Maradusa Macarthy wrote:Aida Nu wrote:If you play for ISK you are doing it wrong. This is a game, play for fun.
If you are bored and dont have fun move on to other games.
Excellent point, but CCP just killed a very important element in this game that contributed to me having fun in this game which was seeking the wealth in uncharted territories. And now all you have to do is sell your own SP for isk which is just plain stupid to begin with and sigh.... why did CCP ever do such a thing to this game.
Anyways I'm gonna take a break like Chribba suggested and if I still feel the same way 2 months from now then I know this is the end of Eve for me.
I know how you feel though I'm not quiting because I have many friends that play.
Skill point trading didn't start the problem, it's actually been going on for years. Before 2009 it wasn't like that. Then CCP (in a quest to 'reward' people more) added regenerating anomalies, incursions, wormholes, burners, new rewards in old content (like when they introduced the Gistum and Pithum Invuls), the monstrosity called Faction Warfare missions and super buffed ways to make pve, exploration and mining isk with more ships, more bonuses and more shortcuts.
The end result is everything is cheap as all hell, wealth is so easy to generate that even before sp trading a 3 week old noob with a Vexor Navy Issue and tech1 heavy drones could go to the deepest part of null and make enough isk ratting ONE HOUR A DAY to buy a plex, and not long after that same guy is in a pirate BS doing high sec incursions.
CCP has totally muffed the rewards scheme of this game, and people who play for more than watching other people's ships explode are affected by this. It used to be a real thrill to get a 10/10 escalation while dodging people trying to scan me down and kill me. Now (even before this ridiculous SP trading) I get a 10/10 and there is a 50% chance I'm going to let it expire because I can't be arsed to jump my Sin to a cyno to do it.
And now with SP trading it's even worse. I got an Angel 10/10 holding right now. Do I do it and maybe make 500 mil (a sum that used to be useful) for an hour's play, or cash in the 75 bil I'm sitting on from an Alt I don't use that much? Doing that 10/10 now would feel like bobbing for Zimbabwe dollars.