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State of the Goonion – June 19 2022
18 months after the last address, given just ahead of the battles of M2-XFE, a State of the Goonion (SOTG) was held on June 19 at 1800 UTC. What follows below is the text of the speech given by The......
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Gwailar’s Requiem
On May 4, 2022, I logged into EVE Online for the last time. After more than 14 years, I have biomassed everything, and a GDPR purge request is pending with CCP to delete my eight accounts. In the time since......
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Scarcity 2.0
As everybody who pays attention to EVE-related news knows by now, CCP is raising the price of EVE Online (both Omega subscriptions and PLEX). The purpose of this article is not to comment on that decision either for or against*;......
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CCP Wants Your Unpaid Labor… or RMT.
By now, most readers are probably familiar with the Prospector Pack fiasco of this past week-and-change. Many of CCP’s customers are celebrating the removal of the pack. Multiple members of the CSM have expressed a sense of relief that CCP......
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State of the Goonion – June 19 2022
18 months after the last address, given just ahead of the battles of M2-XFE, a State of the Goonion (SOTG) was held on June 19 at 1800 UTC. What follows below is the text of the speech given by The…

CSM 17 Results Announced
Earlier this evening, the election results for the 17th Council of Stellar Management were announced, detailing the next ten player representatives to serve a year consulting with CCP and providing player feedback on issues within EVE Online. CCP Community Team…

CSM 17 Voting To Begin
On Tuesday, June 7 2022, voting will begin for CSM 17. Voting will run for one week, until June 14, with the final results of the voting tallied and announced two days later, on Thursday, June 16. With the new…

EVE | PLEX and Omega Changes are Live
On Tuesday May 17, the anticipated price changes for EVE Online went live with increases to both the price of PLEX and monthly subscriptions (Omega). These changes were first announced over a month ago, with the price for a direct-monthly…

Self-Policing and Public Relations
At 12:15 ET on March 23, Fraternity undocked over 30 Titans and a number of smaller ships. They then locked on to two of those Titans, Fraternity’s own, and blasted them into space dust. That’s right: Fraternity pointed the gun…

Is Game Design a Numbers Game?
Where should CCP’s priorities be, when it comes to game design? Does trying to please the most active people serve the health of the game, or should design decisions be agnostic of the current balance of numbers? There’s been a…

Do CCP Care? They do if you’re new.
And yes, umm, we are announcing big content updates for fan fest. It’s the largest one probably we have ever done.” CCP Paragon – Q&A Session. Two weeks ago, we were treated to a Q&A session with CCP Paragon, who…

Gwailar’s Requiem
On May 4, 2022, I logged into EVE Online for the last time. After more than 14 years, I have biomassed everything, and a GDPR purge request is pending with CCP to delete my eight accounts. In the time since…

Walking In Stations – Is It Enough?
Earlier this week, CCP Hilmar posted a tweet along with the latest EVE “news” teaser. The tweet in question reads “All these NPCs just casually walking in stations…”, which was followed by a Scope video about the latest NPC lore…

The Community Was EVE: A Four-Year Retrospective
In recent weeks, CCP Games has been mired in controversy, after controversy, after controversy, in the run up to EVE Online’s first Fanfest event in four years. I’m talking, of course, about selling in-game ships for real money with no…

What Is Play To Earn?
And Why Are We Talking About It? We’re discussing Play-To-Earn ahead of Fanfest 2022, which starts on May 5. One part of the speculation about CCP’s upcoming announcements has been the discussion around cryptocurrencies, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and how emerging…

Xenuria’s NDA Expiration and AMA
Recently, CCP have had a rough ride when it comes to the press. This week is promising to have much of the same in store for CCP and their communication team. Monday (April 25) started out as a pretty normal…

CCP Want More Of Your Money
Much like Netflix, CCP recently announced a subscription increase of 33%, increasing the cost of a one-month subscription from 14.95 US Dollars (USD) to 19.99 USD. These price increases are due to launch on May 17, 2022. EVE Versus Other…

Scarcity 2.0
As everybody who pays attention to EVE-related news knows by now, CCP is raising the price of EVE Online (both Omega subscriptions and PLEX). The purpose of this article is not to comment on that decision either for or against*;…
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