Player Features and Ideas Discussion

No. A cheaper single-character account is, for most people, equivalent to saying "reduce the subscription price by half", which means giving up ~50% of CCP's revenue. There is no reason to even consider doing that.

And no, the price of omega is not too high. It's the same price as other MMO subscriptions, and when you compare the cost per hour of entertainment with pretty much any other hobby EVE comes out ahead.

If you pay for 12 months at a time, the cost per month drops by a quarter. And you still get three character slots. If you sub via PayPal/CC, please explain why you wouldn't do this?

Basically, what you are paying for is a skill queue and the right to train (and use) Omega skills.
Only 1 character can login at a time.
Only 1 character can train at a time with the subscription queue.

From CCPs perspective having multiple characters on the account is a profit center since a lot of players will use PLEX to train the additional characters. Even if that PLEX was purchased in game with ISK, someone originally bought it from CCP with real money.

{citation needed}

Remember, if you cut prices in half CCP would have to more than double the paying player count just to break even compared to where they are now.



Nope. Subscription costs are the same as other online games, and still incredibly cheap when compared to other hobbies.



Walking in stations was a questionable idea that has thankfully been abandoned. It adds very little to the core gameplay of EVE, at massive cost in development resources. I'm fine with CCP continuing to work on it as a side product, especially if the technology makes it into a complete game, but it's not something that EVE is incomplete without.

EVE's focus on PvP is never changing. From day one EVE has been intended to be a PvP game. If you just want to run dungeons and get cool loot with your friends, without any risk of PvP, then EVE is not the game for you. Sacrificing the consistency of EVE's design concepts in favor of a desperate attempt to appeal to hardcore PvE players is a great way to kill the game.



Dust's problem was that it was a console FPS that wasn't the latest Call of Halo game. Virtually every game that isn't the next increment in the series is doomed to failure, simply because the existing games have already taken the entire market. The primary mistake was making a console-only game and trying to compete in that market as their only hope of success, instead of including the PC players who offer a significant existing customer base to draw from. The individual game design choices are minor in comparison to that mistake.

A reduced rate for only using one character slot would simply allow players who want to use alts to do so cheaper.

I made no such assumption, I asked where all the players would come from if Eve where cheaper.

Try reading what I wrote instead of making assumption of yiur own.

The point of entertainment isn't how much it costs per hour.... such a slave mentality.
I own a sports car, not because it's cheap but because its FAST

I really don't see your point here. Obviously you buy fun things because they're fun, not because they're cheap, but if you're going to say that something is cheap or expensive then you have to look at the price.

hmmm yea... right about that

okay here is a thought

this account would not allow to play multiple accounts at once - ie. it would have the same restrictions as alpha clone in this regard - you cant play full omega + single omega, you cant play single omega + single omega etc.

obviously VM can workaround this as someone mentioned but that is punishable and also much more resource intensive than normal multiboxing

Or ccp could just lower the sub price.
Population goes up, revenue goes up, threads complaining about sub price go up.. everybody wins.