Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I am struggling to find time for eve, maybe 2-3 hours a couple of times a week is what I can manage. This means that a subscription model doesn't work so good for me.

So I started to wish that there was a model, where you could purchase day passes up front and then activate them when you logged in.

If I could buy 10 day passes at one time for 10 euros, it would work better for me than a subscription based model. The day pass could be as little as 3 or 6 hours, I would accept that.
At the moment I buy one month now and then. In total I would use a bit more on eve with the day pass alternative than the subscription based one.

Skill points would only be trainable during the active time.

There should be made some calculations on this, as I don't want a system that reduce the total income of ccp.

I'm sorry. If $15 USD a month is too much for you, you may want to rethink your employment situation and get a job that pays money, OR get some sort of education so you can qualify for such a job. If you're here claiming $15 USD a month is a lot of money, please remember this is the 21st Century and that's chicken feed...or go ahead and graduate from public school, go to college, and when you no longer are playing on your parent's dime, and computer...you can reassess for yourself what "a lot of money" really is.

Most people spend ten times that amount for a good Friday night....four Friday nights a month.

I might also add, over the past ten or more years while everyone else in the world has already almost doubled their prices for the same product, CCP has kept their price the same. Due to the ravages of inflation over that period of time which CCP can't avoid, it must sting a little bit to be THAT loyal to its customers. Pay the sub, and feel lucky about it....

Trust me, you are better off on a monthly subscription.
If you have limited play time the last thing you really want is to not be skilling between sessions.
If your skill queue ticks away for a month between your play sessions, you'll make lots of skill progress, and see lots of 'skill completed' each time you log in.

True, they do have kept prices at the same level for a long while.

Good points too with that it would cause difficulties with orders, contracts and similar. And missing out on a lot of skill points.

So maybe a month now and then is still the best solution.

To address some detractors - a more inclusive model like freemium wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing for the game

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$15 a month might seem expensive when you get less than 15 hours of gameplay a month, which allegedly the case here.

I've spent $60 on 10 hour games. these days I've mostly just stopped buying games, although a steam sale catches me every now and then.

EVE is the go to game if you dont have a huge amount of time to actually play. In other mmo's you only progress when playing/grinding, with EVE you can log off and still progress as your training queue will run whether you're playing the game or not. If isk is a problem, I would suggest you join a corp with a ship replacement program and/or buyback program if you mine a lot.

15 hours gameplay for $15, i can complete call of duty in like 5-6 hours and that costs $60

Yeah exactly, i couldnt even buy a pint and a pack of cigs for the price of a monthly sub, get far more entertainment from the sub than a pint

Well games like COD also comes with unlimited multi player if you are into that. The shelf price of a game is for the total package after all, not just the part you want to take out of it...