[NGTM-1R]

EVE is burning to the ground. The Devs have been caught in a direct lie to the playerbase regarding the future direction of the game, and only keep digging their hole. CCP employees are engaged in leaking internal documents regarding the controversy. Others are desperately deleting the documents as they appear on the forums and banning anyone who posts them. The Threadnaught is closing on 250 pages in a little over 24 hours.

I have a bag of popcorn and a front-row seat to the end of the world.

It's glorious.

[CommanderDJ]

EVE is burning to the ground. The Devs have been caught in a direct lie to the playerbase regarding the future direction of the game, and only keep digging their hole. CCP employees are engaged in leaking internal documents regarding the controversy. Others are desperately deleting the documents as they appear on the forums and banning anyone who posts them. The Threadnaught is closing on 250 pages in a little over 24 hours.

I have a bag of popcorn and a front-row seat to the end of the world.

It's glorious.

OMG that's hilarious. Links, sauce?

[NGTM-1R]

Greed Is Good, or why CCP is stupid. There was a clear line in the sand drawn earlier; vanity items for microtransactions only. Nothing else would be considered or done. They crossed it. This was an internal document; somebody leaked it.

Then CCP Hilmar, the CEO, tells everyone to ignore the upset players in a leaked email, we're doing great! Ignore the 15$k a month we just lost in unsubscribing players! It was at first assumed a troll, until...CCP Navigator, a forum mod, started banning people for posting it because it's internal communication between or with GMs/Devs, thereby asserting it's authentic.

Literal ingame riots. They even reprogrammed the NPC police to go rabid and kill anyone in the system.

EDIT: Let me add; I really did pop three bags of popcorn and sit down to read the threadnaught.

[General Battuta]

Greed Is Good, or why CCP is stupid. There was a clear line in the sand drawn earlier; vanity items for microtransactions only. Nothing else would be considered or done. They crossed it. This was an internal document; somebody leaked it.

Then CCP Hilmar, the CEO, tells everyone to ignore the upset players in a leaked email, we're doing great! Ignore the 15$k a month we just lost in unsubscribing players! It was at first assumed a troll, until...CCP Navigator, a forum mod, started banning people for posting it because it's internal communication between or with GMs/Devs, thereby asserting it's authentic.

Literal ingame riots. They even reprogrammed the NPC police to go rabid and kill anyone in the system.

EDIT: Let me add; I really did pop three bags of popcorn and sit down to read the threadnaught.

I second this, the entire thing is ****ing hilarious. Capitalism is even backing up the discontent - PLEX prices are crashing.

However I gotta call BS on the NPC police thing, that was fake I think.

also i just got blown up in VFK

[NGTM-1R]

However I gotta call BS on the NPC police thing, that was fake I think.

Headed to Jita to find out.

[NGTM-1R]

Appears it was a fake.

Appears, because I can't get into Jita.

[General Battuta]

Yeah, Fortress Jita is capped at 2500, or so Goons say.

[NGTM-1R]

Best failure cascade ever.

[CommanderDJ]

Best failure cascade ever.

OMG, I read all those articles you linked and then a few more. This is utterly awesomely funny, and I don't even play EVE.

[Mongoose]

* Mongoose looks at friends who paid $7.50 for a laughing taunt

Wow, though.  EvE is crazy enough on a normal day, but this is insane.

[Kszyhu]

Just a word of clarification - you are buying those things with second currency made from PLEXes, which can be bought with in-game currency. So you, personally, don't have to pay 60$ dollars... just some ridiculous amount of ISK. Which is just insane, not 'pants-on-head' insane.

[Mikes]

Considering that passes as "normal" gameplay in Eve... aren't the developers just displaying some of that behavior that their whole game is designed around?

Anyone else think the irony is priceless ?

[NGTM-1R]

Just a word of clarification - you are buying those things with second currency made from PLEXes, which can be bought with in-game currency. So you, personally, don't have to pay 60$ dollars... just some ridiculous amount of ISK. Which is just insane, not 'pants-on-head' insane.

At the prices when it came out, a monocle was well over 2bil in Isk; nearly enough to purchase a supercapital hull outright or buy the building blocks of a permanent outpost.

Not pants, perhaps, but definitely underwear.

[Kszyhu]

Are supercapitals that cheap? I've heard about 20-25bil ISK for one, 2 bil is enough for a fully fitted carrier. Anyway, right after deployment of the expansion I've thought that only a bunch of whiners were complaining, but after that poor attempt at damage control and that damned newsletter I'm not so sure.

[NGTM-1R]

Are supercapitals that cheap?

Just for the hull, yeah. Counting skills, fittings, and other costs, no.

[redalbatross]

I don't know whether to be terrified as an EVE player, or to laugh hysterically as someone who's a relatively casual carebear.

On one hand, people with enough money to hotdrop a carrier fleet on an Amarr Shuttle for kicks will leave the game. On the other hand, CCP is apparently being run by the lovechild of Hitler and Gordon Gekko.

Yeah, I just Godwin'd.

[AtomicClucker]

Insert HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Srsly, it's one thing to appeal to vanity, like some of WoWs vanity pets or mounts, but CCP is being pretty stupid.

[Angelus]

I spend over 6 hours yesterday reading through various threads and news sites and i am amazed.
Despite my deep aversion towards MMOs, i found that EvE is somewhat entertaining. 

[Unknown Target]

I don't get it...the prices are way overblown. So what? It looks like useless vanity stuff? I mean, one of the big examples is the $60 monacle...why not just not buy the monacle?

[The E]

The issue here isn't so much the ridiculous vanity items, the problem is a leaked internal memo that hints at plans to sell non-vanity (as in, gameplay affecting) items as well, which is seen as an attack on the player-run in-game economy.