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New player:

WOOT I have 81 days to do learn how to dominate the universe!

Day 1: Ibis of Doom, Bantam of Mining Fury

Day 2: Merlin of Chaos and Misery.

Day 3: Cormorant of Dominance (lols)

Day 7: The Murderer of Many: Moa "Wait, wtf? My Cormorant does more damage!"

Day 8: *Opens wallet* Wow... a million isk. I am a badass!

Day 14: *Opens wallet* WOOT! 30 million isk! *buys Battlecruiser skillbook* Then learns that he/she is actually still a trial, just a hilariously extended trial account.

Day 15: "Well, my Moa isn't all that great, and my Cormorant got blown up in an asteroid belt. Now what?"

Day 16: "I just spent two weeks of my life training to be the best capsuleer ever, and my ships aren't all that nice."

Day 17: "Hmm, I hear in the Rookie Help chat that the Rifter and Thrasher are really nice, whatever those are."

Day 18: "Minmatar frigate level 3 is training, I can almost fly a Rifter. How can Minmatar ships be space flight capable and so rusty at the same time?"

Day 19: "This has happened to me earlier, but my ship just flashed and I turned into an egg! Did I level up or something?"

Day 20: "Well, since the Moa isn't all that great, I think I'll sell it. I need isk for Minmatar Cruiser skillbook."

Day 24: "Wow, this ship is pretty nice. I'm not sure why Minmatar named their ships after such violent acts. However I do like this Rupture."

Day 30: "Wow, what now? Apparently I'm off limits to Battlecruisers. This Rupture is nice, but sorta slow for what I do. Has it really been a month since I started playing?"

Day 31: "I found a place called Jita today, I'm not even fully sure what it is, but it seems that there are so many people here that the police don't function. I seen someone in an evil looking ship attack another person in a pod on the stargate. I'm really scared for my life. I warped to each station in the solar system, and one of them had hundreds of players outside!"

Day 32: "I sit on a stargate in Jita, watching the passerby and thinking about my future in this game. Suddenly, a yellow ship of massive size flies in next to me and about a dozen other players. This yellow ship somehow attacked me, and all of those people at the same time. My ship flashed and I was back in that egg thing. The yellow monstrosity then attacked my new egg-ship, which somehow teleported me to where I was born. Was that some sort of Game Master trick?"

Day 33: "I hadn't noticed until today, but one of my chat channels is missing. I think it was Rookie Help channel. Now I feel truly alone in this game. The person that brought me here... I told him that I could handle this on my own, without his help. This EVE game is unlike any other I've ever seen."

Day 35: "I learned that it was not a Game Master trick that sent me back to where it all began, that giant ship, aptly named "Armageddon" had killed my capsule. Why would anyone do such a thing? I am the innocent, I haven't been here long enough for someone to dislike me."

Day 36: "I'm not sure what to do now, I've been playing for barely over a month and I have nothing to really show for it."

Day 37: "Exams are near, I must study for them. Perhaps after they're finished I'll look into this game further"

End Noob Tales.

CCP, an 81 day long trial is just too long. The old 21 day rule was like "Upgrade and have better ships, or gtfo."
I can only see this being good for people who are close to the person that invites them, otherwise this will be used for gank alts

Eighty one days is just too long to be stuck in the limbo of Trial Account-hood.

As always, I love you, CCP.

And what do you expect me to do with it...

It should but im not CCP

Yet another ganker buff. I though eve was supposed to be hard.

Step 1'start trial.
Step 2 join corp.
Step 3 scam them out of codes and thrashers
Step 4 kill everyone in the corp as many times as they will let you.
Step 5 biomass and start over.
Step 6 lol and lol and lol

How many of these do you think will be used legitimately? Do people actually still invite real people into eve? Do the marketing drones even play eve? How do they not understand what a big group of sociopaths eve'ers are?

Thank you for your feedback so far, please continue to comment and to share your ideas with us!

The 60 Day Trial Keys will be available later today (the original date in the devblog stating 12:00 UTC was incorrect).

Lets see. 21 days + Free plex = 51 days.
60 days and no plex + 350K = 9 extra days.
Wow. Not. Where's my free plex?

This is PERFECT....

I really hope your metrics will end up showing that players are more likely to stay with EVE after having such a long time to grasp the learning curve!

I absolutely support this!!!!!


Just off the top of my head:

1- Make 30 day standard trial - Why - Cause EVE is freakin' hard for a theme park coddled mmo player to grasp.. the "Where's my avatar-syndrome" and all (thought thats now fixed. - the player has to have a chance to 'adjust'

2 - EVE is unique! We do things differently and have no MMO player counter part.... by doing something the rest of the industry doesn't do, it is free word of mouth marketing, that generates it's own hype.

3 - 60 Day trial should only come with an EVE expansion - like a special.

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I don't see this program as a sign of weakness... I see it as a sign of 'vision'!

Ummm i do not think you will get subscribs from those with add everything takes so long in this game those with add will be soonest to discard it.

if they upgrade we still get our plex or game time right?

Where's your math in 75 days? They are giving 60 days for 350k. 350k is worth maybe 1 day. They are not giving you a plex at full activation that i can see. so they are giving 8 more days vs the 51 day deal.

Ok, I'll try to get all of my codes out. FWIW, thank you for giving us more powerful tools with which to recommend Eve - its exactly the kind of move that will help us with our friends and colleagues.

To the cynics asking if we're desperate for new subs - yeah, I am and I explained my reasoning in my blog (http://liangnuren.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/crucible-is-like-a-marriage/).

-Liang