EVE General Discussion

Took a long break from Eve. Just before it went free to play as eve gambling (somer blink, iwantisk and so on) was ruining my eve experience. Saw CCP finally banned gambling and fancied coming back.

I went onto account management and saw it's still £10 a month in the UK! Why the hell is it still so expensive after going semi-F2P. I would have come back if it was around say £7.50. I have friends that were thinking of coming back also and we all assumed it would be cheaper to play. So basically we won't be coming back at these prices. If you want to keep your servers a live, lower the costs and maybe you'll actually get people logging in on Omega accounts. Sorry to see eve end up like this.

F2P is more like a demo mode, not real F2P....

As for the price, the quality of the game has not reduced in fact it got richer (gfx, content, gameplay), hence there is no justification that it should be reduced.

Besides its really not that much, for someone smoking cigarettes its 3 packs, or a decent lunch... Also if you think you need to buy Plex afterwards to keep up, well thats not the case, thats more for people who cant wait several years to fly their desired ship.

I pay £13.54 which I thought was ok

Then after a bit I noticed every time I paid the bank took:

£1.50 for international Debit card purchase fee and
£0.37p for international Debit card transaction fee

Whats that all about?

Due to inflation, you are paying over 30% less than you used to.

You can't give up two pints a month?

Geeez, 2.5 pounds??!

Can't you find some aluminum cans to sell to a recycler. Or stand on a street corner with a cardboard sign and beg for money for an hour or two on the weekend?

Not long ago CCP made a sale for subscription price. It lowered for about 1 or 2 euros, IIRC. It would be interesting to see, if that move payed out.

Since current PLEX price does really motivate people to start paying for the subscription as never before, the lowering the price for the sub can really keep in game players, who would otherwise switch to totaly free to play projects from wargaming or similar.

Example: If I get PLEX for 20 hours of PVE, I will pay witrh PLEX for my game time, cause PVE is sometimes fun and relaxing. But if I need to PVE for 20,5 hours a month for the PLEX it is a grind and start to be boring, so I rather pay a subscription once for every 2 or 3 months. And if subscription pric is lower, I may reconcider usuall 20 hours of PVE. So the lower the subscription, the more PVP, more action in space...

And btw F2P have had a huge impact - all those little accounts a massing little PLEXes bit by bit, makeing the PLEX price go through the roof, which motivates player to concider subscription,and if subscription price is not that high as before... well, CCP have the data from the subscription price sale. I even almost payed for it myself... Which did not happen for a long time already.

I saw an offer that CCP had for new players and offered to buy a year's subscription but they knocked me back as I wasn't a new player.

Internet marketing is a mysterious thing.

Well, if you KNEW the ropes, just pay one month sub and you'll be plexing later, so your expenses will stay at 10 pounds.