Jita, The Forge – CCP Games announced Tuesday that the purchase history for Skill Boost Bundles has been reset in the New Eden Store, giving every capsuleer another opportunity to accelerate their training and unlock new possibilities. Within hours, the Jita 4-4 market hub reported a 340% spike in panic-selling of existing skill injectors, as veteran traders realized their entire economic model had just been declared optional.
This is a disaster, said market analyst ISK_Liquidity_Crisis, reached via holo-conference from his trading alt in Perimeter. I built a supply chain. I had suppliers. I had buyers. I had a spreadsheet with seventeen tabs. Now CCP just… reset history. Do you know what that does to a man who has been cornering the skill injector market since the Triglavian invasion?
The redesigned bundles, first introduced last year after community feedback, offer a direct injection of skill points at a price point that veteran traders describe as competitive and an act of war against the secondary market. The reset means capsuleers who previously purchased bundles can now do so again, effectively creating a renewable faucet of skill points that bypasses the complex ecosystem of injector manufacturing, PLEX arbitrage, and the ritualistic sacrifice of unused alts that has sustained Jitas economy for years.
I was halfway through a 40 billion ISK injector production run when the news hit, said industrialist Structural_Integrity_Failed, speaking from a wormhole colony that may or may not still exist. My phone – sorry, my Neocom – started buzzing. All my buyers canceled. They said why buy from you when the store is back in stock? I said because I have a relationship with you. They said we have a relationship with cheap SP. Fair point, I guess.
CCPs official statement emphasized that the reset was designed to give players another opportunity and was not, in their words, a calculated assault on the secondary market that exists entirely because of our previous design decisions. The company declined to comment on whether future resets would follow a predictable schedule, or if they would continue to be deployed at the exact moment market manipulators achieve maximum leverage.
Meanwhile, in Deklein, a coalition of null-sec bloc economists issued a joint statement calling the reset a valuable lesson in why we do not keep our liquid ISK in skill injectors. Sources close to the blocs finance team confirmed they are currently converting all assets into PLEX and burying them in a POS somewhere in Branch.
At press time, a single capsuleer was observed purchasing 47 Skill Boost Bundles simultaneously, then immediately biomassing the character. CCP customer support logged it as user error.
