But for all of you that are quitting, to me it doesnt make sense, because for us, the game doesnt revolve around these stupid items, it revolves around the stories we develop in our RP and actions that happen in game.
I would love to agree with you, Invelious, and indeed, that is the way the game should absolutely be.
The thing is, Eve is also a strategy game.
I will not play a strategy game that allows my opponent to buy an advantage. PLEX is a necessary evil; I recognize that much. The worst abuses of PLEX are balanced by the fact that those who need it are frequently either enthused new players bootstrapping themselves into a more involved position (my housemate did that) or are terrible at the game.
CCP, at this point, does not recognize PLEX as an evil, necessary or otherwise. It looks on it, and on AURUM, as a cash cow.
That's acceptable, so long as the items have no in-game effect beyond the cosmetic, but this memo, as of May 2011, expresses an interest in selling ships and ammo via direct payment of $$ for ISK.
And those, my friends, are freaking substantive.
What's more, CCP has firmly declared its intention to make most of its money from DUST on microtransactions for items such as weapons, and to pressure its players into purchasing them through substantial differences in weapon quality. I'd like to think that was a bad dream, but they've hinted at it before-- and DUST is going to be grafted onto Eve at the hip like an artificial Siamese twin.
I have no problem with having some of our battles fought for us by "console people" or "FPS players." I'm a console player myself, and a sometime FPS fan. However, I have a huge goddamn problem with the dice being loaded by who can afford to pay CCP the most.
If this is the way of the future, I want none of it.
And then there's the fact that CCP directly lied to us on this issue. I always kinda thought its credibility problems dating from the T20 incident would at least serve to keep CCP honest. Naive of me, I guess.
If CCP says, now, that they'll keep Eve as free of corruption by substantive MT as they can make it and find another way to sell DUST (thus, again, shielding Eve from corruption), I will believe them for precisely one reason: if CCP betrays our trust again, the backlash would likely destroy the game, and thus CCP's source of capital for its other projects.
Otherwise ... it's been a lot of fun, folks. Hats off to CCP for creating this game, hats off to the rest of you for populating it.
However, boo hiss to CCP for poisoning the goddamn well.
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