[2019] When is it ending? (Blackout)

Originally posted by LuluHottum

Hey Falcon, any chance we ever see those changes you mentioned to capital ships? I for one agree capitals have no place in ganking small ships and ratting...

Originally posted by AneuAng

Your data collection is already flawed, with the fact you've introduced so many programs in order to get people to login/kill NPCs and so on, during the blackout. How can that be a good data sample? It's ridiculous, on top of the fact your boss stated that its clear from people swapping to a 64bit client, means they are not risk adverse, what kind of logic is it your are using in your office?

Let me make this plain and simple for you, outside of the echo-chamber that is reddit, which you seem to use as your brain-storming saloon, the blackout is a massive flop. It does not fix the massive issues facing Eve. It does not fix the cyno-mechanics, it does not fix the capital proliferation, it does not fix the terrible sov system in place. Adding more chaos to these already terrible mechanics is not going to fix anything. The game is already one of the hardest MMOs to get into online, adding chaos, making it even more punishing is going to push people away from the game. This is not the way to fix things. Creating incentives to fight, reasons for big player-empires to attack one another, less restrictive and time consuming sov-mechanics, flash points, catalysts for wars. These are things that bring players, as exemplified by multiple data-sources of massive wars in eve.

You are killing your own game, even if the people who want easy kills on reddit are laying down at your feat, praising your every move, the data simply shows that blackout is killing nullsec, which is meant to be a player-generated area of the game, untouched by CCP, outside of structural changes to mechanics. The trajectory of online players is going down. Making the game harder wont change that.

Originally posted by realmz2012

Happy i quit EVE with the Blackout now just waiting for WoW Classic

Originally posted by StainGuy

Ok i think i see what make people confused :

The initial article was named:
https://www.eveonline.com/article/pu69gy/nullsec-local-blackout-incoming-during-july

Nullsec Local Blackout Incoming During July!

English is not my primary language - obviously - but you can say the same for many eve players.

I just checked and i understand this eg like this :

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=during+meaning

during
preposition: during

throughout the course or duration of (a period of time).

So more or less the title of your article is saying.

Nullsec Local Blackout Incoming During for the duration of July!

I am not the only person that read it/understand it this way.
But as i spend a way to much time on reading/podcasts i know that it is not going away - but i constantly hear from people "we need to wait till the end of the month".

Additional information clearing this up for non EN speaking people in launcher will not hurt any one.
I know that many people are waiting for its to end "with the end of month" as i constantly get people on various comms coming and asking "what is happening as i am playing other games atm and waiting"

Originally posted by StainGuy

Well trying to be honest here.
English is not my primary language. I read the title ... and my first impression is - it is till the end of the month.
I read the content, trying to not skip details ... ok it is not only for a month.

^{apparently many people skipped some parts in the content}

Like trying to be actually accurate with my assumptions here and showing where and why people can get wrong impression on the length.

Literally yesterday guy jumped on the TS we use and asked what changed as he was not logging in since the blackout started ... and it was meant to end tomorrow.

Originally posted by AneuAng

Considering past experience with CCP data gathering, you expect a player from 2003 to trust you on this?

Originally posted by AneuAng

That there are plentiful examples of why CCP say one thing and do another. How changes CCP make do not have the desired outcome and how CCP favour certain groups of players over others, need I bring up bob and T20?

Point is here, you come out with your soundbyte of wanting blackout to be permanent because you know it plays well with Reddit. It’s your job, you are a community manager. Your job is to make what flows down from above you palatable for players, but what I am seeing in addition to this is a pandering to a specific type of player that has caused CCP massive issues before. Maybe you don’t care anymore? Maybe you know the trajectory of the game is down from here?

Eve is a microcosm of hundreds of different play styles that CCP used to know was the strength of Eve, you’ve turned it into a bitter and twisted rage fest where people are even more vile to one another than I have ever seen before. I hope you are not proud of this, and I hope you realise that pandering to one group will simply accelerate the decline of this game.

Originally posted by zerodamage

I'm trying to decide if this would improve or further harm an already mostly dead part of New Eden (lowsec). The change alone without other changes i think would do harm i think.