What would be bigger than, say, adding wormhole space or super capitals or magic sovereignty entosis wands or Upwell structures? Those were all kind of big updates to contend with.
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But CCP Paragon’s words about the scale of the update makes me wonder what it could be. As I understand it, even the CSM is completely in the dark. I certainly have no special insight into this. If I am correct with any of this I will be shocked or dismayed… or possibly both. It is time to throw some bad guesses at the wall and see what ends up sticking. But now we have a blank slate and a promise that something huge will be coming. I usually don’t speculate about CCP announcements because they tend to be a surprise and often unfathomable before they become public.
That, leaving aside all the general ugliness around the price bump, gives us something to speculate about. To lay that out, CCP is going to announce some big things at EVE Fanfest next week that they think will soften player outrage about the 33% price jump. Several things were mentioned by him… only one of which was in the official announcement… as reasons for why CCP needs to raise the price of a subscription, along with a statement of mitigation, which is the quote at the top of the page. I don’t know what sin he was accused of, but this surely had to be penance for something. You want to announce late enough in the day that it misses the main news drops and hope that nobody notices or that something else shows up over the weekend to push your bad news down the list of topics on Monday.Īnyway, CCP dragged out CCP Paragon to stand up in front of the angry virtual crowd and speak about the price increase. They chose to make the announcement at the end of their business day on Friday, which is the traditional weaseling hour for public relations and marketing. At least they had the guts to put the price hike on the launcher, even if they call it an “update”
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