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Future Eve online: Free to play

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Caliph Muhammed
Perkone
Caldari State
#61 - 2013-09-17 13:46:06 UTC
Roime wrote:
Future EVE Online: NPC corp alts are not allowed to post on the forums, and badposters are permabanned for stupid ideas.

Standard moderation policies like this have proven to increase subscription rates by 25-40% in MMOs.



I could get behind this. The difference though must be clear. Censorship strangles the community but true moderation of bad ideas would be a god send.
Yeep
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#62 - 2013-09-17 13:50:17 UTC
Jessi Burns wrote:
Many people would migrate for a the feel of what it would be like to start from the beginning.


You can't start from the beginning even on a new server. The current state of Eve is a product of people's skillpoints and the processes and events that caused them to train those skills. Having a second server be any kind of balanced would mean maintaining a second code base.
Druthlen
The Carlisle Group
#63 - 2013-09-17 13:54:22 UTC
If eve f2p I teh quit.
Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#64 - 2013-09-17 14:01:42 UTC
If done properly then sure. If done by offering OP ships & ammo for cash, no.

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flakeys
Doomheim
#65 - 2013-09-17 14:06:12 UTC
I can only think of one good thing to introduce eve FTP : it will get flooded with people who'll go literally insane from the trolling , scamming , suiciding and general eve-habbits we all enjoy so much about this game. Blink










Well that is untill the TOS has changed so much in the first 3 months that eve will no longer be that cold harsh world we like to drama-talk about.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Chandaris
Immortalis Inc.
Shadow Cartel
#66 - 2013-09-17 14:10:41 UTC
Eve is already F2P. you just have to not be terrible at it.
flakeys
Doomheim
#67 - 2013-09-17 14:11:43 UTC
Chandaris wrote:
Eve is already F2P. you just have to not be terrible at it.



More like SEWP ... Someone Else Will Pay , i love plex's Blink

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Johan Civire
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#68 - 2013-09-17 14:30:53 UTC
Sex Slave Girl wrote:
Let's talk about the good and bad stuff that comes with it.

For starters, I think the active eve population will go up, by a lot. Possible reaching 200.000 players on a normal day.

I also think, we will have 4~7 cloaky neutrals in every null sec system, that afk all day.

Jita will stil be limited to roughly 2000 players, but instead. The entire constellation will be nearly full. Reaching Jita would be impossible.

Suicide freighter ganks are more easily attained. As 1 guy could get 150 free to play accounts and use rifters to suicide on 1 Freighter.

The bittervets and other old carebear people will quit the game. But instead for every one of them, eve online gets 30 free to play players (who would probably never pay or barely go for microtransactions).

Time Dilation is a natural thing, as it will affect everyone, for the whole time. Fleet op Fights will probably resulting in a lot of server crashes.

But there are some good things too that come with it. We will have more people to play with! I, believe that eve online currently is a stable game, and due to this, will attract a lot of new players if it were to become free to play.

However the game will be changed so much, it won't be eve as we know it.



No just no if eve become free to play I quit for sure. No need to have kids flying around and isk sellers publish the website in local no thanks. Eve free to play its not the way to go eve is not based like World of warcraft to get ass many people in the world to play. Eve like money but that's not the case here. The know if the make it free to play it will get more money but the game is rune. And the dream is gone. More people will not say its a better game. See world of warcraft and every other MMORPG the are most of them are dead boring just plain dead eve in the other hand have a future still not complete so the have tons of options the can do with the game. Some one was just that smart 10 years ago to think about it. I don't know his name or I give him the credits because he or more is the one that made eve what it is and not a dying mmorpg sins the start.

Thumbs down for this threat.
Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#69 - 2013-09-17 14:40:58 UTC
Roime wrote:
Future EVE Online: NPC corp alts are not allowed to post on the forums, and badposters are permabanned for stupid ideas.

Standard moderation policies like this have proven to increase subscription rates by 25-40% in MMOs.




Yes please do this lets see what happens, that would be quite hilarious for many little reasons Lol

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Desivo Delta Visseroff
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#70 - 2013-09-17 14:43:17 UTC
Never! Free 2 Play is a LIE. It is never free. It is a trap and the ultimate scam brought about by companies like EA and their greedy, filthy and abhorrent ilk. Evil

I was hunting for sick loot, but all I could get my hands on were 50 corpses[:|]..............[:=d]
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#71 - 2013-09-17 15:01:03 UTC
Skeln Thargensen wrote:
PLEX is such an elegant solution for both 'F2P' and gold selling that they'd have to be completely mental to change it.


This is such a good sentence that I'd like to give everyone the opportunity to enjoy reading it again.

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#72 - 2013-09-17 15:04:26 UTC
Yeep wrote:
Jessi Burns wrote:
Many people would migrate for a the feel of what it would be like to start from the beginning.


You can't start from the beginning even on a new server. The current state of Eve is a product of people's skillpoints and the processes and events that caused them to train those skills. Having a second server be any kind of balanced would mean maintaining a second code base.


More to the point, existing player organisations are hugely better organised and there have massively more supporting resources (EVE survival, evemon, Dotlan, etc etc etc).

Not only would CCP need a "new code base" to give us that 'beginning of EVE' feel, they'd need to make a whole new game.

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Caviar Liberta
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#73 - 2013-09-17 15:15:12 UTC
Ammzi wrote:
OP, please biomass.


But before you do, you can contract all your stuff and transfer all your isk to me.

Thanks
Lord Ryan
True Xero
#74 - 2013-09-17 15:15:22 UTC
WOOT! WOOT!

Do not assume anything above this line was typed by me. Nerf the Truth, it's inconvenient.
Dersen Lowery
The Scope
#75 - 2013-09-17 15:16:05 UTC
I see that the Federal Navy Academy is now accepting legacy admissions.

Proud founder and member of the Belligerent Desirables.

I voted in CSM X!
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#76 - 2013-09-17 15:21:48 UTC
Malcanis wrote:
Skeln Thargensen wrote:
PLEX is such an elegant solution for both 'F2P' and gold selling that they'd have to be completely mental to change it.

This is such a good sentence that I'd like to give everyone the opportunity to enjoy reading it again.

You're right there

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Skydell
Bad Girl Posse
#77 - 2013-09-17 15:46:52 UTC
It would destroy EVE Online.

No matter how many restrictions you put on the free account, much like skills and assets, it''s secondary to numbers. Blob trumps in EVE. Expect people to have upwards of 2000 accounts where the situation demands it. CCP has said the game will handle 100K online at any time. That number would cap out in the first month.

As it is right now, anyone industrious enough to look can get a 2 month throw away account for $5.00 US. It doesn't make EVE a stronger game. Free EVE would be the nail in the coffin. No and's if's or but's.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#78 - 2013-09-17 16:53:54 UTC
Do people really think it would be a good idea to have CCP shut the game down for six months to a year while it's completely rebuilt from the ground up to be free to play? Because that's the only way to turn a game designed from the ground up to be a sub based game into a F2P.

I know I'm not keen on seeing that happen.

Mr Epeen Cool
Utremi Fasolasi
La Dolce Vita
#79 - 2013-09-17 17:15:32 UTC
Chribba wrote:
I rather see a future with less trolls.

/c


Spoken like a true son of Thorr. Pirate
Djana Libra
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#80 - 2013-09-17 17:52:49 UTC
Victoria Sin wrote:
I preferred Eve when peak was 4k players. It really was like the Wild West back then.

I failed very hard at playing it though. It's a lot easier now. Big smile



too easy