You know what the best way to protest a game is? Stop playing for a while and send an email.<p>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-.<p>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.<p>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.
> for people not familiar with EVE: Jita is the main trade hub of the game. Since EVE only has one server, that makes Jita the de-facto capital of the game, and it's main system. There are other simmilar (but smaller) trade hubs (Amarr and Rens, among others), and those are seeing protests as well. Those systems have a hard limit to their population, and when it's capped, the gates close. The protests seem to have capped both Amarr and Jita, and are therefore stopping people from entering the picketed systems, slowing down the player-driven market inside them.<p><a href="http://www.ps3trophies.com/forums/pc/63552-eve-online-virtual-jita-protest-over-ccps-microtransaction-system.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ps3trophies.com/forums/pc/63552-eve-online-virtua...</a>
i don't know much about this, but it seems that they've introduced vanity items at "real world" prices. so you can buy, say, "designer" clothing for several hundred dollars. at the same time, the hardware you use in the game is staying at a much lower level. now obviously they can't charge realistic prices for spaceships, but the resulting contrast seems to be surprising a lot of people.<p>from a non-involved viewpoint it's an interesting take on what "price" might mean in post-scarcity environments.
Virtual riots. Fascinating. SPACE ANARCHY!<p>Are they destroying in-game property by their actions? Or is it just noise? The post talks about the capital 'burning.'<p>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.<p>Surely the opportunity for nautical/piratical double entendre, <i>and</i> apocalyptic nerd-drama is too much for them to resist?<p>EDIT: do the SA forums still control the eve universe these days?
When I played Runescape, we had similar massive riots over the removal of free trade and the old pvp system (wilderness pking). The pkers were on average decidedly less mature than the average player, so there was really poor communication from them, but also from the company Jagex, who struggled to explain the 'why' behind the changes.<p>Can anyone who plays Eve comment on how the company is responding?
And now an email from the CCP CEO has leaked, which ignores the significant problems with the deployment and essentially says that he will not listen to the users (cloaked in some otherwise reasonable language).<p><a href="http://www.evenews24.com/2011/06/25/ccp-hilmar-global-email-shows-the-reasoning-behind-ccp-zulu-devblog/" rel="nofollow">http://www.evenews24.com/2011/06/25/ccp-hilmar-global-email-...</a>
Live video of the Jita protest: <a href="http://en.justin.tv/deamosseraph" rel="nofollow">http://en.justin.tv/deamosseraph</a> It's really quite impressive!<p>Edit: there's another one at Amarr, <a href="http://www.justin.tv/dnah_pmip#/w/1381178160/2" rel="nofollow">http://www.justin.tv/dnah_pmip#/w/1381178160/2</a> but it's not as big.
I partially believe that CCP will end up being okay after the dust settles just because I have never known of any gaming community to have a truly successful protest. The sad part is that the precedence this sets is antithesis to good customer service.
i believe also that a lot of players weren't happy with the upcoming Dust514 being Playstation only.<p>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.<p>Thats it! I'm quitting this game and giving all my ISK away for this 1 Tritanium!!!