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CCP Marketing... desperate are we yet? 50% discount!

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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#1 - 2013-09-20 19:57:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
Seriously, I've seen things... I've seen Power of 2 offered to just subscribbed characters... but this one just is jaw dropping. 1 month of gameplay + 1 month of dual training for 14,95 € -i.e., 50% effective discount.

Read it with your own eyes:

Quote:
LET US ENTERTAIN YOU
FOUR THINgS TO RETURN AND TRY IN EVE

Hello [redacted],

Every journey begins with a single step, so we've compiled a list of a few single steps that can kick off countless hours of things to do in EVE Online.

- Enlist in a Militia - Click the Militia button and take sides in faction-based skirmish warfare

- Click the scanner button - do a directional scan and see what wrecks, complexes or other ships you can find, forage or fight.

- Jump to another system - as soon as you enter the system, the scanner overlay will sweep the area, revealing otherwise unknown secrets of the universe

- Visit the EVE Community Site for the latest tournaments, events, specials and storyline progression in EVE Online

30 days game time + dual character training for 14.95
Resubscribe and get one month of game time PLUS one month of Dual Character Training for only 14.95. Pursue multiple career paths at once as you explore the new content and possibilities that have been introduced since last you played. Visit Account Management to take advantage of this limited time offer or to reactivate with one of our other money-saving multi-month subscription plans.

(LITTLE PRINT FOLLOWS - I.F.)

30 days subscription and Dual Character Training for 14.95. Offer ends September 29th 2013. Note: The Dual Character training timer will start to count down immediately upon purchase.


Someone is grabbing money like crazy before october comes... Roll

(Collection edition = buy before october; prelaunch package = buy before october. Also october 2011 was a critical month in CCP's finances as they had to repay a loan...)

Roses are red / Violets are blue / I am an Alpha / And so it's you
Rengerel en Distel
#2 - 2013-09-20 21:26:26 UTC
I get mails like that from RIFT (never played it), SWTOR ( never played it) etc. all the time, most go to fake sites that just want you to log in and give them your info. If it's an actual real deal for returning players, who cares? What does dual training cost CCP? It's a 1 instead of a 0 in a field in your info.

With the increase in shiptoasting, the Report timer needs to be shortened.
Varius Xeral
Doomheim
#3 - 2013-09-20 21:30:46 UTC
Rengerel en Distel wrote:
If it's an actual real deal for returning players, who cares? What does dual training cost CCP? It's a 1 instead of a 0 in a field in your info.


because obviously it means eve is dying and needs to be quickly transformed into a socialnetworking grindfest to save it

Official Representative of The Nullsec Zealot Cabal
Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#4 - 2013-09-20 21:33:47 UTC
Oh look, EVE is dying again.

Tinfoil much?





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There's a million angry citizens looking down their tubes..at me.
Rhes
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2013-09-20 21:35:51 UTC
The OP is somebody who believes that Eve can't survive without more emotes, space pants and RP/WiS content. I guess marketing emails are supposed to be some sort of proof.

EVE is a game about spaceships and there's an enormous amount of work to do on the in-space gameplay before players (or developers) are ready to sacrifice it for a totally new type of gameplay - CCP Rise
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#6 - 2013-09-20 21:37:00 UTC
So less of a deal than many of the old buddy invite and alt account offers…?
Johan Civire
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-09-20 22:25:35 UTC
Rhes wrote:
The OP is somebody who believes that Eve can't survive without more emotes, space pants and RP/WiS content. I guess marketing emails are supposed to be some sort of proof.


Any one have mention something about WiS here? any one ? no. Please keep it on topic and stop trolling dude.
Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#8 - 2013-09-20 22:30:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Doc Fury
Johan Civire wrote:
Rhes wrote:
The OP is somebody who believes that Eve can't survive without more emotes, space pants and RP/WiS content. I guess marketing emails are supposed to be some sort of proof.


Any one have mention something about WiS here? any one ? no. Please keep it on topic and stop trolling dude.


Perhaps the OP should keep her tinfoil conjecture confined within the WIS thread where she hatched it, instead of creating another thread for attention whoring.

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There's a million angry citizens looking down their tubes..at me.
Sir Jack Falstaff
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2013-09-20 22:36:15 UTC
Rhes wrote:
The OP is somebody who believes that Eve can't survive without more emotes, space pants and RP/WiS content. I guess marketing emails are supposed to be some sort of proof.

Dude, I just defended you in the other thread, don't make me regret it. Roll

But seriously, marketing deals like this are common in subscription businesses: magazines, web sites, services. Getting people to sign up the first time is the hardest part, that's why you see these kind of deals.

CCP is not dying and walking in stations rulz!

Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
Rhes
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2013-09-20 22:36:47 UTC
Johan Civire wrote:
Rhes wrote:
The OP is somebody who believes that Eve can't survive without more emotes, space pants and RP/WiS content. I guess marketing emails are supposed to be some sort of proof.


Any one have mention something about WiS here? any one ? no. Please keep it on topic and stop trolling dude.


He posted the same thing in the WiS thread.

EVE is a game about spaceships and there's an enormous amount of work to do on the in-space gameplay before players (or developers) are ready to sacrifice it for a totally new type of gameplay - CCP Rise
War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#11 - 2013-09-20 22:37:06 UTC
Marketing contacts unsubbed players with special offers.

This is definitely new and groundbreaking info.

Please let us know when your former long distance company contacts you next.

I don't judge people by their race, religion, color, size, age, gender, or ethnicity. I judge them by their grammar, spelling, syntax, punctuation, clarity of expression, and logical consistency.
Five Finger Army
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#12 - 2013-09-20 22:43:31 UTC
Why such hostility towards the OP? he just loves the game in different ways.

You should really show some trollerance to the guy.
Jada Maroo
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2013-09-21 01:04:30 UTC
It doesn't count as a deal until you can game it in such a way that you can get banned.
Eggs Ackley
#14 - 2013-09-21 01:07:53 UTC
Aaah yes another clerk who is unrecognized business genius thread....EVE is dying.
Literally Space Moses
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#15 - 2013-09-21 01:38:55 UTC
That's not jaw dropping. Hell, that's not even really notable.

#T2013
Literally Space Moses
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#16 - 2013-09-21 01:43:06 UTC
I mean, if you're looking for two characters, for $15 you can get a 51 day account and 30 days on your main account.

#T2013
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#17 - 2013-09-21 01:46:40 UTC
Five Finger Army wrote:
Why such hostility towards the OP? he just loves the game in different ways.

You should really show some trollerance to the guy.

Considering he takes every opportunity to trash EVE and CCP for doing anything unrelated to avatar based gameplay I think "he loves the game in different ways" is misleading.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Diomedes Calypso
Aetolian Armada
#18 - 2013-09-21 02:39:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Diomedes Calypso
Not an EVE is dying but an EVE is Cleverly Thriving... finding ways to walk the road between two camps --
Making those that want to Pay happy.. (charging them) and giveningh those that would play if free more ways to get more free time and offers at lower prices that are closer to free than higher prices.


Trend continues --

There is a further move to free to play...

... not easy for you nuts who are black or white people.. but 5$ a month is closer to free than 10$ a month.

More free trials, more buddy programs, more power of two.. on top those special offers.

.. if more people play more of their time without even a plex, that moves the game closer towards free to play.. it is free to play for more people for longer periods and game time bonuses.

It is really hard for most of you to grasp, but attracting new non playing players often leads to more $ . Gamers have friends. Gamers mention EVE while playing other games....

... and here is the part many don't want to hear, as they're sure that by giving CCP the Plex ticket for game time that someone else bought for them with $/Euro that they are actually paying CCP $ when they turn it in.

No.. the other guy paid them.. you did the guy a favor by giving him isk so he'd pay for your game time... with CCP's blessing.

Those guys buying the tickets come with some proportion with the guys that want to play for free. 5 friends play for free.. one of the 5 will probably get a wild hair up his butt, and spend a gift or a bonus etc to sell 10 plex to buy a carrier and some other goodies... or sell 30 plex to buy a character.

To get the guy lose with his wallet it makes sense to give game time away... get as many people hooked and interested and some will pay extra.

I'd bet you that 10% of the players generate 70% of the cash revenue for CCP.

Sure, every character consumes a ticket that someone paid for.... but that's not the point .. there wlll always be someone to give a guy isk at some rate or another to add another acount ... Someone.. not you, not most people.... some people.

The real question is how to get more people likely to go on a binge, and the way is to get more people playing who gain enough interest in the game to think it is a good idea.



Side note :

For those of you that think of your game assets having a real $ because they have a black-market $ value:

If the price of plex were lowered straight out from 15 $ to 7.50 .. that character of yours you might think was worth $500 would then be worth $250 within a few months..... character values have a vary close correlation to the isk it takes to buy a plex. Rough rule of thumb was 200 mllion isk per million sp when plex were 350 to 400 million isk. With plex in the 500 to 600 million range the rule of thumb is 300 million isk per million SP 400/600 = 200/300

.... bawhhahahaha! .. its CCP's money. not ours .. so I'm kind of happy to have my few hundred billion lose real $ value (black market)

.. lower RMT value creates less temptation to do what I know is wrong .....if its only a few hundred I don't need to wonder if it would be better to get $1000 to send my kid to camp by skirting some rules.

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Tauranon
Weeesearch
CAStabouts
#19 - 2013-09-21 07:20:37 UTC
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
Seriously, I've seen things... I've seen Power of 2 offered to just subscribbed characters... but this one just is jaw dropping. 1 month of gameplay + 1 month of dual training for 14,95 € -i.e., 50% effective discount.



Power of 2 alts have had up to 90 days for a 1 month sub, and that 1 month sub has been payable with a plex bought with isk. ie its nothing new. My power of 2 alt dates from 2009.
Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#20 - 2013-09-21 07:30:41 UTC
These offers are nothing new *shrugs*

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