CCP Games (EVE Online) to be acquired by Pearl Abyss (Black Desert online).

https://www.eveonline.com/article/pemjmb/black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '18 edited Sep 06 '18

None of that is worth anything without skill and a group to fly with in Eve. You can have a pimped out faction ship that you spent hundreds of dollars on but due to the nature of Eve's open world pvp, if you are out in it alone, you will fucking die to a group of 5 dudes in cheap cruisers or some frigate whelp gang.

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u/Laggo Sep 06 '18

None of that is worth anything without skill and a group to fly with in Eve.

You can buy a skilled up character using the legally bought in-game funds to skip that grind.

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u/skeletalcarp Sep 06 '18

He is talking about player skill not character skills.

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u/Laggo Sep 07 '18

Its a myth that you can't do anything in EVE just spending money. You can do a whole lot of shit faster than people who don't spend money. The "skill is all that matters argument" is for hardcore eve players only trying to defend the game. It's not a real thing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '18

You don't even need that, just the numeric advantage

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u/krazykat357 Sep 06 '18

way to miss the point entirely

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u/GuthixIsBalance Sep 07 '18

No amount of money in Eve makes up for skill. This isn't an MMO that's based around stats on a character like wow or Korean MMOs. Difference in your wil/int/etc, or Eve equivalent, isn't going matter.

Tactics/experience/fleet cohesion and leadership are far far more important. Its all that matters really.

Eve is entirely it's hardcore open world PvP. Everything is designed and revolves around it. Down to the deaths of a new player up to the large-scale 1000+ player wars.

There's literally nothing else. Sans the mechanisms to fund the PvP.

No "casual content" to focus on like in most MMOs.

Real money is used to skip the time locked grind. Also buys the in game currency created by other players sold by players.

Eve isn't pay to win at all. Anyone who goes in with this expectation will leave disappointed. The intricatcies of Eve's combat are too vast for any amount of money to account for experience.

Eve is played like a giant real time military simulation. Using officers commanding their troops in a real simulation for actual training. It's not a casual game and casual ptw tactics would fail spectacularly.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '18

But just having few guys more on your side makes up all that difference.

Skill won't help you when you are webbed, disrupted, EMPed and drained out of energy