# How to get more people to play eve online? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [October 29, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-to-get-more-people-to-play-eve-online/198343 "2019-10-29T20:50:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 129
**Author:** ![Jonah\_Gravenstein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/jonah_gravenstein/32/386819_2.png) [@Jonah\_Gravenstein](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Jonah_Gravenstein)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 11:02am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-to-get-more-people-to-play-eve-online/198343/129 "2019-11-07T11:02:08Z")
> [@Bloody\_Larry](#): > > And then you buy your first Rattler. > > £15 in real money, as you bought some shinies. All my ships are purchased via isk earned through playing the game, I consider ships to be tools that will eventually break; and I never fly anything I can’t afford to replace at least 5 times over. > Well, in June only 4% of newbs lasted past 3 months. It’s actually 2.5% at the 90 day mark, the 4% figure is for 30 days; both of which are still a better retention rate than many of Eve’s competitors, especially in the F2P/freemium segment of the market which is the one that Eve occupies. I did a [long-assed post](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/triglavian-ganking/183352/395) on exactly that a few days ago in another thread. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-to-get-more-people-to-play-eve-online/198343)._