Arachon said:
Right....
First of all, "free titans"? Are you referring to the t20 scandal? Wasn't that about T2 blueprints?
Ghost training... Well... It's a tangled issue... I can see why people were upset when they removed it, but then again, I can see why they did remove it, they are a business after all, that offers a service in return for payment. They can't have people taking advantage of said service without paying, that's uneconomical.
And besides, when ghost training was taken out, everyone and their dog was all up in tears about how they would cancel all their 500 subscriptions, and how the game would die the next day, yet two years later, the game shows no signs of "dying".
"Mod bias against NC"? I'm sorry, but that comes of as somewhat insubstantial
I don't agree with everything CCP has done, by far, but they're easily one of the most innovating and transparent developers out there, who has taken a relatively new medium and done something unique with it, rather than churn out carbon-copies of popular games, hoping to make an easy buck.
Of course they have flaws (t20 scandal being an excellent example of that), everything has. And you have to remember that EVE is CCP's first game, development started with 24 people, and they've practically picked up what they know "on the way". In such a process, there's bound to be falls, but I really wouldn't call them "atrocious", and as a former SWG player, I like to believe that I have a fairly accurate understanding of what "atrocious" handling of an MMOG is.
No idea the official name for the scandal but basically a CCP employer gave BoB free stuff.
You can argue why ghost training should have been removed but you can't argue about the absolutely god-awful way CCP handled it. It was just as the Icelandic economy collapsed but instead of saying so they pretended it was a bug that had never been fixed. Yeah, sure....
Plus without it EvE literally just becomes a complete bullsh*t of a game - you end up essentially paying £15 for one skill point? Screw that.
Clearly if you don't know about the mods being baised to the NC you really haven't gotten involved in 0 politics. I quit after ghost training but my r/l mate (now 80 mill+ character) stayed with the game & he quit because of the mod bias.
For example BoB invades a NC sector. The server crashes and when petitioned, all the destroyed BoB ships are returned to a safe sector.
On the flip side when NC invaded BoB space, trapped a bunch of BoB capitals suddenly the server crashed, while it was way from being overloaded, but hey, sh*t happens...However instead of the destroyed NC ships being returned to NC space, they were respawned EMPTY in BoB space. Now please tell me how the f**k that seems like a good idea?
This is one of many, many incidences. Seriously when you get involved in 0 space you begin to see that the mods are breaking the game.
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