EVE players are in revolt over CCP's blockchain plans: 'None of us want this crypto slop'

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A black hole hangs ominously in space.

Yesterday, I wrote about my chat with CCP’s top brass about its upcoming survival MMOEVE Frontier—a new game in the EVE universe that uses blockchain tech to (so goes the CCP pitch) take the player-led philosophy of EVE Online and make it weirder, wilder, and woolier, even letting players become effectively co-developers of the game alongside CCP. I went in as sceptical as I am of literally anything with the whiff of Web3 about it, but hearing the devs’ pitch left me at leastopento the possibility they were doing something interesting with the technology.

“I am saying this because I love EVE. Because I have been playing it almost every day of my life for 5 years now. Don’t do this,” writes an EVE subreddit user named Wolfwolf68 in a thread titled “Dear CCP: Don’t.”

“There is still time. You can still roll it back and pretend it never happened. Please. None of us want this crypto slop, this desperate cash grab, this attempt at ‘creating something great,’ this game where buzzwords seem more important than gameplay.”

One player saysthey used to struggle with addiction to the game, but CCP’s decisions have made it “real easy” not to go back. “Not only are you releasing shit updates as per usual, now crypto bullshit is coming too.”

Another post is titled “I have the solution to EVE: Frontiers[sic]” and suggests plugging the ethernet ports on the game’s servers directly into the mains (this would, in case you were wondering, probably not be enormously healthy for the servers).Another questionsif EVE’s player advocacy group—the Council of Stellar Management—had any forewarning about CCP’s foray into blockchain tech.

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A post that actually expressed optimism about Frontier has precisely zero upvotes. Some of the first responses to it simply read “No,” “Stop,” and “I disagree.”

You get the idea. It’s not just Reddit, either.EVE Frontier’s announcement tweetimmediately attracted scepticism. “Releasing a blockchain game a year after the weird hype about that technology died,” replied a user namedHannah. “You guys still pushing the blockchain horseshit with this, or did you learn your lesson and make an actual good game for once,” askedhecksadecimal. “I initially liked this cos I like EVE, but I just wanted to say I retract my Like because of the blockchain nonsense, thanks,” saidRob McLachlan.

The official EVE Online forums, and Discord, are much the same: TheEVE Frontier discussion threadhas garnered an entirely negative response from players so far. Meanwhile, the Discord is home to several players dismissing Frontier as “blockchain bullshit.”

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Still, CCP can take some comfort in the fact that at least the users on the officialFrontierDiscord—separate from the EVE Online one—are generally at least willing to hear the game out, which seems to be CCP’s go-to messaging for the game. “All I’m going to say, as always,” says community dev CCP Jötunn, “is that before anyone draws any conclusions they should check it out and then decide how they feel. If they’re here for the web3 tech and still hyped about it afterwards, then hell yeah brother.

“If people want to play the game specifically to blow up crypto speculators, then hell yeah to that as well.”

Before anyone draws any conclusions they should check it out and then decide how they feel.Jötunn, CCP community dev

Before anyone draws any conclusions they should check it out and then decide how they feel.

But mostly, it seems like CCP has quite a long road to hoe if it ever wants to win its currently existing playerbase over to Frontier, and I’ll be very curious to see if it manages it once EVE Frontier becomes available outside of closed playtests. For now, all players have to go on is whatever CCP is willing to divulge about the game and the godawful pre-existing reputation of blockchain games and Web3 nonsense, so it’s not exactly surprising the tone is this grim. If CCPdoesmanage to get these players on board, it’ll be a turnaround of historic proportions.

I hope it does, of course. Like I say, some of the ideas CCP spoke to me about sound genuinely fascinating, but there are still plenty of questions—especially about monetisation and, well, the United States Treasury—that need answering before I’m willing to commit to anything beyond curiosity. EVE Online’s existing players, meanwhile, will be even harder to win over.

Still, if it all goes wrong, a user namedRalli-FWhas a plan: “The best possible outcome here is that a bunch of crypto bros try this game, it sucks, and they come to EVE instead where we can slowly degrade their indoctrination and/or scam them into buying Enyocoin.”

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