Alpha clones were launched with one of the reasons for deploying them being that CCP doesnât like the idea of shorter subscription windows than 30 days due to the massive amount of potential abuse that would make possible. It would be a herculean undertaking to rebalance various components of EVE to not be abusable via short-term subscriptions. It isnât logical from a business perspective to try and jam that functionality in after-the-fact - there are too many moving parts to be juggled into sanity, at the cost of suspending all other development while it is sorted out. CCP would lose legions of players if they stopped updating for a year to overhaul the codebase and mechanics, and would likely never recoup those losses through sale of short-term subscription offerings.
Tell me what you are smoking because I want some of that âŚ
You havenât understood anything thatâs has been discussed in here , on top of that you just distorted everything that I said and made a fantasy out of it to just suite your post and thoughts .
Youâve picked the wrong person to troll .
I think you would be surprised by how many people wouldnât bother joining, or sticking around, if CCP announced a halt to all maintenance (balance patches, tiericide, and bug fixes alike) and new content releases (long-term and limited duration events) to overhaul the entire system. Itâs painful enough to play through some of the balancing actions, like resource scarcity; knowing nothing will improve for at least a year would be a right gut kick to motivations to play. Plenty of folks will opt to drop their subs until the updates are ready to come out, and maybe they will remember to come back and sub again in 12 months - but most will move on to something else. Few people are willing to pay a sub for a game that is not releasing new content.
I donât think the ânew contentâ CCP is releasing is improving the game. Look at Pochven - they spent all of last year on that content. Did that improve the game?
I didnât say all new content is an improvement. I said people arenât likely to pay for a game receiving no improvements, which includes bug fixes and balance passes.