This is a good move by CCP. Power purchase is a fallacy on digital goods as you experince the same cost delivering the product regardless of end user location. Ie supplying an active eve connection to Ethopia incurs the same cost as doing so to the US of A. So why should the African get the service cheaper? If they can’t make the service cost then dump them, they provide no value as a customer.
With tangible goods this of course is not the same and you should expect variance between regions.
Steam eve also had a lot of region hoppers using the various proxy steam price sites to find the best deal.
And saying that players that are paying less is complete nonsense, Blizzard localized WoW to Brazilian portuguese, dubbed the game in portuguese and has workers here in Brazil and yet the subscription for WoW is lesser than the one for Eve.
I’m gonna be using the same amount of the servers data when I go Alpha, the only difference is that CCP will not be receiving anything from me.
If everyone paid the same I wouldn’t be complaining, but there’s people from richer countries paying less than I am, so how come they send me a message saying that it’s important that everyone pays the same when the neighboring country that has a better economy is paying half of what I am paying???
Without that, we would have been even way farther than that. Our current Systems slows technological progress down.
Further we produce way to much and to unefficent.
Also 99% are working and are poor while 1% get’s richer without doing anything.
It’s like a body that became a victim to a parasite which is slowly killing it.
Not quite, you are forgetting the taxes . Taxes here in Brazil are absurd, some products like electronics, have Cascade taxes that combined can reach 70%. So it can reach much more than 58 BRL
Let’s do an experiment:
Remove one of players. Look at 30€/M you have in company wallet and try to say which player you removed (one from Europe, one from Russia or one from China?).
Impossible, isn’t it? 15€/M is 15€/M no matter where it came from.
Now you can say that you are talking about spending and not about paying. This makes sense but you should consider that people are different. Even in the same country you have very different wealth. So even for two players from China the same 15€/M is completely different values.
You will talk about average salaries. But you should understand that since EvE is not average entertainment then it would be wrong to expect EvE players be equally spread over population thus making averaged salaries bad approximation to purchasing power of actual and potential players.
Totally agree with you, being from South America that raise will be a hard hit, still wondering continue playing or not, cause alpha is meh , but 70% raise seems abusive to me
So it’s not just Brazil, they’ve also increased prices in some other countries. That sucks since fewer player means less content in the sandbox.
Hmmm. Now I’m debating if I should extend my sub another year while the prices are still low in my local currency. It would be a no brainier if I didn’t take long breaks every couple of months.
Welcome to equality plebs. You make the cut or not. Face facts CCP has monthly costs attributed to supplying your sub, it made no sense to run omega subs at a loss. CCP is operating at a below desired base line as evident of the redundancy off staff.
I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but everyone should probably pay a flat rate. Otherwise, you get certain groups of players who use VPN’s and other tech shenanigans to subscribe their multibox army for way less than they should be paying. EVE is also a game, not a physical need like food and water. Eat out less, run fewer characters, or increase what you earn in-game and PLEX. Even in the US, I have to budget for all my accounts every month, and I’m by no means poor.
True - unless large numbers of players from rich countries are buying cheaper subscriptions via other countries. In that case, this could be a simple change to increase revenue and profit.
And the real cause would be “EVE players who care only for themselves”.