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

Yesterday, I wrote about my chat with CCP's top brass about its upcoming survival MMO EVE 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 least open to the possibility they were doing something interesting with the technology.

Which, ah, sets me apart from the bulk of EVE Online's already-existing community, seems like. EVE players have been suspicious of Frontier—known until yesterday by its codename Project Awakening—for a good long while now, and it doesn't seem like yesterday's unveiling has assuaged them any. If anything, it's driven them to new depths of despair.

«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.»

Which, as an empath, I can tell you betrays a certain lack of enthusiasm for CCP's upcoming adventures in blockchain. Wolfwolf68 is far from alone. Their thread has attracted nearly a thousand upvotes and hundreds of comments, almost all of which share their negative sentiment. The current front page of the subreddit is awash in threads by players mocking Frontier or begging CCP not to proceed with it.

One player says they 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