Gianturco, aka “The Mittani” declared on his site: “We will not stand idly by as an alliance while our subscription money goes to waste, watching the game we pay to play spiraling into entropy due to the folly and neglect of CCP’s management. It is not yet time to start a fire, but get your gasoline ready.”
Gianturco’s angry outburst has come with the introduction of microtransactions and the recently released avatar-based Incarna expansion. ”In the past, Eve expansions were based off the desires of the players, to augment their behaviour,” he raged. ”We need something new to do, not something new to wear.”
”Player Owned Stations exist because CCP noticed players stockpiling goods in safespots in GSCs. Outposts were added based on the obvious attempts to build more infrastructure in 0.0. Wormholes provided a place for players to indulge in a no-local environment and explore the unknown. Capital ships were created to deal with the POSes, and Supercapitals were made due to a fit of utter stupidity that haunts the Reykjavik office to this day,” Gianturco accused.
”Usually after an expansion there is a surge of players who join the game; these create peaks and valleys in PCU (Peak Concurrent User) numbers as people kick the tires on the new content and then either stick around or leave. Incarna, which has taken a tremendous amount of development and marketing resources from FiS (Flying in Space), essentially had no impact.”
Gianturco then expressed frustration when dealing with the upper echelons of CCP’s management team, saying, ”Our interactions with CCP’s upper management in the aftermath of the Emergency Summit have shown us that the suits are not treating the needs of the players with the gravity they deserve; our willingness to negotiate in a chill way with the FiS teams (which has met with obvious success) is being misinterpreted as a sign of weakness and compliance by the suits.”
“So the gloves come off … In the coming weeks we are going to be making some extremely loud statements regarding the neglect of FiS, the failure of Incarna, and the need for CCP’s management to pull the game out of this stall. We need something new to do, not something new to wear.”
What will this mean? With a niche space simulation MMO like EVE Online, there is a very fine line between sustainability and collapse, and there is a possibility that it could become the very first MMO to devour itself from inside.
Stay tuned.
