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How is this?
And no, you can’t have my stuff.
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3,000 posts complaining about the price increase.
Now we will get another 3,000 complaining about a price increase that applies only to the first account.
The Eve community is special, just not in the way people might think.
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Something Awful
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they why raise prices in the first place?
can i have your stuff ?
-5 omega accout
4 x skill extractor + 500plex, per account is it not enough???
From reading this thread it seems the vast majority of you sub one month at a time. From CCP’s perspective the price increase makes perfect sense, even if only the first account pays it.
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If they want less customers it does indeed. But i dont think this is any company’s goal.
CCP is a subsidiary of a larger company, and also a subsidiary that lost $9 million over the last two years.
I find it remarkable that so may people make the assumption that CCP had any choice in the matter.
The price increase was boneheaded, poorly executed and I think pushed on them.
It also makes zero difference, this thread can grow to 10,000 posts the price change is not going away.
Any type of roll back would buy them the worst of everything. Loss of revenue and it would not gain them back any of the lost goodwill. The reaction to the multi account discount is proof of that.
Ah the typical ‘it wont change anything’ argument. Is wrong on so many levels, how could any company knows why the people giving them money are mad? Stopping subs is a way to show you’re not happy with something but telling them AND stopping subs is much more powerful. It’s like saying ‘shut up if you’re not happy with the politicians’. Sure a single voice wont do anything but a collective will.
If you are the owner of a shop and losing money, the last thing you should do is alienate your loyal customers. This only precipitates the fall.
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Unless you allow it to roll into Alpha.
PA quite possibly told the directors that they would lose bonuses and even their jobs if they didn’t make money. It would explain the current CCP mindset. I feel sorry for them and the players that have put so much of their lives into the game.
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Subbed my accounts for 12 months, which runs out just about… now. Perfect timing. Now to find another game. What is that you say…Star Citizen?
Why I feel this way was supported by the sentence right before your quote. It is my belief that PA forced this price increase. So it was not a “typical” argument, It is very specific to this case.
Thats very true. As I also said in the sentence before your first quote.
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I am curious. If you don’t mind me asking, what was it that pushed you over the edge?
Was it the $1.54 per month that the yearly subscription increased by or was it the principal of any increase at without new content? Was it something else?
If this thread is going to be of any real value, I think it would be important for people who are leaving to share why they decided to do so.
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There’s more to it than that though. I reckon CCP would have pissed off way fewer vets if only they announced the recent changes at the same time.
The way it’s developing right now is the less established players getting a less favorable deal than the vets, especially with multi-boxers going back to the old pricing now on additional accounts.
It’s looking more and more like the newbies and casual players are being picked to foot the new bills.
Buying PLEX to exchange for ISK, isn’t all that interesting even at 3.4 million ISK, when you can make a billion in a couple hours. So that’s +25% for the smaller players.
Subs for 3 (+24%) months and 6 months (+21%), again for players with limited free time and/or other hobbies.
Clown had a good point about not favoring multi-boxing too much for the sake of the game, but it looks like we’re going to get exactly that. Meanwhile new blood is pushed further away.
Can’t do much about it, but we can at least observe. Might as well enjoy the show from the sidelines.
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Going back and looking again at the pricing, I can’t help but notice the inherent disconnect in that 500 PLEX is now $25 while a one-month sub is $20. I get that PLEX is a liability from an accounting standpoint, but this feels like a bit of a slap in the face to players.
It has always cost more to Plex an account than to subscribe.
Can you explain what the “slap” to players is?
Why can’t people learn to save money and buy omega in bulk 
People find a lump sum price so much scarier than burning money month to month. If you’re here saying these prices are bad but sub month to month, come back to this comment in a year since you will likely be subbed, and you just threw away so much money over all those months.