Hilmar the greedy miner? Did they send you isk?
Also note that a basic rule of economics is cost-sharing. Yes, CCPâs main goal as a for-profit business is to pass as much in company cost as they can to consumers. Yes, things have gotten significantly more expensive in the last 15 years â heck, theyâve gotten significantly more expensive over the last TWO.
However, youâre dealing with a chronically angry paying player base that was given the option to simply swap to a âno costâ Alpha status, albeit one thatâs more riddled with microtransactions than even the Omega accounts are. Weâre in a pay-to-play environment where freemium content populates everyoneâs gameplay experience, because the company needed to somehow make money.
Lacking in this equation is the shift in player value significantly from subbed to unsubbed accounts. That is, Alpha players got a progressively better hand in a free-to-play model, all while Omega players got handed travesties like Scarcity, the casino known as HyperNet, and so on. In short, paying players are still left questioning whether the $160+ a year is worth it when we get a similar experience at the low-end playing as Alpha now, thanks to EVEâs failed multi-million dollar gamble on side projects like DUST and Valkyrie.
As for inflationary costs in utility bills, that doesnât compare at all. Theyâre necessary services that we canât well afford to randomly turn off. EVE is a service, not a utility. Thereâs a lot more choice here to ditch it and move to a premium subscription on a different game, and now almost universally for less money.
I donât blame CCP for wanting to make money, or even make up for costs dropped on subsidized accounts. The way theyâre going about it, however, is a disappointment and the general failure to justify the significantly higher cost is why I unsubbed.
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Good post. A few brain cells actually in use.
Eve cannot, by definition, be free to play for everyone. Someone has to be paying somethingâŚand thatâs largely mugs like me who do buy PLEX.
Youâre welcome.
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They also did not have a cash shop back then. They are constantly adding more monetization vectors to the game. In that light, I donât think itâs justified.
Companies can typically buy from any provider on the grid and negociate prices, residential cannot as easily. This may vary per country and situation but that can happen.
If theyâre renting rack space, theyâre probably tied to the owners choice.
Finally, some common sense. Hard to hear it from all the crying.
Your effort put into that graph is like 20000000000005 quality
over 7 MILLION hits for that search term
Yeah, itâs that bad that one always has to âadjustâ
Yah, despite the whole WW3 thing Iâm sure. This is the worst time to raise prices; very few have disposable money and they donât care.
Price rises is a consequence of inflation of monetary supply. The people that donât care are the people you have as rulers/leaders and the ones doing fiscial policy.
Those closest to the king benefit the most, the Cantillion Effect. Youâre very far from the king so you benefit the least.
Helicopter money isnât free, as youâve noticed I am sure.
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You are quite right, but that doesnât mean prices for CCP arenât going up. Of course, we donât really know by how much seeing the books arenât public (as far as I know) - so we can only make conjecture 
Thatâs a horrible excuse. Devs can work from home and it happens all the time that a group of devs collaborate via internet when theyâre hundreds or thousands of miles apart.
COVID has been the excuse for many things not going through yet when I use it as an excuse it doesnât work. How bizarre.
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