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Decline in numbers... starting to turn into RAPID!!!

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Galactic Rangers
#261 - 2015-08-27 10:13:49 UTC
Astral Azizora wrote:


The rising cost has now made the purchase of PLEX with ISK untenable for me, as it has for many others. If you think this isn't a problem for the game, then you are part of the problem.



but you're playing since 2013 at least, and you can't make 1 billion within 30 days?

accept the help the guy above offered,, you need it.
Speedkermit Damo
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#262 - 2015-08-27 10:34:30 UTC
Primary This Rifter wrote:
If you think the onus is on the players to alter their behavior so the sov system works, you're an idiot.

The system needs to be designed to accommodate how players are known to behave. Anything else is destined to fail.


Even when that behaviour is sucking the life out of the game?

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.

Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#263 - 2015-08-27 10:47:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Webvan
Jeremiah Saken wrote:
Webvan wrote:
I spend more on one bottle of bourbon compared to a month of EVE. Well Mr. fresh forum alt, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

I'm just curious, I can buy 30 PLEX for my monthly salary, how many can you?

I think you need a raise, bro, or you did the maths wrong I'm guessing. People that receive food stamps here get more than that Straight
I don't get paid by a monthly salary, I contract my work, don't get paid til the jobs done. But a year sub comes rather easily. People are going to have a hard time with it when PLEX hits say 1.3b this year, or more, likely more, even though they could easily just pay a sub/s but just refuse to out of some sort of entitlement.

edit: unless you are speaking of in-game salary? ? Like managing PI with a steady income or something? EVE isn't a job for me. I suppose I could do that though, pull my nightmare out of my back pocket and grind incursions every day, prolly could buy 30 PLEX a month, not that I've ever bought one. Maybe mix it up with some SB missions. I don't typically do the most lucrative things in EVE though, it's a game for me, not min/max flying or anything like that, not a second or third job. My fav ship is still the Hawk, and I just play for fun. Then I do other stuff, because I know my limit in a game at where I'll burn out. Farmers burn out.

I'm in it for the money

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12

Odie McCracken
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#264 - 2015-08-27 11:03:10 UTC
Astral Azizora wrote:
Previously my activities were enough to pay for a PLEX on one of my accounts. The rising cost has now made the purchase of PLEX with ISK untenable for me, as it has for many others. If you think this isn't a problem for the game, then you are part of the problem.


I think it's awesome I can spend a tiny amount and get a ton of isk. Why not just pay for your account, they are not expensive.
Astral Azizora
Doomheim
#265 - 2015-08-27 11:15:55 UTC
Odie McCracken wrote:
Astral Azizora wrote:
Previously my activities were enough to pay for a PLEX on one of my accounts. The rising cost has now made the purchase of PLEX with ISK untenable for me, as it has for many others. If you think this isn't a problem for the game, then you are part of the problem.


I think it's awesome I can spend a tiny amount and get a ton of isk. Why not just pay for your account, they are not expensive.


I already pay for one account, I'm not paying for two. EVE isn't worth nearly £20 a month.
Odie McCracken
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#266 - 2015-08-27 11:29:07 UTC
Astral Azizora wrote:
Odie McCracken wrote:
Astral Azizora wrote:
Previously my activities were enough to pay for a PLEX on one of my accounts. The rising cost has now made the purchase of PLEX with ISK untenable for me, as it has for many others. If you think this isn't a problem for the game, then you are part of the problem.


I think it's awesome I can spend a tiny amount and get a ton of isk. Why not just pay for your account, they are not expensive.


I already pay for one account, I'm not paying for two. EVE isn't worth nearly £20 a month.


Ok that's all good. Why are you complaining then?
Jeremiah Saken
The Fall of Leviathan
#267 - 2015-08-27 11:37:24 UTC
Webvan wrote:
Quote:
Jeremiah Saken wrote:
Webvan wrote:
I spend more on one bottle of bourbon compared to a month of EVE. Well Mr. fresh forum alt, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

I'm just curious, I can buy 30 PLEX for my monthly salary, how many can you?
I think you need a raise, bro, or you did the maths wrong I'm guessing. People that receive food stamps here get more than that Straight
I don't get paid by a monthly salary, I contract my work, don't get paid til the jobs done. But a year sub comes rather easily. People are going to have a hard time with it when PLEX hits say 1.3b this year, or more, likely more, even though they could easily just pay a sub/s but just refuse to out of some sort of entitlement.

In fact it less than 30 PLEX, I round it a bit. For those who want to play there's always subscription ~ 15 euro/month. Don't fool ourselfs here, times when 2 week of mining in hisec could plex account are gone. We have superinflation here. I think 1,5/PLEX is not so distant scenario, 2 bil is more likely next border. There are not enough ISK sinks in game right now. Bottle of Jim Beam is about the same price as monthly subscription btw Blink

"I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas..." - Herman Melville

Hemat Amatin
Aurora Clandestine
#268 - 2015-08-27 11:38:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Hemat Amatin
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Speedkermit Damo
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#269 - 2015-08-27 11:55:18 UTC
Maldiro Selkurk wrote:
The Chribba data shows that there was a general increase in gaming activity for most of the time period shown on the graph with a decline starting in the 2nd quarter or so in 2014 with one activity spike, after which the decline accelerated in all of 2015 to fall to levels equal to about the middle of 2007.

The question isnt, has there been a real decline in activity for most of 2014 and all of 2015 because clearly there has been a decline, the real question is why.


That would be shortly after the B-R battle and the end of the Halloween war wouldn't it?

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.

Salvos Rhoska
#270 - 2015-08-27 12:09:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Salvos Rhoska
I think the guy on 30PLEX/month might be talking about expendable income, or perhaps his student/social support budget.
If not, I hope he manages IRL to find a more profitable job, as that is indeed very low for western standards of living, and I hope he can nonetheless play EVE alongside that, as a beloved, fun and affordable hobby. So many nights EVE has saved me from going out and killing my budget/liver in bars...

But anyways, back on topic.

I figure the PLEX price is mostly an "issue" for players with many accounts/multitraining habits.
It gets additively harder to PLEX past 1-2 accounts (in most of EVE activities anyways).

I think its still reasonable for most players, even with quite little time for gaming, to manage 1bil for 1 account, and 2bil for 2, if they are reasonably active ingame and commit atleast some bareable part of their limited gaming time to generating income.

(On the PLEX issue specifically, its more concerning that PLEX is not entering the market in the first place, rather than what the nature of demand ingame is, which is always very high.)



On the positive side:

1) Less multi-accounts leads to more player commitment to those fewer accounts.
As in game entities, they become more prominent in the EVE universe. More "real", even in this virtual world, rather than just one faceless clone among many others. Its a kind of secondary and ephemeral value, that cant be converted to isk, but something that nonetheless always remains relevant in what is essentially a RPG.
Consider it "culture", if you will. It doesnt pay out cash, but it enrichens the experience.

2) More specialisation and getting better at doing the activities those specific characters do. Leading to streamlining, ingenuity and more creative solutions to doing those activities, thereby pushing the EVE envelope internally.

3) Less multi-accounts lead to a stronger incentive for interaction with other players, for better shared profits in their endevours.
It promotes more community, interaction, and arguably, more player sourced content. Less kids playing alone in the sandbox, and instead playing together with others in that same sandbox, towards greater goals and rewards.



Furthermore, CCP can, if necessary, reduce sub costs (especially on the bigger package deals as %) or introduce more frequent and/or differing sub special offers, so as to retain more segments of the player population, with their varying payment proclivities.
Anything is possible in this regard, while still making profit (and hopefully more) for CCP.

Multitraining in particular, has the potential for cost adjustments (as it sits in an optimum position between RLM/PLEX alongside the limitations of only one pilot in space from that account at a time), and finding a sweet spot for a subbing player with nominally one account, to still feel he is getting some good bang for his buck, even though he either doesnt have time to earn isk for PLEX, or his ingame activities inherently involve very little profit.

Industry and trader players, in particular, would be very drawn to this, as many of their characters are very located and static, housed on one account, and can be cycled through in that players limited gaming time. I also would be encouraged to start a PI/production/research/trader account with multiple characters inorder to explore this (extremely complicated and daunting) side of the game, if multitraining options were incentivized by costs (Idea just occured to me, so I havent checked the current costs, and have never multitrained yet, so just a suggestion).
Jenn aSide
Soul Machines
The Initiative.
#271 - 2015-08-27 12:20:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Jenn aSide
Webvan wrote:
[quote=Jeremiah Saken][quote=Webvan ] People are going to have a hard time with it when PLEX hits say 1.3b this year, or more, likely more, even though they could easily just pay a sub/s but just refuse to out of some sort of entitlement.


+1

"But but but, it exists, and I exist, therefore I am entitled to it even though I don't want to work for it!!!" Sorry if my 'entitlement-ese' is rusty there, it's been a while (kindergarten) since I thought someone owed me something just because Twisted

I had a discussion with a dude over comms a while back while flying in a NPSI fleet. He was talking about PLEX prices and how they are 'so unfair to casual players who don't have much time and was poor because they wer ein college or something.

I tried to explain to the...Wise Gentleperson... that PLEX was basically a trade: People who have time (and like doing PVE or market stuff or at least don't mind it) trade that time to people with less time (and/or less preference for pve stuff) but who have more money.

Where the flying flap-jacks does a poor busy college student fit into there? Well, I told himi that the place he personally fits is called "a 15 dollar subscription". 15 dollars over the course of a month is COUCH CHANGE. It's finding 2 quarters, or 50 pennies every day for a month and putting that towards a video game subscription. There are water fountains in parks you can do to and it you are willing to make a 'reverse-wish' (lol) you can play EVE. Hell, you could just move to Chicago, learn to play music and spend one hour per month making an EVE sub.


But somehow, people think plex should be somethign available damn near for free for everyone. The main culprit in plex prices in CCP, they made a game where it's easy as hell to make space money, THEN they kept stuffing it with even easier ways to make space money. When i started, 20-30 mil per hour was 'good isk' Now it I ain't making at least 130 mil per hour, I can't even be arsed to get out of virtual bed.

Y'all plex complainers want lower plex prices? Convince CCP to lower or get rid of some of these ridiculously easy PVE rewards.
Jeremiah Saken
The Fall of Leviathan
#272 - 2015-08-27 12:47:19 UTC
Salvos Rhoska wrote:
I think the guy on 30PLEX/month might be talking about expendable income, or perhaps his student/social support budget.
If not, I hope he manages IRL to find a more profitable job, as that is indeed very low for western standards of living, and I hope he can nonetheless play EVE alongside that, as a beloved, fun and affordable hobby. So many nights EVE has saved me from going out and killing my budget in bars...

It's an average monthly salary in my country. Lucky I don't have kids, yet. It's abyss we are talking here (everything east from German border). It doesn't mean I live under the bridgeBig smile. Think about Russians now, their currency is falling to dangerous levels.

Jenn aSide wrote:
Y'll plex complainers want lower plex prices? Convince CCP to lower of get rid of some of these ridiculously easy PVE rewards.

CCP just increased them last patch (null pve changes). Anyway there are many ways to earn good money, few ways to spend it. I will propably change from PLEX to subscription in the future. Currently I have no items to spend on all that ISK I literally find.

"I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas..." - Herman Melville

Salvos Rhoska
#273 - 2015-08-27 12:52:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Salvos Rhoska
Jeremiah Saken wrote:

It's an average monthly salary in my country. Lucky I don't have kids, yet. It's abyss we are talking here (everything east from German border). It doesn't mean I live under the bridgeBig smile. Think about Russians now, their currency is falling to dangerous levels.

I see.
I hope you manage to find a way to fund your hobby.
Good luck and good fortune to you, Eastern EVE broski!

(Tip: Try your luck at some of the raffles by EVE Twitch streamers. I won a Kestral skin today worth about 200mil which will certainly help towards my next PLEX (as I cant even fly the ship). Competition is roughly between 1:20-500 odds, depending on the stream, which are pretty damn good all things considered.).
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#274 - 2015-08-27 12:53:05 UTC
Jenn aSide wrote:


Y'all plex complainers want lower plex prices? Convince CCP to lower or get rid of some of these ridiculously easy PVE rewards.


Technically, they could also make the game worse to push plexers out of it. Then it should go down. LolLolLolLolLol
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#275 - 2015-08-27 13:12:26 UTC
Frostys Virpio wrote:
Jenn aSide wrote:


Y'all plex complainers want lower plex prices? Convince CCP to lower or get rid of some of these ridiculously easy PVE rewards.


Technically, they could also make the game worse to push plexers out of it. Then it should go down. LolLolLolLolLol

Yep, they just need tp listen to some of these daily GD threads on eve is dying and reset server naow and how to fix eve etc. Then in no time PLEXers will be dropping like flies and CCP can go back to making board games.

I'm in it for the money

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12

Jeremiah Saken
The Fall of Leviathan
#276 - 2015-08-27 13:15:32 UTC
Salvos Rhoska wrote:
I see.
I hope you manage to find a way to fund your hobby.
Good luck and good fortune to you, Eastern EVE broski!

It's not that bad. 2,5 year of playing, toon with 45mil SP, and experience how to make ISK.
I don't have expenses, no alts, no pvp, so everything I earn-in game may be spend on PLEX. When not, paid time is not a big deal.

There's a huge inflation right, now caused by many factors. Still there are enough ISK to grab.

"I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas..." - Herman Melville

Jenn aSide
Soul Machines
The Initiative.
#277 - 2015-08-27 13:17:43 UTC
Webvan wrote:
Frostys Virpio wrote:
Jenn aSide wrote:


Y'all plex complainers want lower plex prices? Convince CCP to lower or get rid of some of these ridiculously easy PVE rewards.


Technically, they could also make the game worse to push plexers out of it. Then it should go down. LolLolLolLolLol

Yep, they just need tp listen to some of these daily GD threads on eve is dying and reset server naow and how to fix eve etc. Then in no time PLEXers will be dropping like flies and CCP can go back to making board games.


The second most supreme irony I've ever seen in the game is the fact that most people's suggestions to save the game would actually end up killing it lol.

I say second because the 1st most supreme Irony is Dominion and now Aegis, systems that were supposed to 'open up' null to small groups of people that instead spawned 'blue donuts' and stagnation lol.
Jenshae Chiroptera
#278 - 2015-08-27 15:38:04 UTC
When I was paying a monthly subscription in South Africa, due to the exchange rate, it was the same expense as a week of groceries.
Now it is a bus ticket and a cider at the pub in the UK.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.

ArmyOfMe
Teddybears.
#279 - 2015-08-27 16:04:40 UTC
Might have something to do with plex prices spiking at 1,1b.

I know that two of my subs are running out and wont be renewed anytime soon.

GM Guard > I must ask you not to use the petition option like this again but i personally would finish the chicken sandwich first so it won´t go to waste. The spaghetti will keep and you can use it the next time you get hungry. Best regards.

ArmyOfMe
Teddybears.
#280 - 2015-08-27 16:10:24 UTC
Dave Stark wrote:
Astral Azizora wrote:
Thanks to PLEX price this is one more account that won't be renewed in less than two weeks when my time is up.


You can't make 40 mil per day?

Really?

Isnt it more a question of having to do it every day, rather then doing the fun things in eve?
Plus ppl have more then one or two accounts often.

GM Guard > I must ask you not to use the petition option like this again but i personally would finish the chicken sandwich first so it won´t go to waste. The spaghetti will keep and you can use it the next time you get hungry. Best regards.