Couch potato, you now have no excuses for not going out and getting fit.
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Itās still cheap. Iām happy to pay if CCP is happy to raise it.
I hope this is sarcasm.
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Hmm CCP isnāt budging, maybe the statement is no poors? lol
If you got money to burn, send me a cheque.
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Yeah, exactly, āshare the loveā(ā¬money$), right?
All donations will be given to a good cause - ME
The gaming industry in general is going to get regulated soon. They wild west canāt continue the way it is. No one says you canāt profit but exploiting peoples addictions always attracts regulators.
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More or less ārealā than the 50 other times?
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History is rightā¦
Billionaires have proved it.
Lower prices mean more sales, higher prices equal less sales and higher losses over the long term.
Warren Buffett.
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Late August impact. I introduced someone to the game. They cited the price only as the reason not to stick with it and sub 
. Worse, āwhy play as an alpha if im never going to go Omegaā
I think $20/mo is just untenable for something thats only valuable when its well populated. Especially since the game is really experienced at a premium level with 2+ accounts. Playing with one feels like āAlpha+ā, not a premium experience.
Luxury good pricing works because it tied to status through exclusivity. Obviously that wont work here, Eve is like facebook or whatsapp - valuable only with a large community of users, but if nobody is there its worthless.
Furthermore, the scale of the community is an asset in itself. Release a PC shooter to 100k people who are excited and engaged with the Eve IP, and youve got 100k people who try it on launch day.
Iād love to hear CCP talk a little bit about what theyāre thinking with this pricing strategy - from the outside it looks like you guys have lost your grasp of the unique aspects of the product category.
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I would suspect the price is partly increase for the loss of the russian playerbase as well as the needs of Pearl Abyss to compensate their purchase expenseā¦
Unfortunately this has hit the game in a state where also a lot of rage quitting is going on because of general discontent with recent modifications of the game and a missing outlook of new contentā¦
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Didnāt rage quit , just reconned that with the price increases, a good time to move on when my subs were due, burned out having played since 2005. If I return will be just 1 account which I cant see happening as no idea what 1 account could do without scouts/ support alts.
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I do everything on a single account. Alts are too much of a hassle for me.
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So let me get this straight. You Devs at CCP thought it would be okay to just hike my sub up to 20.00 USD per month and you didnāt even consider the excise fees that we here in the United States have to pay just to pay for this game which many have left that I know over the years. I started back in 09 and even bought several years worth of Omega time during my college years. Sorry, but Iām going to bow out and tell everyone in my alliance to do likewise because love the game or not. I can purchase games that I own for the same price that arenāt as old as this game. Maybe you all should have considered this before making such a stupid move, but then again, Iāve learned over the years thatās pretty much all this company does is make dumb decisions.
Ok, but since you get isk for playing the game, and can use the isk to buy subs - isnāt the price of the sub substantially less than 20.00 per month?
Do you people even play EvE?
You wot m8
Was wondering what he was talking about, myself. We donāt got none of that ridiculous VAT crap in the U.S.
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I thought you paid that on the state level?
Like when something is advertised as $9.00 (plus tax)
Either way VAT doesnt apply to subs that Im aware. Even if it does, excise is a fee on imports/exports of physical material iirc.
So VAT is just a Federal tax? Always thought it was an additional tax on top of regular taxes. Learn something new and all that. State/local taxes are on a per state basis here. For example, Florida has no state or local tax, Nevada has no state tax, California has all the tax and thinks of new ones almost daily, etc.
Nothing physical about any EvE sub, so still donāt know what heās talking about. And thereās no tax/fees of any kind added to subs for any online game here. Hell, we donāt even pay tax or fees on Steam purchases. lol