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 gave no real idea how or if it’s possible to get back to that.
Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports
Submitted 4 days ago by tonytins@pawb.social to games@lemmy.world
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/eve-online-developers-ccp-are-being-sold-off-according-to-reports
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Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 days ago
athairmor@lemmy.world 4 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 4 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.
Walican132@lemmy.today 3 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
My sort of turning point where I stopped playing was when they added the ability to pay IRL money or ISK for skill points.
It was a much more interested game to me when there was no way around the time investment of learning skills.
Bahnd@lemmy.world 3 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 not 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.
Walican132@lemmy.today 3 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.
shroomato@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The Chinese Communist Party has a chance to do the funny
ErrorCode@lemmy.world 2 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.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 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 3 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 3 days ago
Its funny, then again ISK also means Icelandic krona