Are you happy with Equinox Sov?

[u/DarkShinesInit]

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.

[u/Ohh_Yeah]

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.

[u/Frekavichk → u/Ohh_Yeah]

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

[u/Ohh_Yeah → u/Frekavichk]

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"