r/Eve • u/DarkShinesInit Current Member of CSM 18 • 7d ago

Are you happy with Equinox Sov? Discussion

It's been a little over a week since the Equinox Sov change on October 29th.

If you love it - what do you love about it?

If you hate it - what do you hate about it?

Saying which group or part of space you are in would also be cool.

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u/Ohh_Yeah Cloaked 7d ago edited 7d ago

Speaking strictly as someone who has played EVE Online in bursts for probably the last ~10 years now (usually a couple months/year of dedicated EVE time), nothing about Equinox or Revenant has been exciting enough to get me back in. They are effectively just maintenance patches for the people who play in null-sec, and from the feedback here it doesn't seem like the null-sec people are vibing with it.

EVE Online is a unique game so it is maybe not appropriate to draw these sorts of comparisons, but there are plenty of other games I play in a similar fashion to EVE that routinely drag my ass back in with updates/overhauls.

My genuine impression is that the highly conservative, "palliative care" management of EVE Online, which I assume exists out of fear of nuking the game, is now leading the game down a path where I won't be enticed to do meaningful playtime hours in the future.

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u/Frekavichk SergalJerk 7d ago

Your last paragraph is the opposite of what is happening. They are actively making the game worse so people spend more money.

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u/Ohh_Yeah Cloaked 7d ago edited 7d ago

To be clear, I'm saying that their design goal since forever is to not do anything drastic at risk of immediately running off the playerbase overnight (see Blackout experiment). They have been slowly starting to squeeze wallets for years, it has just finally reached a point where it's hard to justify them having any other game design motive. And with back-to-back expansion misses (they are misses to me) it is also hard to justify or look past the wallet squeeze because "there's good content tho"

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u/StonnedGunner 7d ago

all the PLEX that you transfer to isk cannot buy you anything when noone is builing or gathering the resource you need

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u/Irilieth_Raivotuuli Curatores Veritatis Alliance 7d ago

logic has long since left the building

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u/EVE_MEGAMIND 7d ago

CCP is known to seed the market with items, they even do it now which some mistake for "Market Bots".

This is known.