EVE General Discussion

I agree.

If you think EVE is too expensive now, wait until you see how much it will cost when it's "free"...

come on you know the market would die horribly if this went f2p, everything would get farmed to death and markets would have to be npc run because it would not be worth being a trader, it would be titan battles online because they would be so easy to acquire massive stacks of isk through dozens of alts. alts would have to be made illegal in game because it would just be abused, botting would rise and everything would just go t!ts up because f2p games lack any support.

im gonna guess people would still want the free updates/expansions/new content and all the other stuff that ccp do in the game?

To make EVE F2p, would be a point of no Return.
the point to leave!

More player means not better gameplay... just more idiotic F2P Players.

There is always a place to make free accounts ( to attract new players), but the balance will be hard as hell.
Cyno alts, mining alts, R&D alts, production slots all of this must be excluded from those accounts.

I would really love to know how people make the conclusion

"making eve to play will ruin it".

Do you not know that player population is the life force of a game?
Posting charts with no real information if they are tracking actual characters, actual active characters, total characters etc (ie not tracking relative data) is not a way to validate your position.

In fact while we are on the topic i do not recall any game going free to play eve being hurt. Eve could easily be support by an add in the game at the character log-in. So what legitimate argument do you have?

i think a lot of you are just worried about "wow kiddies" Coming here, but let me break it to you, Subscriptions don't keep wow kiddies away if that was the case, we would not have wow today.

So will you do us all a favor and stop being idiots about it.

Lastly

Item shops that are cosmetic or convenience based are highly rewarding for the players and game, its like
shopping but for your character instead of you. How is it going to hurt you if someone buys a robe to role play
and ccp makes what they made off that one transaction they would of gotten in a month?

utterly redic that you think such things, and i want to be the voice that advocates against the stupidity some
of you are bringing forward for this topic.

you're the only one being an idiot and ranting about f2p

Then shut up, 99.9% of the stupid is coming from you.

Eve doesn't appeal to most people because of its very premise, not the price.

In my opinion, CCP does not even want more players into the game atm.

It seems like they do little to no advertising. I see the occasional EvE flash banner when im surfing, but i gues I would not see those if i would not bee surfing eve sites in the first place.

I live in germany, and I see TV adds for crappy F2P MMOs all the time. If they have the money to do so, why does CCP not do it ?

You can basically take the " I was there" video, shorten it a bit and put it into a TV commercial. Advertise even one week in several big countys and you should get a huge attention from people that currently dont even know that EvE exists.

Except in Eve, it's long term players that are the life force of the game. They are the only ones who have the skills necessary to do some of things in the game, and F2P games do not encourage long term play. They're like a drug - the players are out there always on the lookout for their next fix in the form of a new game, and the old ones are left to wither and rot with a core player base that's barely large enough to keep the servers running.

Games like LOL are the exception in the F2P arena, not the rule.