I already posted this over on the official forums, but thought I'd drop it in this thread too...
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.
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