# When hope dies: my fears on the development direction of the game

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**Created:** [May 13, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/when-hope-dies-my-fears-on-the-development-direction-of-the-game/311067 "2021-05-13T00:12:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lara\_Agnon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lara_agnon/32/377122_2.png) [@Lara\_Agnon](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lara_Agnon)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2021, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/when-hope-dies-my-fears-on-the-development-direction-of-the-game/311067/381 "2021-05-23T10:00:40Z")

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> [@Nascent3ch0](#):
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> I’m unsure just how much of a role it plays in these discussions.

Yes, we all know that ccp needs to make money, that’s perfectly ok.

Hope is not based on facts only, a lot of it is just a gut feeling. And it can be easily manipulated. The strange thing is why does ccp fail to give people that hope…

Check the change in tonality of communications new players get via email from 2010 vs. today as I posted here: [What do you miss about Eve that is now gone? - #856 by Lara\_Agnon](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-do-you-miss-about-eve-that-is-now-gone/157755/856)

When I got that email in 2021 I was on the verge of crying

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