# Five Days of Free Omega **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [April 12, 2025, 11:25pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/five-days-of-free-omega/482963 "2025-04-12T23:25:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Srima\_Darkstar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/srima_darkstar/32/374461_2.png) [@Srima\_Darkstar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Srima_Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 11:25pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/five-days-of-free-omega/482963/1 "2025-04-12T23:25:50Z")
I never turn down a free gift. I put this on my account after I set one of my +5 million SP alphas to train for more than 10 days. However I seriously believe they should just stop handing out free omega so often, perhaps not at all. I hear those boos and hisses already, but to misquote Shakespeare, Read on Macduff! Five days is suppose to show omega off to the new players, so they will buy it monthly. The common alpha player has little clue, other than to buy a locked ship, they are not even skilled to fly. If CCP can afford to offer 5 days ever few months, why not consolidate these freebies in one full month of omega annually. Then give the omega players an additional month added to their subscription. Currently this 5 day of omega free has no value to the new alphas or the omega veterans. I can tell you who it does hold value with, those who buy skill extractors to drain alpha armies. You should be ashamed of yourself. Not that one month free would stop that lot. CCP will never sell some of us on omega subscriptions. In my opinion, if they want sales, they need to either remove the free omega offers, or make them count for all the players. i don’t know if they add 5 days to an omega account or not, but when you are paid up for a full year 5 days can’t look like more than a basic drop. Oh! Look here, I got scrap metal! ---
**Author:** ![Geo\_Eclipse\_Oksaras](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/geo_eclipse_oksaras/32/500781_2.png) [@Geo\_Eclipse\_Oksaras](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Geo_Eclipse_Oksaras)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/five-days-of-free-omega/482963/2 "2025-04-12T23:41:46Z")
> [@Srima\_Darkstar](#): > > don’t know if they add 5 days to an omega account or not, They do ---
**Author:** ![Arthur\_Aihaken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/arthur_aihaken/32/504104_2.png) [@Arthur\_Aihaken](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Arthur_Aihaken)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/five-days-of-free-omega/482963/3 "2025-04-12T23:59:54Z")
5 free days - I’ll take it. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Mister](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lady_mister/32/448124_2.png) [@Lady\_Mister](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lady_Mister)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/five-days-of-free-omega/482963/4 "2025-04-13T00:02:02Z")
You are right, you don’t need those 5 days, Just give them to me so you don’t have to worry about them. ---
**Author:** ![Malak\_Starfire](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/malak_starfire/32/501915_2.png) [@Malak\_Starfire](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Malak_Starfire)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/five-days-of-free-omega/482963/5 "2025-04-13T00:06:44Z")
You’re right, they should not give out free omega often. But this is for the anniversary of the game, it’s the best time to give it out imo. Birthdays and the Holidays are the times for gifts, seems fitting for me. ---
**Author:** ![Gealbhan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gealbhan/32/452651_2.png) [@Gealbhan](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gealbhan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/five-days-of-free-omega/482963/6 "2025-04-13T01:30:28Z")
Just take the 5, say thank you and move on. They didn’t _have_ to give us anything. Idk. ---
**Author:** ![QuakeGod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/quakegod/32/480339_2.png) [@QuakeGod](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/QuakeGod)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/five-days-of-free-omega/482963/7 "2025-04-13T02:27:06Z")
A month of free, unlimited number of Omega accounts used as gank fleets. Because that is exactly what would happen… ---
**Author:** ![Srima\_Darkstar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/srima_darkstar/32/374461_2.png) [@Srima\_Darkstar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Srima_Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/five-days-of-free-omega/482963/8 "2025-04-13T11:28:03Z")
> [@Srima\_Darkstar](#): > > If CCP can afford to offer 5 days ever few months, why not consolidate these freebies in one full month of omega annually. Then give the omega players an additional month added to their subscription. You obviously didn’t read or misread the above statement; “If CCP can afford to offer 5 days ever few months, why not consolidate these freebies in one full month of omega annually. Then **give the omega players** an additional month added to their subscription.” So how does this translate in any language into give everyone free omega? Because obviously, I could care less about the free candy bar. It seems to me, they recently handed out free omega a few months ago? If you keep giving away samples of what you are attempting to sell, it is little wonder why you don’t get that many new customers. There is a saying I once heard, “Something given freely has no value.”. That is something to ponder. > [@Gealbhan](#): > > Just take the 5, say thank you and move on. They didn’t _have_ to give us anything. > Idk. All too true. In fact, I have seen how big giveaways can backfire. One year an online game gave out a lot of cool stuff, the next year not as much. The forums for that game lit up with spite for getting anything at all. I never look a gift horse in the mouth, but I might inform them when the gift is too frequent. ---
**Author:** ![Kezrai\_Charzai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kezrai_charzai/32/394578_2.png) [@Kezrai\_Charzai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kezrai_Charzai)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 11:39am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/five-days-of-free-omega/482963/9 "2025-04-13T11:39:17Z")
> [@Srima\_Darkstar](#): > > It seems to me, they recently handed out free omega a few months ago? I haven’t been tracking it, but I’m pretty sure the last one was in November, just prior to the Yuletide stuff. And then one on the anniversary event. Which is pretty much the pattern for the previous 2 years iirc. I don’t think a couple brief tastes of Omega twice a year constitutes some serious “giveaway of what they’re attempting to sell”. As far as I can tell it’s fairly similar to what many F2P games do, both to entice regular F2Ps and to bring previous ‘paid’ accounts back for a reminder of what they enjoyed about EVE. I expect that reminding players who’ve lapsed a sub what they’re missing is even more important than enticing new players. Your most likely customers are people who’ve bought from you before, after all. As for what it does for CCP’s income, I can virtually guarantee that adding 5 days to paying players Omega time won’t impact their income, but if they gave away a full month it just means a ton of people would buy one less month Omega per year. ---
**Author:** ![QuakeGod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/quakegod/32/480339_2.png) [@QuakeGod](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/QuakeGod)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/five-days-of-free-omega/482963/10 "2025-04-13T15:44:28Z")
Personally, I’m going to use it to run the SOE Arc 15 times and share all the faction standings with my main mission runner… ---
**Author:** ![Geo\_Eclipse\_Oksaras](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/geo_eclipse_oksaras/32/500781_2.png) [@Geo\_Eclipse\_Oksaras](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Geo_Eclipse_Oksaras)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/five-days-of-free-omega/482963/11 "2025-04-13T16:17:36Z")
fyi, only the last mission shares the standings ---
**Author:** ![QuakeGod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/quakegod/32/480339_2.png) [@QuakeGod](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/QuakeGod)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/five-days-of-free-omega/482963/12 "2025-04-13T16:30:54Z")
I know, but you also get the standings from all the other corps in the mission chain. SOE, O.R.E, and several others… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/five-days-of-free-omega/482963/14 "2025-07-12T17:42:17Z")
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