Very apt sum up. Increase in game price with no additional content added nets player a higher price for a lesser game.
I mean to be fair you’re all getting free skins and I just love this quote. “When profits were soaring” Goes to show what’s really important.
If you subscribe all three of your accounts they can all be logged in on the same machine at once. This has always been a thing.
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It costs you more money to buy 500 plex then use that plex to activate omega for 1 month on your account. CCP would love everyone to buy plex to omega your account because that would mean your month just cost you $20 vs $15 (old price). So when the newbies jump in and want that boost in isk they can. And if you want to farm that isk and buy your 500 plex off the market there is someone willing to buy it with RL money and sell it to you in game.
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I do wonder WHAT groundbreaking and revolutionary they will announce at fanfest to justify the price?
Because their hirstory of groundbreaking additions to the core gameplay of eve, well they most likely all failed.
DUST 514? Failed.
EvE Valkyrie? Failed.
EvE Project: Nova? Failed.
sec wars tech demo?
failed.
atmospheric flight tech demo?
failed.
walking in station?
failed.
And even if they come up with something spectacular, who tells us it wont get canceled like basically all their earlier attempts in “biggest expansion ever”- stuff?
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How do you know? The right offer they might, Twitter sold out (they had to or face huge legal challenges and costs) for the right price.
You would sell yourself out for the right price too I bet.
Because you don’t buy a long-term investment, then divest in only 4 years.
Bezos doesn’t have enough money.
And miss a good offer they may never see again? Eve is in the tail end of decline, Peak Eve was 2013.
I bet he has a lot of data on you already. You already sold out.
And they began negotiations years after that. Moreover, if you check the earning reports, EVE’s bottom line has held pretty steady or grown, Year-over-year, even with the Blackout misstep.
I’m sure he does have data on me. That doesn’t mean I’ve sold out, only that I’ve allowed some data to be out there on the net. I tend to pay attention to what information I put out, though.
You might be surprised at the output of a GDPR data request. But you’ve already done that, right?
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Not being an EU citizen or living in the EU, I don’t have the right to file a GDPR data request. But, you know, making an effort to be informed means I know that. 
And what is the driver of that growth? Perhaps now is the time it stops going up and PA take more notice.
If subs goes down, that means PLEX bundle sales will have to sustain it. Everytime it appears to cause a drop panic, we see discount offers pushed?
They can always do the political PLEX marketing again to sell more and reduce tax liabilities (people forget they can also reduce their tax liabilties on any charitable spending, it’s not just for companies).
Well, given the trend in population numbers, it’s pretty clearly been more money from fewer people, so it’s likely microtransactions and/or PLEX sales.
It’s not even true on paper. It hinges on the flawed assumption that existing players can pay more than they already do. Baring some kind of rare economic boom with wages increasing across the board, they simply don’t.
Digital entertainment services require a post-industrial way of thinking.
1 more customers is ALWAYS better, because the company is simply copying their own existing data, at no additional cost
2 an individual customer is only worth an X amount of dollars (CCP isn’t controlling the customers wages after all)
3 you rank your customers in tiers, for how much they are worth and have offers at all price points
4 you don’t raise prices, but rather, you add new things to sell
5 failure to do number 4, effectively means making your digital service a worse experience within the customer tiers, while your service still exists at an infinite supply on your own end.
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Actually the UK price point has been treated as special, it was given an increase in 2020, and it never follows the base conversion rate. So wind your neck in and move on.
Why are the servers hosted in the UK rather than Iceland? Is it cost? Is it technical? Is it regulatory? Just asking.
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Our hamsters are the fastest in the world.
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They also know how to party 
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Resubscriped my account(s) in support of fair trade with CCP; we all need to be pay our bills and make choices, and we all sometimes make smart moves and mistakes. This may be either, we will see later.
In my opinion many players paying little are worth more than a few paying much, both to CCP and the player base as a whole, but what do I really know about the background for your choices? Perhaps you can elaborate?
What I do know is this: To keep the faith of the players who like EVE just for what it started as, no more and no less than a sandbox, please do convenience and content upgrades but keep the universe and balances as they are: Physics or economics in the real world do not change because somebody find an exploit or deadlock a trading object; let it happen and you will see the players rally to fix what players broke.
What players cannot fix, is what developers break. So please do new content, but do it with care and do not change the old mechanics; you may break much more than you build - build in new places instead.
Thank you in advance for listening CCP, looking forward to many more years of EVE.
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