Would you quit if everyone's Sp was reset back to 500K?

If yes then doesn't that tell you that the SP leveling system is broken?

If yes doesn't that tell you game play is really not all that fun anymore with the update?

If yes then how do you think a new player feels when they come here and not only start with 500K Sp but have to go up against people with 8 million SP? What chance is there that if you were them that you would stay for very long?

Why did people join the game during Beta? To give it a try or to get ahead before the official release?

Beta is for mass testing, simple, how many of you have actually submitted bug reports instead of bleating on the forums? Beta isn't for grinding and getting ahead, its for finding issues and reporting them correctly so they can be fixed.

The game isn't released yet so CCP can do as they wish. I really do doubt those people that have abused the Beta phase in the hopes to get ahead will actually laave and if they do, so what, this game is going to be around for a while.

They should reset - fully on release. How do CCP,expect to encourage new players to stay. As a free game there isn't any financial encouragement to play more than a couple of rounds when they start. The only way to get people to stay is too make it fun. There is a real danger that the game will be stuck with a corp of old players which will diminish over time.

No I would not quit

This. It's pretty strange that people seem to take it for granted there's no reset at launch, when this is the only game which doesn't have a reset. Every beta has a reset at launch.

As if it's not enough of an advantage that beta players know the game inside and out, now CCP is giving us up to 10m SP on top of that.

No but i would want something for all the time all of us have spent on grinding away to get it up

Reset the SP of everyone. It was a beta. Once a game goes live all SP/Exp/Equipment should be reset, period , end of story.

First game I've witnessed where all they earned during beta was not reset.

Aditional: Everyone who invested their hard earned cash on any type of AUR purchases should be given (opinion) :

1- 500k (example of starter SP, like its a new account) + Additional SP whereby X Amount of Aur = X Amount Additional SP (could be 10; 5000; 50,000 whatever)

and/or

2- Increased SP Earned per match and/or Increased ISK earned per match, during X Amount of Time (according to AUR spent).

So true. Being a free game, it is very important that the new players' VERY FIRST impression be an enjoyable one.

If they hop into their first match and are completely outmatched by better-geared, more experienced players, there is absolutely nothing preventing them from just deleting the game and moving on.

"Dust? Yeah, I tried it, got my ass kicked, didn't like it. Oh well, at least it didn't cost me anything."

If they enjoy themselves, they'll be more likely to stick around and, hopefully, some will spend money.

They don't even have to win, they only have to feel like they have the potential to win. This won't happen if they're thrown to the wolves, against seemingly unfair, unsurmountable odds, the very first time they play.

Any game needs new players, especially at launch, in order to thrive and survive. You cannot have a successful game by only catering to a handful of hardcore players. People need to stop thinking in selfish terms of how a reset would affect them personally, and start thinking about what is good for the game itself, and it's future.

There's a reason nearly every other game in existence has reset their players at the end of the beta.

absolutely.. in fact already quit due to a joke of a patch...

If you've already quit, then the point is moot, isn't it?

How is the server dying a moot point?

Would you quit if everyone's Sp was reset back to 500K?

If yes then doesn't that tell you that the SP leveling system is broken?

If yes doesn't that tell you game play is really not all that fun anymore with the update?

If yes then how do you think a new player feels when they come here and not only start with 500K Sp but have to go up against people with 8 million SP?

What chance is there that if you were them that you would stay for very long?

The matchmaking problems have already been pointed out numerous times, and that IS the only solution for this. Make 'noob' only matches. ANY other solution will NOT prevent them from being bulldozered by squads that know how to play - since they have been doing so for almost a year.