CCP,
Can you confirm what your plans for BPOs are in short term and long term? Because your statement leaves open the possibility CCP will just remove them later a little at a time. Stating "no plans for the immediate future" means that CCP does have plans for BPOs in the future, just not right now. Can we get CCP to go on record right now to guarantee that they will not remove any more BPOS from the game? From where several of us sit it looks a lot like CCP has decided on a tactic to rotate through BPOs using the name of "rebalance" to remove them. Rebalance is good. Taking Permanent items with out exchanging it for a comparable or better permanent item is a breech of trust.

We can all be fairly certain of rebalance regularly occuring. Because it happens in every game that "balancing" occurs to change the mechanics and make a new game fresh again with changes to the tactics involved. In a past life I worked as a director for a game company, I saw first hand from the inside how it works. Game Companies do it in all MMOs and FPS, its a normal part of game creep and its actually a good thing to make changes to re-balance the game.

However it appears CCP is going a step further and using balancing also as a means to remove BPOs from those who invested in a PERMANENT item. You are being sneaky about it, and taking just enough to get away with it and then you wait for a period of time and then you will return those modules with a slightly different mechanic and under a different name and then later do it again, rinse, repeat. Most of us do not want Aurum, We dont want ISK, we want PERMANENT Items in exchange for this loss of what could be considered worth a cost of use of Billions of ISK in the future.

I would like to get CCP on record here... This tactic smacks of Game Creep used to take stuff from those of us who invested early in your game and kept it going... The difference between me and some of the other complainers is I have a background in the business and I can articulate what the tactic is and the impact as social networks move away from the game in response. If word gets out that CCP has issues keeping their word and listening to players feed back... your game is not going to grow like it could.

In the end CCP has a breech of trust, and a responsibility to restore that trust by replacing those BPOs with comparable BPOs.