules of procedure imposed on them by CCP; no French democrat normally constituted can accept/tolerate such internal rules doomed to failure; moreover CCP should already take this into account before imposing anything on us. And if exchanges were to take place between me and other French-speaking players, mainly friends, it was always during a drink or two on the terrace of a café, but never here on this forum.
Also, if I intervene only today, it is necessarily for a good reason. OK ! Already, that is said! Next,
EvE Online is for all of us a nugget that would gain a lot if and only if CCP really agreed to listen to the voices that can concretely make a difference. I wouldn’t post on this forum if I wasn’t sure what I had to say to them wasn’t important. In the same way, I would not intervene on this forum if I did not wish to address my message to CCP while sharing it with the whole of the community which remains free to discuss it, or not.
You write to me that you are not a psychologist, which is in no way a problem in order to be able to debate freely between us. However, you don’t know who I am, except for this 19-year-old avatar: Ully Loom, knowing that it is not the statistics of this character that can give credit to my point IRL. Only CCP can know who I really am and what value they can really place on my message if they choose.
So you accuse me of taking part in sabotaging the morale of the community. You are wrong. Already, it was not me who provoked the collective anger of 2011, nor the decline that followed, and even less the anger of April-May-June 2022, nor the current decline, in particular because of this delirious inflation of +33%.
+33%? Forgive me, but does this number mean absolutely nothing to you? Ah! Sorry ! You are not an economist either. For more than a decade now, CCP has been accumulating serious rookie mistakes on the marketing, commercial and strategic levels. It is also CCP which, against all expectations, dangerously interferes in 2022, with the persistent universe of New Eden which is 7,700 years after Christ, and which in fact is no longer one today.
Also, there always comes a time when you have to know how to call a spade, a spade! And that’s what I’m doing today. OK ! Already, that too, is said! Finally,
Since CCP’s servers were able to support a load of over 60,000 simultaneous connections with computer technologies of the years 2000-2010, why wouldn’t they be able to support two separate loads, say 2x30,000, spread over two different servers with technologies from 2010-2020. By opening a NOSTALGIA type server (specimen name) allowing the deployment of EvE Online without PLEX nor ALPHA and OMEGA clone, without extractor nor injector, etc., while reinforcing/securing the persistent side of New Eden, it is to say by granting from the start, a limited amount of resources for each belt (a simple equation to determine this amount is quite easy to find), that the downtime would never reset, I am sure that CCP would know like Blizzard, a rebound of the number subscriptions with two types of player profiles for two types of offer:
1- players who are content with a luxury arena where they just have to pay to progress: you want to buy IRL 20,000 PLEXs? OK ! In this case, your character will be a character exclusive to the TRANQUILITY server!
2- players who want to take part in the evolution of a persistent universe on which the publisher never interferes, except on the technical and graphic aspects: you want to play a real MMO-RPG-RTS? OK ! In this case, your character will be an exclusive character of the NOSTALGIA server!
On NOSTALGIA, could New Eden know a new era of extinction of Humanity? Wouldn’t you try this anthropological experiment?
Ully Loom