I know this sounds absurdly little, but look at it this way: If you're out doing other things, you might find something you like and -never come back-.
This scares the bejeezus out of game developers who exist solely on the fact that people are addicted. If their playerbase actually went and did other things, they couldn't keep going.
So yeah, a few thousand people clogging up the arteries of the system is impressive, but having your numbers drop from 30,000 people at a time to 25,000 at a time is really scary.
1) The real rage is not over the Incarna vanity items, which are priced silly, but ultimately pointless. It is over a leaked memo which suggested that RMT was planned for game affecting items like ships, weapons, and faction standing.
2) If you quit EVE for even a little while, you are ceding control over space and resources to other players in the game. EVE is one of the few games that has fulfilled the promise of a truly persistent and meaningful game world. In the major alliances, there are political and military structures designed to ensure control over null-sec systems and the planets and facilities that can produce high-grade equipment.
For your suggestion to work, either players would have to decide that their protest is worth throwing away the time and effort they've put into territorial control and asset development OR that everyone in the game would have to agree not to take territory while the protest was going on.
If you stop playing after you already paid, the company isn't really going to suffer any immediate impact, and any visible dent in their metrics will probably be deferred until they see people not renewing subscriptions. A delay that large will basically kneecap any attempt at drawing attention to players' reaction to a change.
By not playing, you're not making anyone else currently playing the game aware of the protest. Although you're making CCP aware of your protest, you're becoming essentially invisible to the other users.
http://www.ps3trophies.com/forums/pc/63552-eve-online-virtua...
This is actually how I quit MMOs in college. When it started to feel like a job when I logged in every evening due to the commitments the game placed on a guild for "serious progression" I stopped logging into avoid it. Then I realized fairly quickly that were many other things I'd rather be doing and I cancelled.
Get someone to stop logging in for a week and you could very well lose them.
from a non-involved viewpoint it's an interesting take on what "price" might mean in post-scarcity environments.
Are they destroying in-game property by their actions? Or is it just noise? The post talks about the capital 'burning.'
All we need now is lulzsec to inject their galleon into the server to take everyone's credits in some kind of hilarious mirroring of the mtgox debacle.
Surely the opportunity for nautical/piratical double entendre, and apocalyptic nerd-drama is too much for them to resist?
EDIT: do the SA forums still control the eve universe these days?
http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/verite/influence.png
The top left yellow area is SA forums. Below them TEST ALLIANCE PLEASE IGNORE is mostly Reddit.
Can anyone who plays Eve comment on how the company is responding?
Most of it stems from the fact that those rioting feel the prioritization of the walking-in-stations expansion and the addition "vanity items" is poor judgement. There are bugs, missing features, and new changes that are viewed by the rioters to be of far greater importance than the time spent on this latest update.
There's a semi-offical "voice of the riot" here:http://eve.beyondreality.se/NeXCQResponse.html
And CCP's response here: http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=932
http://www.evenews24.com/2011/06/25/ccp-hilmar-global-email-...
Edit: there's another one at Amarr, http://www.justin.tv/dnah_pmip#/w/1381178160/2 but it's not as big.
Some people use online games like this to escape their real life, whether its to escape disease, sickness or other less serious things.
That which pays thy bills is the real world.
It can correspond to another statement: that which feeds thy mouth is the real world, too.
I can't eat virtual bread. It's not the real world.
Some would like it on other consoles (XBOX) and the rest feels betrayed for playing eve for so long and not being able to play on the PC.
Thats it! I'm quitting this game and giving all my ISK away for this 1 Tritanium!!!
