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Dev Blog: Bring Your Friends! Buddy Invites For Trial Users!

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Styphon the Black
Forced Euthanasia
#21 - 2015-03-18 15:41:51 UTC
Ok, I am not seeing how this is better than the normal Buddy Invite system that is currently in place?
Ned Thomas
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#22 - 2015-03-18 15:45:00 UTC
Styphon the Black wrote:
Ok, I am not seeing how this is better than the normal Buddy Invite system that is currently in place?



It's not and that system isn't changing. This is just opening up a Buddy invite option to people who are on their trial.
Aston Martin DB5
Deaths Consortium
Pandemic Horde
#23 - 2015-03-18 18:19:31 UTC
Ereilian wrote:
Stinks of desperation and a false attempt to pump concurrent online user numbers.

But thank you for the ability to make multiple trial account suicide gankers!!


LOL .... play video games much? Recruiting friends for a few perks and/or free game time have been around 4ever.Roll

They can't do it through plex but rather $... so if they want to create a 2 month account for ganking, more power to them.Pirate
Mysteriala
HC - Nocatswereharmedmakingthiscorp
#24 - 2015-03-18 19:07:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Mysteriala
So I invited my buddy through the buddy invite program a few days ago. Am I still eligible for these rewards or is this an entirely new program? Or does this not affect the current buddy program?
Udonor
Doomheim
#25 - 2015-03-19 09:50:01 UTC
Super smart. Tap into crowd sourcing and initial enthusiasm better.

Many people like to learn new games together in very early stages and work together within hours of joining. EVE training and rookie systems tended to make that somewhat impractical for groups of true newbies.


Old system limited word of mouth to people that wanted or didn't mind having a noticeable over friends they invited.


The old system tended place at least a small temporary barrier to friend playing on equal footing at beginning. We could do a few real things in EVE BUT invited friends would be working tutorials for days. Heck it might be 1-2 weeks before they could effectively join us in our chosen real tasks.

Because most of us are CHEAP and wary about paying that first subscription fee and also we wanted that PLEX for buddies. So there tended to be 2-3 weeks under our belt before we could invite friends. And that meant
Udonor
Doomheim
#26 - 2015-03-19 09:55:12 UTC
Mysteriala wrote:
So I invited my buddy through the buddy invite program a few days ago. Am I still eligible for these rewards or is this an entirely new program? Or does this not affect the current buddy program?


Sounds like it just changes who can send invites. No need to wait for paid subscription to make invites. Though you can't collect until you pay.

Nothing about invalidating old buddy invites and rewards.
Udonor
Doomheim
#27 - 2015-03-19 10:04:55 UTC
Should see more people joining as groups of newbies over just a few days.


No more periods of self-imposed isolation so you can both collect invite rewards and use free trial days to make sure. (Greedy us.)


Even if early invites means a higher rate of invitees find the game unsuited to their interests (less informed basis for invitation). At least a few will stick around.

Plus retention tends to go up when you bring your own friends. You more fun together. And maybe best of all you work that steep EVE learning curve together as first days newbie group. Not so much feeling isolated and frustrated in first few weeks. More people to research or see things from different angles or make a broader contact base with EVE vets.
Styphon the Black
Forced Euthanasia
#28 - 2015-03-19 15:39:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Styphon the Black
Honestly the reason that new players loose interest in Eve is that it takes way to long to become useful at anything. If CCP offered some sort of skill training booster for new characters and accounts that would increase retention rates of keeping new players in the game.

Most people don't even know about cerebral accelerators or where or how to get them. Especially new players. The fact that most of them, that are available in contracts, are so insanely priced also makes them unattainable by those same new people just coming into the game. The only way for new players to get access to one now is to purchase the Eve Core Starter Pack on a third party website before they even create their eve account.

It seems like if CCP just started new accounts with the effects of these device already added to the new character (perhaps after the first purchase of game time or plex) that would get new people having enough inital skills to actual be able to do something in eve and want to play the game instead of getting bored of it after the first week or two.
Sgt Ocker
What Corp is it
#29 - 2015-03-20 22:52:57 UTC
Smacks a little of desperation.
Things like this from established companies usually mean something about the company is not working as intended.

Eve is in a rare position in the customer market. It is not a game for kids as the learning curve and complexity is just too steep to keep younger players engaged for too long if they don't have friends who also play.
If they start playing in their own little group of friends you end up with small groups of players who stick to themselves for a few months trying to learn the ropes and then 1 by 1 leave because it just takes too long to do anything worth doing.

Eve is designed to be played by adults, it is way too complex and involved for most kids to bother with.

Yet it is a game, nothing more and gaming is about masses of kids getting online feeding the company bank accounts.

My opinions are mine.

  If you don't like them or disagree with me that's OK.- - - - - - Just don't bother Hating - I don't care

It really is getting harder and harder to justify $23 a month for each sub.
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