EVE General Discussion

Frist off with the way plex works EvE is already Free To Play.

So dont come complaining to me saying DIAF EvE will Never be FTP. It is... it has been for a while now.

Even though Plex adds income to CCP it is still FTP for the player who buys it ingame.

I personally pay a sub every month and have no intention of stopping this.

but interesting enough i stopped paying for my alts a while ago.

I also have friends who will save up isk every month so that they can buy a plex esentially playing to have for Free or in other terms Free to Play as long as you play it enough to make it free to play.

But i have also had friends who cant dedicate that much time to eve and eventually run out of isk and do not have spare cash and let thier game time expire.

This is no fun and it leads to people leaving the game.

What i would like to see is if you do not have an active sub or a plex running you can still log into the game loose ships do market stuff but you cannot TRAIN skill points and cannot UPGRADE thier clone. So if you get podded you have to get a plex or sub to update the clone.

So this way if you need a little exra time ratting to save up for that plex you can but you loose the ability to train skills untill you buy that plex...

what do you gusy think? should we extend the Free to Play Mechanic for EVE?

edit:
also you would get a special overview stamp of a green money sign... so that way everyone in local would know you are not subbed and would want to kill you to force you to re-sub... it would be a new profession. kill the free loader.

EvE is not free to play, and never has been.
Someone is always paying for the game time, even if it's not you. you buy a months worth of paid game time for an ingame currency but someone out there still paid for the time,

Not everyone plays skillpoint-addiction-online.

Most of us.

But not everyone.

Not going to happen since this literally would make CCP less money.

If you want something close to this then train and sell characters on your third character slot, buy PLEX with the proceeds, and play for rather free on your other two characters. This way CCP gets what they want, you get what you want.

true yes someone already has to buy that plex and sell it on the market and this will not change.

As it stands alsong as i have a plex i can play the game and earn enough isk to buy another.

why not extend this but make it so i cannot train SP untill i either buy a new plex or sub to the game?

People would still be buying plex to either cut the ratting needed for pvp or to activly train sp.

Yeah i know ghost training was removed... but thats a different thing altogether.

one is not playing the game and getting SP. the other is playing the game but not getting Sp.

…or, more accurately, Veterans play without paying for it themselves; CCP makes more money.
ed: Or do you mean that this would be the effect of the OP's suggestion? If so, then yes, that's why it's a bad idea.

You mean the way it already works? The question remains: if you start handing out the service people pay for for free, how do you propose that CCP will make money?

How would CCP make more money from this?

you already have this... its called 2nd and 3rd char on your accounts.

you only pay for one active training accout but are given up to three...

I wonder if that super you tackled will hang around for you while you relog to switch to your alt.

game sub = $14.99 USD
PLEX sub = $19.99 USD

its simple, every time you plexsub and destroy a PLEX, CCP makes an extra 5 bucks for a monthly sub.

I can't see how your plan would be more profitable