If you’ve seen this, you’ll know that CCP is going to disable so called “ghost training”, which is defined as an account that is inactive but still has skills training. How does this work? Suppose your account is due to run out tomorrow. You choose a long training skill (Gallente Battleship, for example, takes 41 days to train) and let your account run out. 40 days later, you reactivate it and you just had 40 days of training for free. From what I hear, this was actually promoted as part of the appeal of EVE when the game first came out.
Now, the forums are already seething with folks who are against this measure by CCP. From the usual “I’m going to quit!” , “You’re going to loose hundreds of costumers!”, to the always funny “You’re just trying to make more money out of us!” (it’s a company, what did you expect, that CCP would give you the game?)
My personal opinion on this is that if CCP wants to cut this out, I’m okay with that. It won’t affect me, and it will help to make things somewhat fairer for folks who actually pay for their alts.
Tags: EVE Online
October 15, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Couldn’t agree with you more on that mate! It’s just pathetic to see these whiners roam free on the Forums and cry for the supposed injustice.