Comment The longer version (Score 1) 4
Thousands of players are freaking out because the lead dev talks about how he wants to sell skills and stats that have, until now, only been available by playing the game.
As a counter point, a low level dev, who plays the game, thinks the cash shop should restricted to vanity items. The current price of these vanity items, when from the company directly, ranges from $12-$60.
In this same leaked document, it's clear that they plan on carrying this ability to buy power over to DUST 514 for the PS3 and which will share the same world as Eve.
Furthermore it's also made clear that with this new source of revenue, they plan on developing other games.
All of this comes on top of new hardware requirements for yesterday's patch.
Eve has been around since 2003 and they have decided to change the rules.
http://www.evenews24.com/2011/06/22/greed-is-good-purportedly-leaked-internal-bulletin-shows-ccps-refreshing-new-direction/
Leaked document located at
http://eve-files.com/dl/244496
The password for the pdf is ‘dominixevenews24.