Eve Online

[Spooky]

While I like a lot of the EVE world and game play I've decided that I just don't have time to invest in an MMO and will be letting my subscription run out. It also looks like there are a LOT of others leaving the game as well, but for different reasons. An internal email/memo was leaked to the public and a lot of the player base is in a rage right now.

http://www.evenews24.com/2011/06/22/greed-is-good-purportedly-leaked-internal-bulletin-shows-ccps-refreshing-new-direction/

CCP's (EVE's parent company) response: http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1536065

I tried to count all the threads started by people saying goodbye, but gave up after I reached 100. Not a good week for CCP.

[Spooky]

 

Massive in-game protest in the major trade hub in the game. People shootin' everything! Live!

http://www.justin.tv/deamosseraph#/w/1380742320


ETA. Basically the amount of people in that system will cause a ton of lag and eventually crash the game. I think that's the end game for the protesters

[Eric]

I was curious why they were unhappy--is this about a document leak stating they're going to be adding microtransactions to Eve? And not just fluffy, stuff, but actual usable items (aka, pay-to-play)?  Man, I'd be unhappy with that myself, were I already shelling out $$ to play every month.

[Spooky]

I was curious why they were unhappy--is this about a document leak stating they're going to be adding microtransactions to Eve? And not just fluffy, stuff, but actual usable items (aka, pay-to-play)?  Man, I'd be unhappy with that myself, were I already shelling out $$ to play every month.

That's part of it, but right now the only MT is for accessories to your avatar that have no implications on game play, but cost an arm and a leg. Basically you can buy a eye piece for your avatar that does nothing for game play, but that eye piece cost more than some of the better ships in the game.

Also, one of the more popular, long time, players was banned for some reason (I haven't read up on it) and a lot of folks a pissed out that to,

[Spooky]

Looks like there are about 50k people logged into the game right now and about 2500 of them are in that system. I've never seen this system have more than 2-300 in it.

I am at lunch and have my laptop here at work today. I just tried to login with my character that is based in the Jita system and got a message saying it is over populated right now, come back latter.

[Spooky]

Fantastic response to CCP from a very smart long time EVE player.

http://eve.beyondreality.se/NeXCQResponse.html

[Spooky]

You know it's bad when this guy makes an appearance in a thread responding to CCP's response to the players.

[Eric]

Fantastic response to CCP from a very smart long time EVE player.

http://eve.beyondreality.se/NeXCQResponse.html

I haven't been that passionate about a game in years, if ever.

[Spooky]

Tippia seems like a cool person (he/she?). I learned a lot reading her (I'll say her because the avatar is female) responses to a lot of the noob questions that came up on the board. I think she's been playing since EVE started in 2003 and is probably the most knowledgeable player I've come across in the forums since I started playing.

[AdmiralDigby]

You know it's bad when this guy makes an appearance in a thread responding to CCP's response to the players.

Man , I miss that guy .

He should freelance for some other hapless despots .....