Wut? This is completely voluntary and it is a way for CCP to increase its revenues. Donāt like skins, donāt buy them. But for those who do like them this a great way for CCP to maintain/increase profitability. If anything they should be expanding this. Someone suggested structure skinsā¦sure. Why not let alliances design and submit skins (corporations and even coalitions). So long as they are merely cosmetic and they generate profits why care?
At the time of me writing this:
19.99 USD is 18,45 Euros or 2576,91 Islandinc Krona or 15,57 British Pound Sterling.
23 Apr, 07:34 UTC
When I first read that CCP had been purchased by Pearl Abyss, it occurred to me that now, no matter what we are told, the shots can be called by the parent company. Technically that means EVERYTHING, creative content, game pricing, you name it - is ultimately at risk. Does Pearl Abyss care? Iām thinking they want one thing and one thing only. What do you think?
x2 omega subs cancelledā¦ GG CCP
What happened to that funny video parody of the marketing of Eve online? The one saying itās basically milking people with images of cows etc. was right in the first 100 or so posts. Was a YouTube video and it stopped and vanished as I was watching it. Guess CCP donāt like the truth.
Anyone have a link to it? I canāt find it on YouTube either
Yuukā¦ we shouldnāt go there. This forum is PG15
Itās traditional to add more content and then increase the price. You have this backwards as always CCP (pearl abyss). Youāve steadily reduced content for years, replacing it with meaningless instanced fakery.
late april fools joke
TL:DR : Price is too steep, which ultimately boils down to less people, so less content, which brings less people
I do not usualy engage with forum stuff but this is one of the more stupid ways you can piss off your playerbase or what is left of it. 33% increase is a lot, 15 euros was already a steep price but at 20 euros it makes me want to think and not pay anymore, you will have more alpha characters which will try to plex with ISK, which will drive up the plex prices and eventually people will be playing to pay for PLEX for another month and they will burn out and wont return. With the player numbers already being what they are this was not a good way to monetize your remaining playerbase. There is a massive market for skins, make unique skins similar to what LOL or POE is doing (skins that actually change how the ship looks, like make the Tengu look like a biological ship, Chrome plated Minmatar ships for the lols). Then you can think how you can increase player satisfaction, this will directly not give you more money but in the long term you will still have a playerbase who will support you, and if people like the game people reccomend it and that brings in more money. This is an MMO, the players are the content, the less players, less content, less content less people to shoot, to build things and everything. Keeping the playerbase happy is your lifeblood.
This is not directed at the forum moderators who need to shift through this ā¦ or you know just ignore everything. This is for the managment of CCP. Think why EVE has survived all these years, think back what made EVE popular in the golden days and try to emulate that with a twist. Thats how you bring in fat stacks of cash. Make a game that people actually want to pay for, because at 20 Euros per month. That can give you a new Indie game to play each month, or multiple months of another MMO. Do not follow the Ferengi school of thought (aka do not chase short term quarterly gains)
Publish your full financial data and predictions that justify this. No half bakes. The full data for everything so we can all see it.
I will be cutting accounts. I recommend everyone sets a hard spending limit on EVE let CCP take the hit to total subscriptions itās that simpleā¦
Still no prices in GBP and Euroā¦
Maybe it is just US they have put it up for as UK and EU have already had it put up twice?
Guess all other currencies will be USD:1 so we non USD people are paying even moreā¦
Just found this
ā One current member of the Council of Stellar Management, a player advocacy group āelected by the players to advise and assist CCP in the continuous development of EVE Online,ā said the group pushed back against the idea when it was informed a few weeks ago, to no avail. āIt was made clear that this was happening no matter how hard we fought it,ā redditor [deltaxi65]
This was on PCGamer.
I wonder if it will still happen if the pushback from players is them cancelling their accounts? Enough to negate your price hikes. What ya gonna do then? Start rattling a can outside your offices?
This is blatant money grabbing for the shareholders, nothing more. The game will be driven into the ground and vanish into thin air with no fanfare. This is a sad day for what was a groundbreaking and genuinely fantastic game.
Fortnite does more with no sub at all, just cosmetic cashshopā¦
So uhhhā¦ At this rate, how much of Eve do you think youāre gonna have left by fanfest? Nerfing players out of the game by nuking structures, charging the entire playerbase more for the pleasure of being abused by you endlessly, and all on the promise that āoh, good things are coming, we really mean it this time, guys.ā
Just wanna know how many devs have started job hunting after this glorious threadnaught dropped on a Friday evening when youāre all about to leave the office so you can pretend it doesnāt exist and leave the ISD to hold the bag against YEARS of pent up playerbase anger.
GFG.
such a shame. I was just getting back into the game.
when was that?
Me tooā¦ At least I only play one accountā¦
But I do wonder what is really going on hereā¦ As Gordon Ramsey once saidā¦:
Who raise the Prices??/
ā Meā¦
Youāve got a big issueā¦ its just a way of driving more customers away from the businessā¦