I hope you kept some ISK for yourself as I recall you donated your stuff to me, Mike and probably others as well before leaving. Though if you need some free ships or whatever let me know I have plenty of stuff laying around unused, could even give you one of my Gilas as I have a bunch of them and only really use a couple of them.
Personally, I think there’s a balance to be found, and that’s why the argument that “EVE subs cost less than $15 per month” can potentially become true.
If you’re playing as Omega for 3 months using real money, then use some of the ISK you earn from being Omega to pay for a 4th month, you’ve effectively paid $15 per month instead of $20 per month. Depending where you slide that balance point, the weight of in-game profit can be more or less in your favour in different situations. If you’re waiting through 11 months before having enough “spare” ISK to pay for a sub, then it’s much closer to $20 and if you’re paying for a sub with ISK every second month (or more often than with real money) it shifts to (or below) $10 per month.
The list price, however is still a “first point of contact” for most potential paying players, and while it looks out of line with competing products (it does), there’s valid reason for concern that it’s costing more in sales numbers than it’s earning in extra revenue from those willing to pay. If you’re getting 33% more money per paying customer, but losing 50% of paying customers by doing so, the numbers don’t come out in your favour. If you only lose 10% then the profit tipped in your favour slightly. It depends on numbers which CCP aren’t sharing.
i still say it was stupid to raise the fee. while ff14 is still at 10,99€ but ok you cant compare that 2 games… completely different… the one you can enjoy a lot even without any other player… the other one needs (imo) a lot of player… the more the better…
i mean… i loved eve a few years ago. prices was like less than 100€ per year (1-2 times a year special offer), so i did even pay when i wasnt playing for a few months.
When i did play active there where always like 40-50 k online… lots of wars , lots of pvp going on always and nearly everywhere all around the clock… same for pve, mining etc. it felt healthy.
now often… you fly through 20 wormholes and nothing… you fly 2 hours through ns on your hunt… nothing - besides some times 1-3 ishtar bots which are instantly docking the second you enter the system and the defense fleet sitting in their stageing.
so… often eve just feels empty if its not at the hotspots.
so i would think a more fair price… like 10€ per month instead of makeing bank out of the few poor souls who cant leave their addiction would lead to more player = more content and entertainment for everyone…
instead of an hard overpriced old game with maybe 5k real Player with each 3+ alts which are needed to keep at least the look of at least low-average player numbers and to do solo thinks you cant do without a group and became your own group… yeah fun.
and 5k multiboxing player are different pvp pray than 20 k individual players