Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Dear CCP,

Recently you've lured me back to the game with a cheesy cheap sales pitch offering me 10 days of free game time. I hadn't played for a while but I still love the game so here I am, with the ability to post on the forum and with 8 days play time to go.

I've played Eve for years, since may 2004 and I have always paid my monthly fee by credit card, a large portion of the time with 2 accounts and at one time even 3. Back in the days I had plenty of time to play and one could find me online almost always. The money was well worth it for me, right up to the point when I got children, a decent job and a lot less time.

Of course my Eve habit didn't stop at once, gradually I had less and less time and eventually I was logging on only once or twice per month but as I was always lagging behind the rest of the corp with my low log-on rate, I usually ended up chatting and spinning my ship for an hour before logging off again. In the end this made me decide that paying 18 euro subscription money per month was not justifiable anymore, as any sane person would.

In the time after that I bought 2 or 3 plex and tried that for a while but as I was still lagging behind my corp and not making enough isk at all to buy a new plex each month, that stopped soon too.

So there came the end of my eve career, the game that I had played for over 10 years and loved the most. The game I met so many great people in, made friends in who I went to fanfest with etc.
I actually felt kind of sad because I had to leave.
Eve can only be played by people with loads of time or loads of money (isk or €/$) they don't care about.


Then when I was thinking about all this, I came to the conclusion that over the years I had paid CCP well over 1500 euro, more than I ever paid for any game and it felt like that after paying so much money it should entitle me to play for free. Knowing that CCP would never give me a free pass as there's probably plenty people who paid the same or even more money and CCP wouldn't want to blow up the dam, I came up with the following idea.


Let people log on for free, chat, blow up stuff, spend isk etc. but skills train at a very low rate, say 1/10th of normal speed.
This gives people the opportunity to make isk for a plex over a longer period of time. With that plex activated their training speed will be normal.
This would increase the server population a lot I think and CCP would have plex income they would otherwise not have.

I for one, and I know for a fact that many other ex-eve players would too, would log on and start to play again if that money border would not be there.

My plead for a solution like this is probably in vain but please discuss this anyway.

imho CCP needs to re-think their income strategy

Kind regards,

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No joke, but in your example you will have paid CCP $300, or almost 2 years of subscription equiv.
You think you will last 2 years with your 20 mil sp char?

In those 2 years you will have made enough isk to buy yourself more plex for which someone else paid $

thats not how subscription agreements work. You want a service, you pay for it.

If you're leaving, can I have all your ISK and stuff? I'll put it to good use, I promise!

No...not April 1st.

BSGO is thataway --->

A pretty bad idea, tbh.

If anything, CCP could consider lowering sub costs for everyone, if they thought the current price isn't the best 'sweetspot' balancing # of subs vs. unit revenue.

F2P inevitably and automatically entails some form of P2W for the paying dudes, and nobody wants that in a sandbox game.

I'm not too keen on playing the playing for free thing; however, access to the forums under my avatar would be a nice thing.

Why do I need an active account to log in to the forums?

--Gadget

Thread closed (/rant). If you'd like to speak with CCP directly, I'd recommend you file a petition. Please adhere to the forum rules. Thanks.