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[ Feature ] Eve Online - free to play - PLEX for skilling
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elitatwo
Zansha Expansion
#41 - 2015-09-23 02:10:38 UTC
Amarr Virgin wrote:
...then enjoy your empty systems...


As nine year old vet with- no wait, wrong speech.

Back when EVE just becoming 3 years online with awards all over the place the number of player after downtime was like ~1000-2000.
At EU primetime or 18-22h EVE client time there were like 5-8k members online. We have a little more than that today in 2015.

Everything is fine.


Now F2P, why the foxtrott is this thread still open??

Eve Minions is recruiting.

This is the law of ship progression!

Aura sound-clips: Aura forever
erg cz
Federal Jegerouns
#42 - 2015-09-23 07:29:58 UTC
Love it or not, Eve will become f2p or will slowly fade. The whole market of such games switches to f2p system and concurence pressure raises every year. Now CCP offers 30 days trial accounts, I remember it was 2 weeks or 3 weeks with buddy program.

The big question is how to balance premium players and not paying ones... short or no skill queue is an option. No cloaking is also good option. But kicking accounts from the system? Maybe ban them from trade hubs, yes, but ... well, I understand, that for null dwellers the suggestion related to TiDi or not TiDi can be crucial.

But the game will defenetly need more restrictions for not-paying accounts. Just do not prevent them from exploring New Eden, let them get into nulll or PLEXes of all kind, wormholes and there should be no limitation for exploration. Cause it is the big part of EvE online apeal for new players. World full of wonders.

Absolutely free head start for newcomers!. Just click the link and get extra 250 000 SP!
Kenrailae
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#43 - 2015-09-23 12:22:56 UTC
Eve is not in any danger of being forced to be F2P.


Eve is in more danger of falling prey to a cash grab mentality. Both of these ideas should be killed with apocalyptic fire.

The Law is a point of View

The NPE IS a big deal
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#44 - 2015-09-23 12:26:41 UTC
OHNYGOODKILLITWITHFIRE!!!!!!!11111!!!!!!11!1!ONE!

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

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Donnachadh
United Allegiance of Undesirables
#45 - 2015-09-23 13:42:19 UTC
erg cz wrote:
Love it or not, Eve will become f2p or will slowly fade. The whole market of such games switches to f2p system and concurence pressure raises every year. Now CCP offers 30 days trial accounts, I remember it was 2 weeks or 3 weeks with buddy program.

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away many used to say the same things and they were wrong. That was 2007 when my son first started playing EvE.
When I started in 2010 there were many that said CCP would have to follow the free to play trend that was really just getting started. They were wrong and so are you.

Free to play is supported by those who are willing to spend cash money to buy items, abilities or boosters of some sort that makes their characters BETTER in some way than those who play for free. This is a concept that we do not want in EvE and we are glad that CCP resists the demands to go that way.

You say they will need to go free to play so they can survive in the market, I do no think you are correct in your beliefs but I do know one thing for sure. If they go free to play there is a very large percentage of the vet players that will quit as the responses here clearly show. And one has to wonder how long those free to play individuals will stay in the game when they are clearly outclassed, out gunned and out earned by every single pay to play individual they come up against?
slumbers
Doomheim
#46 - 2015-09-23 13:47:19 UTC
F2P, you could limit active accounts to 2 from same IP. Halve bounties, deactivate trade skills, implants would have 0 effect on you. The list could go on. But tbh, I dont see any real need for EvE to go F2P.

Throw a 1 week free venue on all accounts, see how many will reconnect back.

I would prefer expanding the map via a mechanic similar to whs , providing incentives to resub. A new map maybe? Parallel Universes? Hopefully this is what player built gates will do.
MrQuisno
Doomheim
#47 - 2015-09-23 13:52:03 UTC
Eve is already free to play with plex cards mate... all you need is your time to play for free... problem we face now is plex card prices up up up.... playing for free is now a dying tread....
afkalt
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#48 - 2015-09-23 13:57:40 UTC
F2P is the only thing, short of the real deal, I will ever describe as cancerous.

It cannot die fast enough.

A game this deep, this broad and you feel entitled to F2P? Honestly, get out, just get the hell out.


And if it's that important, grind up the isk, it's not even hard.
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