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Kergan Earthsmasher
Seraphim Industrial Materials
Zodiac-Syndicate
#1 - 2017-02-26 04:47:15 UTC
I was just curious if there is gonna be another Game time sale in the next month. I missed the other one by about a week. Thank you and have a magical day!
Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
#2 - 2017-02-26 04:48:52 UTC
Your guess is as good as anyone's. CCP rarely announces these far in-advance.

I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
Kergan Earthsmasher
Seraphim Industrial Materials
Zodiac-Syndicate
#3 - 2017-02-26 04:51:09 UTC
That's too bad. If they did people could plan around it.
Neuntausend
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2017-02-26 05:10:41 UTC
People aren't supposed to plan around that. If they wanted players to regularly get extras with their gametime, they'd just make it permanent. Those deals are promotional offers: A bog standard marketing tactic. For a short time you get something extra or you get it cheaper, and the more you buy at once, the more you can save/get on top of what you are purchasing. This is to get players who wouldn't normally buy a year of gametime or who still have game time and wouldn't normally buy just yet to impulsively spend more money than they otherwise would.
Hir Miriel
Elves In Space
#5 - 2017-02-26 05:35:04 UTC
Kergan Earthsmasher wrote:
I was just curious if there is gonna be another Game time sale in the next month. I missed the other one by about a week. Thank you and have a magical day!


Last time CCP had a deal I responded to their offer asking for the same deal that they offer new players. CCP responded.

CCP couldn't accept my money, and couldn't tell me when they might.

CCP cannot tell us because marketing people thrive on secrecy, but mostly these deals come out when the US has holidays, or when a competing product has a release, but usually the marketers for the competing product time them for US holidays anyhow.

It means that CCP offers cheaper deals to new players than they do for repeat customers.

Which is the opposite of a loyalty scheme, rewarding disloyalty, because if other companies do the same, and i suspect they do, since marketers are not original, this means it makes sense for all players to be disloyal and drift from game to game. Perhaps we already do this, and CCP just wants to reinforce that behaviour.

I find it puzzling that CCP sells game time at one price to one group and then refuses other groups.

*shrug*





~ ~~ Thinking inside Schrodinger's sandbox. ~~ ~
Neuntausend
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2017-02-26 05:41:01 UTC
The first dose is usually cheap. I don't think that people switching to other games is a problem that marketing can fix. Eve is pretty unique - there's no other game quite like it, meaning that people who want to play "something like Eve" pretty much only have one option. If people stop playing Eve in favour of another game, I'd assume that most do so because they like the other game better.
Do Little
Bluenose Trading
#7 - 2017-02-26 09:09:40 UTC
If you enjoy Eve the 37 cents a day for the subscription is unlikely to be a deal breaker. Recent promotions aimed at existing subscribers have offered multiple character training rather than a discount - encouraging people who might otherwise pay with PLEX to part with some real world cash. Promotions aimed at new players encourage them to take the plunge with a 6-12 month subscription rather than simply dipping their toe in the water with a 30 day sub. Marketing 101 - they do it because it works.
Shiloh Templeton
Cheyenne HET Co
#8 - 2017-02-28 21:55:00 UTC
Maybe around Fanfest?

I think the best subscription deal I ever got was from Amazon on a black Friday sale. Fortunately someone mentioned it on these forums.