Ah Eve Online, the eternal struggle, the joy and the sadness, the pleasure and the pain, Eve giveth and CCP taketh away(*see Nerfbat/Balance pass's).
There was less said about the future of Eve this year than other fanfests and I found myself fast forwarding through a lot of the posted content on youtube. At least they are taking it slower to "think" things out.... I hope. I still find a lot of their coverage cringe-worthy, but that's just me. The new song for instance is imho the worst yet.
There are others commenting about fanfest in a better light(?) than I. I'm bitter and salty.
I do hate the way the new version of plex is being treated like gold press latinum. Gold from Valkyrie has made it's way to Eve Online for marketing purposes. For a games company that shoots for the stars, they really scrape the marketing gutter at times. At least Star Trek Online has their universe currencies and runs with them on Star Trek themes. Plex until now has never been associated with gold before. As a pilots license it seemed more authentic, but splitting it up could have been marketed better any other way than goldifiying it. Its a small thing in the grand scheme but it irks me as I feel it cheapens the game image. Another game you can buy gold for 'oh joy'. Some things are not worth copying from other games!
I do really, really like the new character select theme music from the latest patch.
I applaud the latest quality of life changes and improving the overall universe, graphics etc. For me the only thing I wanted to check on were the new sun models. Really nice.
With fanfest and Eve development turning a corner to the PvE isle I'm been even more facpalming than ever. A constant needle in my brain is that my particular style of gameplay within Eve, solo PvE, part of the silent majority, despised by those that revel and enjoy player assplosions, is being reshaped yet again in ways that it probably doesnt' need to be. Why CCP wouldn't really shake up null for some proper constant war justifications is beyond me.... no wait they are scared of loosing players or having people that already shout, shout louder.
CCP say they are for all gamestyles but they will have to do and implement a lot to get me back into the game in any serious way(x2). Solo PvE content, it's what all other MMO's do without batting an eye, yet CCP have to work so hard and develop new tools before they try to make it all work. Not that I am convinced it will work. They are going to try and please people by giving them a challenge, that never works out well. If only they would copy the best parts of other games systems and improve on them within Eve. They wouldn't be the first to do so. Saying Eve has dungeons dont' make it really so. And why they are calling logistics 'healers' now is hypocritical.
There are concerns that PvE is being turned down a more PvP route(again) and i think that there is justification for thinking that, its called a lack of trust due to past experiences. Burner mission anyone!
I dont' care that there are Blood Raider ship yards and capitals to shoot, time will tell what their Hi-Sec plans turn out to be. Proof is in the pudding but I'm not hopeful. I've ignored their other hi-sec content additions and trying to get into the incursion clique community is hard, harder still due to not having any ingame mechanic for doing it(real dungeon system anyone!). I dont' like the way chef CCP thinks, works and implements what I'm supposed to 'like' the taste of. I'm not the only one to be thinking along those lines.
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