I partially believe that CCP will end up being okay after the dust settles just because I have never known of any gaming community to have a truly successful protest. The sad part is that the precedence this sets is antithesis to good customer service.
Thousands of EVE online players riot over microtransactions
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Okay, two things that are relevant to this particular instance of outrage that you may not be familiar with regarding EVE: 1) The real rage is not over the Incarna vanity items, which are priced silly, but ultimately pointless. It is over a leaked memo which suggested that RMT was planned for game affecting items like ships, weapons, and faction standing. 2) If you quit EVE for even a little while, you are ceding con…
People in empire corps could take a month off without risking anything. When I was playing all the action was in 0.0, but most of the players were in high security space.
Yeah, but the impact of a RMT system on non-vanity items has the greatest effect on the players who actually engage in pvp a lot, the null sec players.
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#33Its pretty much cannon now, that F2P invariably leads to P2W (Pay to Win). There has to be an evil MMORPG manual out there that outlines the following steps.
1. Introduce microtransactions, promising they will only be for vanity items. 2. On day one of microtransactions, include more OP gear in the cash shop than vanity items. 3. Start counting profits while a few smart ones leave, but the suckers line up to pay more for less.
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#34All these stupid protesters are just having a hissy fit that will lead to nothing more than them losing a few hours of profitable game time. Face it losers, the company has you by the balls. You cannot boycott anything without ingame financial ruin. Your only choice is to leave or stay. As long as you stay, the owners own you. This is simply how Free to Play and Cash Shops work. The real money is in OP game changing gear. Every game that has implemented it, the players end up paying many times more than an annual WOW subscription in order to have the best gear and rush to end game.
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#35i don't know much about this, but it seems that they've introduced vanity items at "real world" prices. so you can buy, say, "designer" clothing for several hundred dollars. at the same time, the hardware you use in the game is staying at a much lower level. now obviously they can't charge realistic prices for spaceships, but the resulting contrast seems to be surprising a lot of people. from a non-involved viewpoint…
There are no prices without scarcity.
Re: Thousands of EVE online players riot over microtransactions
#36i don't know much about this, but it seems that they've introduced vanity items at "real world" prices. so you can buy, say, "designer" clothing for several hundred dollars. at the same time, the hardware you use in the game is staying at a much lower level. now obviously they can't charge realistic prices for spaceships, but the resulting contrast seems to be surprising a lot of people. from a non-involved viewpoint…
There are no prices without scarcity.
In this case, it's what the market will bear. If people buy $500 designer clothes in EVE, the management will continue to sell them.
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#37You know what the best way to protest a game is? Stop playing for a while and send an email. I know this sounds absurdly little, but look at it this way: If you're out doing other things, you might find something you like and -never come back-. This scares the bejeezus out of game developers who exist solely on the fact that people are addicted. If their playerbase actually went and did other things, they couldn't ke…
> You know what the best way to protest a game is? Stop playing for a while and send an email.
By not playing, you're not making anyone else currently playing the game aware of the protest. Although you're making CCP aware of your protest, you're becoming essentially invisible to the other users.
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#38Really, people are getting this raged about shit in an online game? Take to the streets, my friends. Fight for the real world, not an imaginary one.
You shouldn't shit on what other people do for fun or in their free time. Some people use online games like this to escape their real life, whether its to escape disease, sickness or other less serious things.
I don't have a problem with people using games to escape their real, shitty life. But then picking a game that makes you so angry you want to riot sounds like a strange choice. I mean, if you are going to riot, there's plenty of things to protest about in your real, shitty life that impact you more. (Granted, it also takes a lot more effort to deal with.)
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#39i believe also that a lot of players weren't happy with the upcoming Dust514 being Playstation only.
Some would like it on other consoles (XBOX) and the rest feels betrayed for playing eve for so long and not being able to play on the PC.
Thats it! I'm quitting this game and giving all my ISK away for this 1 Tritanium!!!