My main problem with the content is that I am a cheapskate and I don’t really want to invest in expensive ships that I am likely going to lose. I have been through sites where none of the rooms dropped any rewards and sites where all three rooms have had something for me.Īnd that statement is a clear indication that I have spent some time running Abyssal pockets with the crowd. You cannot answer the “what’s the ISK per hour” question with any certainty, and that makes some people angry.Īnd the randomness of the rewards is clearly a thing here. There is a slice of PvE players who both seem to hate the dull current mission content but who also insist that they won’t run any PvE content that doesn’t have a predictable reward. And those unhappy were not exactly a surprise. Of course, not everybody is happy… but then I don’t think there is a feature in any game anywhere that could make all fans happy. There has been a lot of chatter about Abyssal pockets. There seems to be a cross interest in the need to fit well and the constraints and difficulty of the content. Oddly, a lot of people excited about Abyssal pockets were not people I would have pegged for it, which is to say people who actually PvP regularly.
EVE ONLINE INTO THE ABYSS FREE
This tempest in a teapot led to a side debate about the sanctity of the New Eden economy as well as everybody getting a free Abyssal filament, but the streamers were on the job all the same showing off the pretty new content. (People rarely complain about this when they are the recipients.) However a streamer who did not get in on the free filament deal got angry on Twitter with the usual complaints about favoritism and fairness that come out whenever somebody else gets something for free. Streamers picked it up right away, though that was not without controversy.ĬCP gave some streamers from stream fleet five calm Abyssal filaments (one of each type of the lowest tier) about half a day after the Into the Abyss expansion went live in order to get people streaming the sites that night.
Abyssal fever may not last, but for the moment it is everywhere. I am seriously waiting for the Dev Blog from CCP on how things have gone… once they get the May MER and the CSM 13 election results out. Even some pods can make that list.) Trillions of ISK worth of ships have been destroyed so far in Abyssal pockets and players I never expected would go for PvE content have been draw in to the challenge of them. (Or if you just want to see the 1 billion ISK and up deaths, there is this page. You can watch the page on zKillboard and see all the ships getting blown up every day.
The lure of something new, the chance to make some fast ISK while prices were high, and the challenge of fitting for and fighting this new time limited content has combined to capture the focus of New Eden. But what has it got in its pocketses, eh?Ībyssal pockets, of which I was somewhat dismissive back when the Into the Abyss expansion went live, calling them “…solo PvE death dungeons… in space!” in my post about the expansion launch, have turned out to be popular.
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