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A 150 hour subscription model?

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Soundwave Plays Diablo
Doomheim
#61 - 2012-08-28 05:25:21 UTC
Cristl wrote:
This has high-octane flame potential. Please give it a proper read before popping the safeties. Cheers :)

What if the subscription model was changed from units of '30 days' to units of '30 days or 150 hours logged-on time, whichever elapses first' ?

If you think about it, 150 hours must cover almost all of the people who play Eve 'normally' (responses to a recent thread certainly suggested it would). An average of 5 hours each and every day for a month (or equivalent) is pretty lengthy play. Besides, if you're exceeding 150 hours a month and earning, say, 10 million ISK an hour, then you cover several PLEXs handsomely anyway.

I think this would introduce a soft limit to how much benefit someone can get from AFK behaviour and therefore addresses quite a few issues such as Domis in COSMOS plexes, major AFK mining operations etc., but also as-yet undiscovered methods. And no policing of the system would be required at all.

You'd need to allow players to select options along the lines of: “if I don't do anything for 30 minutes please log me off” and maybe AFK cloakers would need something too, but otherwise it seems like it would curb (or at least tax) excessive bot-like behaviour.

What do you think?


I think you are trolling. I didn't want to say it and tried to just leave it at "bad at math". But that is my honest opinion. I think you are asshurt about AFK'ers and this is your best attempt at a covert afk cloak whine thread. Lots of people play more than 150 hours a month including myself. If CCP would alter my contract, I would biomass all 12 toons and go play something else.

I am a paying customer and altering the contract I signed up for is bullshit and will not be tolerated.

If CCP wanted to offer some less than a full month play time for less money deal, I would not care a bit. I would not affect me in the slightest.

Sorry, but you have no business sense. Altering a standing contract in favor of the company and not consumer is a terrible decision.