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Why would alphas, players who are by definition not paying for a subscription, leave because the price of the thing they aren’t paying for goes up?
Also, let’s keep some perspective here: UK prices have gone up by ~20%, almost exactly in line with the decline in the value of the GPB post-Brexit, and have not gone up in countries that have not had a decline in the value of their currency. As a US player I’ve been paying the same subscription cost since 2006, meaning the price of EVE has gone down after adjusting for inflation. Your claim that CCP is increasing prices towards an unsustainable point in an effort to extract maximum income from addicts is, like all of your ideas, entirely without merit.