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'Eve Online' Studio Acquired By Korean MMO Maker (engadget.com)
MAXOMENOS writes: EVE Online developer CCP Games has been acquired by Pearl Abyss, the South Korean studio behind the action-oriented MMORPG Black Desert Online. According to VentureBeat, the deal was worth $425 million and will close in early October. It's a surprise announcement for CCP, which has long operated as an independent developer. Eve Online isn't the biggest MMORPG on the market, but it has maintained a steady and loyal userbase through continuous updates and a well-timed switch to a hybrid premium and free-to-play model. The 15-year-old game is unique, too, with its large-scale battles and notoriously complex economic and political systems.
Now watch the new owners completely misunderstand the userbase's culture and wreck a good thing.
Liberty - Security - Laziness - Pick any two.
Does that mean it costs extra now to play it in the USA? ;]
I'd be worried if I were an EVE Online fan.
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I see all the default clothes are bland and I need to pay real money for a cool outfit. Aesthetics are important to me. (Which is why I spend so much time on sculpting my character.) So I really don’t want to spend the rest of my time looking at these blando outfits. Sigh. Fine. What’s a pretend suit of armor cost these days? Three bucks? Five bucks?
FORTY SIX AMERICAN DOLLARS? ARE YOU TRYING TO START A FIGHT?
The cheap outfits can be had for $22. They also offer ladies underwear sets for just $7, if you want to run around in your underpants. (I don’t, thanks.)
(They also offer similar options for male characters. I was tempted to get the outfit that would let my kung-fu guy go shirtless, because he’s a kung-fu dude. But all of the choices looked like modern-day boxers. You can’t just wear baggy pants with no shirt.)
Would you like to dye that super-expensive outfit you just bought? Or any other outfit? That will set you back another $10. And that’s somehow a rental. Your ten bucks gets you a month of being allowed to have dyed clothes. After the month is up, your clothes revert to their original colors and you gotta fork over another $10.
Do you enjoy wheeling and dealing at the auction house in other games, but the egregious 35% tax on all your sales is making it impossible for you to have fun or turn a profit? Pay fifteen real-world dollars and the tax will go down to the normal 5%. (For one month.)
Everything is exorbitantly priced like this. It’s so outrageously expensive that I get immediately pissed off. It’s not even about the money, it’s about the sheer audacity of the seller to ask this much[2] for what should be trivial virtual goods. Even if you’re a millionaire, you’re still likely to get offended if someone tries to sell you a stick of ordinary gum for five bucks.
If that isn't a match made in hell I don't know what is.
This is a good thing. Once Koreans and Chinese understand the gist of EVE, all the munchkins spending thousands on PLEX are going to be bawling to Mommy that they get podded the millisecond they leave highsec space by corps who know what they are doing. Better insure that Titan.
Since its unofficial tagline is, ya know, "spreadsheet online"
CCP bought the rights to White Wolf, the studio that created the old World of Darkness tabletop games. By all accounts they've been botching it up with weird political editorial meddling, and pissing off their writers. I wonder if this will bring positive change, or just kill the line off altogether?
My god... that number is kinda high...
That aside... this new owner will just accentuate the problem areas of Eve that kept it from truly meeting it's potential.
As it is, it's already a griefing sandbox with little wiggle room for anything except PVP and/or massive corporate/alliance industry or fleet ops. When it could be far more balanced and appeal to a larger player base.
Pushing it further into "gang warfare" style griefing will eventually make the player base smaller.
I stopped playing in 2016. So I played for 12 years. In the old days you could strike out into deep space and have an adventure. These days you can't do that without a full armada or a covert ops frigate. Forget being an industrialist or a trader. Without military backing you can do nothing.
Eve online almost achieved greatness. The hope always was that they would expand space so it was really big... so you could get lost in it.
That's not going to happen now :(
Another consultant who stuck it out.
"We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx..."
Fuck clothes! Real or virtual!
Oh, and if I wanna fap in public, and you see / stare at, I will sue YOU for (sexual) harassment! Leave me alone, unless you're hot to me AND I have left my girlfriend! Cause I ain't thinking about you, saggy-tits unshaved radfem hippie, when I fap. Nobody does!
No more expansion packs but eve online will offer season passes at 4 different tier prices; standard, deluxe edition, legacy and ultimate edition.
"Eve Online", also affectionately known as "Spreadsheet Simulator".
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Eve Online isn't the biggest MMORPG on the market
In other news: water is wet, and the sky is blue.
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