EVE players are in revolt over CCP's blockchain plans—'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again to chase your player base away with crypto'

pcgamer.com:

EVE Online maker CCP Games announced Project Awakening(opens in new tab) yesterday, a new game set in the EVE universe that threatens to «combine CCP’s 25 years of game design experience with the latest in blockchain technology.» And while the reaction from various crypto pundits and people with ".eth" in their Twitter usernames was predictably bullish, swathes of the EVE Online community have responded with, well, scorn. Just pure, unbridled scorn.

The EVE Online subreddit(opens in new tab) is currently a wasteland of memes, rants, and anger about the project. Plenty of the upset revolves around blockchain as a concept: Players have been flooding the community with a series of posts with titles like "The shitposts will continue until CCP stops dealing with crypto(opens in new tab)" and "Eve Online scamming takes the next step with Blockchain(opens in new tab)". Others sarcastically recall the time CCP rejected NFTs as "Not For Tranquility(opens in new tab)" (Tranquility being the name of EVE Online's solitary game server).

Meanwhile, the responses to CCP's tweet announcing the project are torn between people who say things like(opens in new tab) «Speaking for the whole web3 space: we can't wait!» and EVE players calling those people clowns. A Twitter user named Kanonenfutter(opens in new tab) summed up the reaction as «People who've never played a single hour or Eve Online thinking this is a W,» predicting failure for Project Awakening and maybe even CCP as a whole unless «the blockchain technology is completely invisible to the average player.»

But players are also upset by what they see as CCP's long history of pursuing boondoggles at the expense of EVE Online's development, reserving particular ire for current CEO