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Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago

CCP Games Inc made the following statement regarding today's announcements: "Interested parties should contact CCP Legal and provide offer details as well as proof of financing in the form of account statements in PLEX or ISK equal or greater to the stated offer. No lowballs. I know what I got." /s

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Send me your game development company and I’ll double it! See my bio for details. You must follow the instructions exactly or you won’t get anything.

[-] Nomad@infosec.pub 4 points 4 days ago

Its funny, then again ISK also means Icelandic krona

[-] shroomato@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

The Chinese Communist Party has a chance to do the funny

[-] ErrorCode@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

EVE will always have a place in my heart. At my peak I had 4 accounts and was one of the directors of a corp. It also meant I was putting in about 3-4 hours a day on weekdays and more on weekends.

[-] Walican132@lemmy.today 13 points 4 days ago

It’s a bummer. Eve is special but CCP hasn’t seem intent on running a healthy game in over 10 years at least. I’m not sure if it was PA or their choice to launch a Vr game I always wanted to try that. And I do think they should pursue the mixed game approach. Playing Dust back in the day with friends and piloting a destroyer to do orbital bombardments was something special.

I digress I hope Eve and CCP are ok in the long run.

[-] MangoPenguin 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My sort of turning point where I stopped playing was when they added the ability to just inject skill points.

It was a much more interesting and fun game to me when there was no way around the time investment of learning skills.

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I dont blame you for that being the change that made you win EvE, I also think fondly of that era, but also recognize that MMO players in 2025 would have hated the old game. The timegating of skills made it so characters had value, now they dont, people do and the shifting dynamics in 0.0 have come to reflect that (See the N+1 problem and the attempts to claw back an out of control ISK faucets).

I do think the game is in a healthier place, but thats only been over the last year or so.

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

It also somewhat helped curb alts. You couldn't just have an alt that did a thing in day.

But the isk and resource faucets were a problem from day one. It's a resource hoarding game and it became too safe.

That era to me was also filled with clever scams and IMO as CCP made it safer for people it took a lot of magic out of the game. You used to have to be smart and attentive to play. Now it throws warnings at you for all sorts of things. Or got rid of some very fun mechanics (like pos bowling and lofty wars)

I also used to love spending 2m to war dec a corp. I would have dozens of wars going. And it wasn't like small corps. It was fun to war dec all the big alliances at once with your little 5 man corp.

[-] Walican132@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

I quit long before that. I don’t even remember what my last straw was. I still follow the news occasionally and now that it’s free to play I log in like once a year just to look.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There are probably better owners than Pearl Abyss, so in a sense that could be a reason for hope. Though I don't know how much of a hand they have had with all the crap CCP have failed with over the years. Peak EVE was so amazing, but I honestly have no real idea how or if it's possible to get back to that.

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

On the other hand, the new blockchain game they just released had funding from Marc Andreessen. So, color me skeptical.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 10 points 5 days ago

Yeah it's convenient to blame Pearl Abyss for everything wrong with EVE, but truthfully CCP were making moves of dubious quality way before they got bought up by them.

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