I should have elaborated in my post but they were 2 RL friends. I helped guide them in EVE the best I could as a CEO. The guy bought a RNI and got high end modules. He died to a suspect baiter loki during a mission. I SPECIFICALLY told him to watch out for suspect baiters since he was operating in Amarr and had at least 1bil+ His reasoning for spending all the $$$ was to have fun. He wanted to get ahead of everyone with $$$ He had little to no basic experience in EVE yet billions in ships+modules. We eventually parted ways this was around 2018-2019. They eventually quit.
With no data to go by since CCP wont share.
Maybe these are the kinda players CCP wants. Play/pay for a while and leave. But the numbers donât seem to replace players fast enough. But then again low numbers might not be bad for CCP if enough players dump $$$ into plex as in that example.
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Well, I got ganked by CCP , ended up over 2 billion in debt.
Only if you promise to feed it every 24 hours.
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server population from mmo server population com
05/22 - population 260111
07/22 - population 175331
looks like they found a solution to server lag⌠Those population numbers on the graphs looks like they found a shovel and started digging. It is very funny to watch after the fall out after such foolish business practices. Keep on digging you will get to 0 before you know it.
I said in my post the successful ftp games out there make money on cosmetics, not a subscription. If Eve wants to go the subscription route it should be only needed to say fly ships above a cruiser, and include convenience things like faster skill training, starting a corp, maybe a small mining boost, stats/leaderboard page something like zkillboard etc. It should NOT include a combat bonus considering new players want to try pvp out in a frigate/destroyer. And it should be a low price like $5âŚto tempt more people into subbingâŚ$20 is ******* crazyâŚwatch their sub counts continue to plummet.
Thatâs sad they encourage this instead of banning them.
This is nothing new.
EVE is not a free to play game itâs freemium.
What is current state of highsec ganking? - #28 by Vokan_Narkar @Vokan_Narkar
This person has excellent reasons why EVE is freeinum not free to play. Alpha is just a demo that has an unlimited time. To experience EVE at its fullest protentional you need to go omega. These servers cost serious monthly/yearly rental and upkeep fees to maintain the whole reason EVE is a subscription game and not a onetime buy is because of the server costs. Selling skins and microtransactions is unstable and can vary.
While this sounds great on paper when you actually get into the numbers, they would lose âa tonâ of money if CCP just dropped subscription costs down to 5$ I like many people have their objections to this price increase. We have botched releases, bugged events it goes on and on and I get why people are angry I try to bring some realism to this and looking at this through a business point of view. I am just a simple business undergrad, but I can see the issue CCP is really in. EVE is ageing there are smaller startup games that are eying the single server space MMO genre as technology advances and servers get better there will be more games based on this. Will CCP adapt to keep up? I am not sure myself.
Doesnât take a degree to know that there are serious issues that we all can see from CCP.
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Which is why I shudder to think of EVE with ads.
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This would have worked much better as something like what Second Life has recently tried (again? Love Second Life? Get more with Premium and all-new Premium Plus đ)
Then some extra revenue might have come in, rather than a possible crash.
A subscription is fine.
The highest sub on the market while also offering pay2win mechanics and cosmetics on top with very lil content and love given for the game, that is what makes people quit.
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Prefer the subscription model personally, provided Iâm getting regular content updates for my money⌠Unfortunately CCP has been removing content recently (scarcity, indy changes, BRM/ESS etc).
All stick no carrot combined with increasing the sub price has not been a good combination!!
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its called the rantanplan effect.
Been away for a little over 10 months. Was looking at coming back with my 9 accounts, but after seeing this I shall take my money elsewhere.
$29.50 au/month, thatâs $265.50 au/month up from $22au/month ($198 au/month) which is rather steep.
Youâre already having huge issues keeping your player base, without a price increase.
If your answer to a dwindling cash flow is to raise prices as compensation due to a dwindling player base, you are severely misguided.
Sadly, this game has just turned into a huge cash sink.
You need to cease with the cosmetic garbage that has no bearing on gameplay, and focus on actual gameplay. People will be more inclined to spend the $$ then.
Good luck for the future.
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that is why we have the biggest update eve have ever seen .Just try the new content and enjoy rats on gate scarcity dbs ess vargurs online industry and empty space.And all that for only 29.99 $ per month i think u are been malcontent
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I quite like the increase. It has made me fitter as now go out for a ride on my bicycle instead of playing EVE.
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Its been awhile since ive posted on the forums, but i might stick to witness the death spiral in real time. CCP saved me money though, i was about to resub until i heard about this.
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Well i have moved on and now play No Manâs SkyâŚ
Canât see me coming backâŚ
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