EVE General Discussion

Look what happens when you get greedy:

http://geeks.thedailywh.at/2011/09/15/netflix-losing-customers-of-the-day/
Netflix losing 1,000,000 subs in october over +60% price hike

stupid forums wont let me link it -.-

They thought the could raise their prices 60% like how CCP thought we'd have no issue with a MT store injected into out MT free game.
You... maybe... ever think one of the main reasons we liked this game was
BECAUSE IT WAS MT FREE?

Yeah, thats my last bit of anger on that topic. The genie is out of the bottle now, "theyre gonna stay the course" and "watch what we do not what we say" but as others have said, hopefully when they start seeing people leaving theyll realize they screwed up. When online numbers used to be 35-40k at 9 pm Eastern US time when the past week or so its been 25 - 30k

Read this article in the Economist, it explains the reasons behind netflix direction quite well. DVD's by post hell why not VHS!

http://www.economist.com/node/21526314

with a 15% drop in shareprice, I am considering buying some myself! Investors! meh, sheep with 1 week attentionspan!

I only did the streaming and I think it is actually a decent deal. The movies are pretty terrible but had a couple good ones every month. Has a lot of tv shows though which is what I mainly watched.

I did recently cancel though, but I wanted to play some more games instead of sitting in front of the monitor watching tv......plus had to drop $2k on a transmission for my car so had to cutback on a couple monthly payments :P

I too am a moral crusader! YARR!

Oh wai... it's a game!

Speak with your subscription not with your keyboard, friend.
As a paying subscriber, I tire of you and your ilk mucking up the forums with the same tired and naive arguments.

The vast majority of games in the market now contain some kind of non-vanity products, promotions, specials, or deals.
Whether I like that fact or not is inconsequential, enough people evidently do or it would not be trending in the gaming industry like it is. You are vastly outnumbered by people easily gulled into purchasing non-vanity products just to have something the guy next to them does not merely because he is unwilling to use or does not actually have the disposable income to do so. You know the greater irony here is that the NEX pricing actually prevents masses of these same people from taking full advantage of it, which I find most interesting to be honest. If CCP wanted to milk it as much as possible, they would have made NEX items more readily accessible to a wider demographic than they did. Interesting.

I am unfortunately in the position of either accepting the fact that in today's industry more people than not are willing to take part in these ventures or I simply have to stop playing.

Which do you think I am going to choose?

Yes, yes, EVE is a beacon of light in a sea of inequity! A champion of player rights in opposition to all the evil nefarious games out there trying to make money off us and CCP is trying to take that away from us! ...only it is not, and never has been.

Welcome to the real world.

I know CCP has an Economist on board, and now it seems they have hired an in-house Philosopher as well :) And if that's not the case, I nominate CCP Prism for the job! Wise words....

I did the 3 disc with streaming package I think i was $16.99 when I signed up. It's over $25 with taxes now. Streaming is the best part. I Like the TV shows, I would never have seen without Netflix. Like I said in my other post I can't stand commercials. Jeremiah, Jericho, Married with Children, Family guy, That 70's Show, Southpark, Rome, Sparatcus and countless Documentaries. Sometimes you even find a good movie.

Sucks about the car. As far as streaming I hooked up a small LCD to Blu Ray player next to my Mac. Usually just listen to Docu's while playing. setup

My hair has psychic strength?

You could have just said " I don't agree" but no you moan about people using the same "tired and naive arguments" but then proceed to spout the usual pro-CCP crap that everyone else does. Good Work Fella I for one salute your attempt.

In counter to your "wider demographic" (loving the words) argument if everyone can have who would want it? I don't want it now ,let alone if it was 10 times cheaper. It's tat, like the stuff you win at a fair, worth nothing and about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.

All that junk in the NEX store is to pander to the egomaniacs, children,mentally deranged idiots that think that by somehow buying this stuff they will be seen as the elite, upper echelons of a non existant group of players. These people are sheep blindly led into conveyor belt of completely useless and gawdy items but because they have one it massages their need to feel more supreme either by allowing them to be part of a a supposed "select" group which look down upon the masses or then even worse "I bought this so I can show how lame it is brigade".

Just because something is the norm doesn't mean it's right or correct, just take a look back in history for any one of a thousand things.
I like EVE I'm probably addicted to it in some way and at the moment as the NEX store is selling junk it doesn't bother me, that may or may not change in the future.

It's only the "real world" because sheep like you let it be.

Viking philosopher best philosopher.

As long as the future of Eve Online is hands of guys like this, I feel much more confident about where we're going. :)