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I have varied reasons for leaving:
1. CCP devs and GM's act like God's gift to mankind. A vast pool of incredible talent placed upon the Earth for the sole purpose of showing us how awesome they think they are. God help you if you don't agree with them. When they release new content, it isn't done with a "Hey guys, we hope you enjoy it" sort of attitude; it's done with a "We're so awesome, we stooped low enough to give you guys some content...aren't we awesome?" attitude. I tried to ignore this, but it's pretty sickening.
2. As someone has proven, many of the GM's have alts in high places in player corps; their enemies have strangely had capital ships vanish right before fights; this has been documented twice (that I know of). The people who posted links to fraps videos of this on the official forums were silenced.
3. Incarna was a joke. We are supposed to get new content every six months. What we got are new turrets visuals (half of which look worse than they did before, such as the railguns that look like fire extinguishers), and a half-assed 'walking in stations' setup that never lets you leave your quarters (and unable to do anything meaningful while there), which doesn't even work when you live at a POS. Also, missiles still look just as lame as ever, and mysteriously pop out of thin air beneath the ship.
4. CCP has demonstrated that they have no qualms about ruining the economy, which is the cornerstone of the game; I had assumed they would NEVER even consider doing this. With that firm foundation gone, I really have no faith whatsoever in CCP.
5. When confronted with the BS they are pulling, they simply said, in a published statement, that people are just pissed that a tshirt costs 20 bucks, and that it should, since it costs 20 bucks in real life. They completely ignored what pissed people off the most.
6. Railguns still suck horribly in medium and large turrets. People have been saying this on the forums for YEARS, yet CCP has yet to simply up their damage, accuracy, or something else to make them useful. There were rumors floating about that they'd do something to fix it with this release...instead, they fixed rockets. A weapon almost nobody cares about.
7. CCP makes a point of bragging about this 'sandbox' setup, and that there are no rules. Bullshit. My CEO sent in a ticket regarding a bug that went in rendering cans unanchorable in W-space. The GM simply closed the ticket repeatedly, with no reply. So, he went on the forums and raised hell. The result? CCP said, "there's no reason to live in a wormhole system", and locked the thread. So much for the sandbox, or devs who know what they're talking about.
8. GM's who laugh at players' misfortune, instead of helping them. As if the learning cliff wasn't steep enough, I was running a mission with a friend once...when we arrived at the jumpgate between Dodixie and Mies (I think...some system neighboring Dodixie), we were in a Drake and a Myrmidon. When we popped out the other side of the jumpgate, the Myrmidon had vanished, and its pilot was in his pod. The GM's response was, and I quote, "LOL Noob." For those of you who don't play EVE, there is no gameplay mechanic to explain this.
9. As often as CCP changes the balance of this game, and the fact that it can take 6-10 months to train into a new ship/weapon setup, it is unacceptable that there is no respec/reskill availability in EVE. When they nerf something, they tend to do it in such a way as to make it completely non-competitive, and thereby useless. The Ferox was originally rather formidable as a battlecruiser; now, if people see you flying one, it's assumed that you are using it as a gas harvester, or they assume you're new and have no idea what you're doing.
I hesitated to leave, simply because STO is the only other game out there with space combat, and while it incorporates firing arcs and twitch flight control, it's completely different. In the end, however, I couldn't support CCP, in light of what they're doing with EVE (or, in some cases, NOT doing with EVE).
I await Infinity with the utmost anticipation and the highest hopes.
/rant - didn't mean to rant, but I've played this game for the past five or six years, and it's one hell of a disappointment to see what they've done to this game. It was so much fun a few years ago, I had a hard time seeing what was happening until it started adding up.
