Really? Me, I prefer to read a good book instead, my favourite being “The Art of Military Strategy & Ganking” by Aiko Danuja.
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Considering since the date of the price hike news, the PCU has been falling consistently week after week. At this rate we are looking at scary numbers for the remainder of 2022.
Is it time now to say this the price increase from $15US to $20US is unsustainable and a different model is required to be tested?
For me, Eve is a multi-character game and has been for over a decade. I love the industry side and i also love pvp and geo politics. To be frank, industry is dead right now, and i believe the $20US (or $15US for alts) is to blame.
Is it time?
There iss already a thread to Discuss this, I will merge this one into [Discussion] PLEX and Omega price changes feedback thread - #4313 by Anthony_FatTony_Amico
Im in Australia. Perhaps this table will explain the situation best:
So by that measure, in order to get you to resub they would need lo lower the sub below what it was before the hike?
Indeed! Watch the PCU flood with that pricing schedule. End result… much better bottom line.
Considering CCP revenue is zero right now in my case, seems like a fair deal to me. My point is that Eve is designed to be played with multiple alts concurrently. Pricing should match this. marketing should take advantage of Eve’s uniqueness in that regards.
All the extra work being done to make the game relevant to new players with graphics and ARC etc with FW to come down the line is great, however it means nothing if they don’t pay for Omega. Fairly obvious the new players aren’t upgrading to Omega…
IMO the main issue with new player retention is the skills system and then new sub price just drove it into the ground. Options for new players to bridge the gap are limited to patience or credit card. New players aren’t that patient anymore with many other options in the market.
With it more cost effective for individuals to run more Alt accounts, the economy will be stronger, and therefore a healthier Eve.
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Yeah Id like to pay whatever I want too.
Ill try that down the supermarket with a loaf of bread. Unless they give it to me for 5p, Ill take my 5p elsewhere. That’ll teach em
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I don’t take my 5p elsewhere, instead of buying the loaf, I just buy flour and levening and make it myself…
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Would you make your own MMO?
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Not for 5p you dont
Well, it’s mostly a question of pain.
When you are hungry NOW you have pain, and will pay any price.
If there are 20 bakeries in the street, the bakerman suffers as long you spend your 5p somewhere else.
But EvE ist not essential like bread or energy.
If the gain (of fun) is lower then the pain (of cost) I will not waste my bucks.
You miss the point.
You cannot get bread for 5p no matter what you do
Customers do not get to set the price of anything.
If you thought they cared that you arent spending, then you neglect that they already calculated that in when then put the price up.
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Some people suggest they NEED EVE to survive. EVE is an entertainment product. That’s the bottom line. First things that go when times get hard are subscriptions. Don’t like the price? Whole bunch of cheaper games out there. I personally am not a fan of a subscription model. I’d rather buy lifetime omega for a set price if I had the option.
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EVE is not a game, real life is. When your shiny ship goes POOF , you feel the pain.
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Not followed what you were replying to so I might be taking you out of context here, but individually consumers do not dictate the price, however collectively that’s precisely how free market economics works. If someone is selling bread for 80p and you increase your price from 80p to 90p, you’d better be confident you add value elsewhere.
We know that other triple AAA titles are priced as follows here in the UK:
- WoW is £9.99/month
- Albion Online is £9.81/month
- FFXIV is £7.69/month
Does Eve provide that much more compelling content than the above to justify stepping out alone to a premium price point? It backfired for Netflix.
Whatever big patch is coming in August is going to be make or break for this game I suspect. Let’s hope CCP get it right, however knowing the focus is FW and story arcs (yuck) I don’t hold out much hope!
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Do they have to be your own? Asking for a friend.
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Like a fair democracy or a legitimate soviet…
No, you missed the point.
Bread is something essential, I need it to survive.
So I pay the price, what ever it is.
EvE is a game, not essential.
So, if I think it’s not worth the buck, I will not spend it.
So you must compare EvE with other games (not bread) to find out if it’s (to) expensive or not.
nuff said