But you weren’t complaining year after year when your game play got cheaper as inflation made the sub cost less relativly speaking.
Perfect case in point. You didn’t complain when it benefitted you but as soon as they charge a price closer to the 2003 original, you lose it.
Your choice is play, or don’t. Nothing wrong with not playing a video game.
Yep. This is an older player base and as people age, they dislike change more and more.
i’m going to wait to see what this “new content” consists of before plonking down any $$$.
a 30% rise in one hit is HUGE. maybe breaking it down over a few years rather than slug your dwindling player base that hard that fast would be a better business decision.
I never said or suggested anything of the sort. How much DEVs or CCP is making is irrelevant. They set the price, YOU decide if you want to pay it or not. I have decided I do for now.
CCP/Pearl Abyss is a business, not a charity.
HEY! I represent that remark!
I’m so old I actually knew what I was looking at when I first saw a Thrasher.
No one has any issue with paying something but a random out of the blue utter horse crap reason like inflation as though its something new is a cop out and everyone knows it apart from those defending it.
Pay has been stagnant for years in some sectors, and the general cost of living has been getting higher and higher without any wage rises to go with it. That’s been going on for decades…lets stop pretending its new…its not.
The 3rd word in your post was “shills”. Maybe take a bit of your own advice.
I’m hitting 50 this year so…
…I’ll finish that sentence after my nap.
better to spend that lil bit of disposable income elsewhere, like say a game that values your money, time, and regularly updates and reinvests that sub into improving the game. Seriously can not stress this enough EVERYONE needs to unsub indefinitely to drive the point home that we will not stand for this. When you accept price hikes like these it sets a dangerous precedent for the rest of the industry to follow.
Awesome idea! Does that work at the grocery store and gas station too? Groovy!
Do not worry tho, eve is a niche, nothing risky for other games 
Games have generally become cheaper over the past two decades, accounting for inflation. This is true for other things as well, like computers and internet service. Other subscription-based games have also retained their pricing levels during this period.
This was offset in large part by gaming going “mainstream” over the same period, creating a much larger customer base for gaming companies to feed upon. CCP wasn’t eating inflation losses as much as they were failing to capitalize on a larger pool of potential players.
How can you justify the price increase when it offers nothing in return and the rest of the industry are trending in the opposite direction and giving the player a better product in the process?
unsubbing 2 of my 3 accounts, my paycheck didnt get a 30% increase to go along with all this inflation.
Me too… Funny thing, This clown doesn’t realize it is this fact that makes us able to have many account and we have probably sustained this game for far longer than it would have been otherwise. I actually like the fact kids do not like the game, well most of them it seems.
Dadgummit. Stop making good points.
One of the best here…
lol right? They act like the consumer is not dealing with inflation as well.
Ok the last 3 years for most gamers you had sometimes to spend a little cash on plex - If you have a Job and little Life a Girl - Boy - Dog - Cat - is hard that you have to play over 10 hours a day to make LOW isk ( NERF NERF NERF ) IF you very very very slow work your self up over years to have a cap and grow to super and finaly a TITAN there will bee no MORE time to sleep no more !!! And if super tired all the time THAT kill the game fun - This is a game that you need minimum 2 account - Cyno - Scout to not loose your ship in 1 day that you work 2 months for - so not FUN gaming for long - The best in eve is 3 account gaming normal and not 18 hours a day - You think that south EU a month salary or America - Asia - Arab - Africa - 2 to 3 month salary you spend on Game a year ?? lol - You must be level 100 incompetent leaders in CCP - 30+ % up in a multibox game - I Am 50 years old - gamer since Atari and then comodore 64 with tape cassete and screwdriver to load a game way before internet - I do not only play eve ( since 2009 ) - And that have a cost to ? And now me lucky making ok money i have to spend over 1000 dollars a year to play a game that was raped in nerf the last 3 years . lol - The price of the game is then 1 to 3 months salary in most countries - I pay you the 20 dollars if you make the 3 alts in log in so i can play all 3 at same time - good deal - But pay 3 accounts 20 dollars is Game Over for me now !!! For you much sooner then you imagine CCP !!!
