I’ve cleaned this thread out.
Keep away from profanity, personal attacks and attacks on CCP staff.
It’s perfectly fine to have a discussion regarding this, so long as you stick within the boundaries of the forum rules.
I’ve cleaned this thread out.
Keep away from profanity, personal attacks and attacks on CCP staff.
It’s perfectly fine to have a discussion regarding this, so long as you stick within the boundaries of the forum rules.
Just because I’m not responding, it doesn’t mean that I’m not collating feedback and getting it where it needs to go.
Hey guys,
Just wanted to drop in here now I have a clearer picture of the situation and can speak with some knowledge on what happened here.
We completely understand community concerns around the selling of Skill Points for cash, and we know how strongly you guys feel about this.
A few changes are going to be made to this pack soon in order to square things away.
Just to clarify things, we’ve sold starter skillpoint packs to rookies in the past via steam, and of course SP rewards are a thing through the recruiment program too. This isn’t something new, and we’re always looking for ways to increase the chances of a rookie pilot becoming a seasoned veteran that sticks with EVE for many years.
The objective of this pack was to give rookies a little bit more leeway with their initial training and to give them a leg up when it came to branching out into their first few new ships. While it’ll have that effect, it’s obviously been implemented in a way that’s causing community concern, so we’ll be making a couple of changes.
The first is that we’re currently looking at restricting the sale of this pack so that it’s available on account creation and lasts for 30 days.
Similarly, we’re also looking to restrict it so that it can only be used by accounts that are <30 days old.
We’re aware that there’s been a super strong community reaction to this pack going on sale and it wasn’t our intention to cause the pitchforks to come out.
Hopefully we’ll have this resolved soon.
I don’t disagree - you’re shooting the messenger mate.
We also have a substantial number of devs working toward improving the experience for new players during their first few hours in the game. We spoke about this at EVE North, and it’s something that’s on our radar for sure.
You’d be surprised at the freedom I have to write whatever the hell I want when I talk to you guys.
The last thing I am is on a leash - if I was, I wouldn’t be working for CCP
That’s the great thing about working community for CCP - regardless of who you’re talking to at the company, we give a ■■■■ about our players and everyone from myself right up to Hellmar is fine with our community communication being an open, candid two way street.
We don’t intentionally screw up or try to cause problems, and when we do we make sure we own them and set them right.
In this instance, we messed up and we’ll make sure that we fix the pack in question.
Consumerism in the games industry changes drastically and rapidly.
Games aren’t what they were five years ago. Hell, games aren’t what they were two years ago.
Audiences, their needs, their attention spans and the psychology behind how they play, when they play, what they play and what they pay for changes every time these shifts occur.
People can armchair develop all day long on a public forum, but the reality is that it’s useless without internal metrics on the behavior of the people who’re playing your game.
I hope you guys will be looking into ways to make the skill system more easy to use and intuitive for new players as we spoke about last summit - Giving them 1 million Skillpoints isn’t going to do much if they don’t know how to use them properly, and dump them into 1 L5 skill instead of spreading around to L3/L4’s like they should to make the best use of the head start.
Still, thank you for the quick reaction.
That’s exactly why this content pack was created and I’m not going to ■■■■■■■■ the community about that.
It’s literally called a starter pack.
No stress, always here to help.
We have an official feedback thread on this topic now.
As such, I’m closing this one.