EVE New Citizens Q&A

Disclaimer: this is simply one player's point of view, no more and no less.

After playing EVE Online for about a week now I've realized that if this game were to go free-to-play we, the serious minded participants who insist on quality from our gaming experience and the community it includes, would be forced to suffer the influx of casual rubberneckers who feel they have nothing to lose by indulging their worst habits all over this gamespace. Granted, many new players of requisite quality (read: taking this game seriously enough to not be a total d-bag in game and forum) would come to the table, but the risk is too great. Better to keep this experience subscriber based. If you're willing to pay a monthly fee for something that demands that you use your brain as much as you use the mouse and keyboard, you're going to make the experience matter and not squander it with alpha a-hole nonsense.

There's only so much space out there to play in, and it would be a real damn shame to have to this experience eroded by having to deal with the non-committed who have only signed up to cause havoc, impart grief and lower the reputation of what is unquestionably the greatest MMO of all time.

Thanks for listening!

After a weeks play, how can you be a "serious minded participant" and know how the community is AND know that the game is "the greatest mmo of all time" ?

Im really curious here..

Anyway, I dont see why this thread is needed, EVE wont go f2p.

This is a General Discussion thread.

Do you have questions?
Are you answering questions?

Don't worry buddy, you're exactly the kind of snooty jerk who keeps casual players away from Eve in the first place.

Besides, what is a casual player? Someone who doesn't spend so long playing the game that they get fused to their chair?

Edit: I broke my ten year record of not posting on the forums for this post, goddamn you

Awwww, who needs a hug? YOU need a hug! Yes you do! Yes you do!

Factually speaking, I'm actually a "casual player" for the most part. I just happen to really be digging this game and I am not ashamed to admit it, nor to proclaim it from the rooftops. I have a life and a full time job and divide my free time amongst other pursuits, some of which happen to include gaming. I'd just hate to see this particular gamespace become inundated with jerks who make it their mission to disrupt the norm with needless foolery. Seen it before in other MMO's and hated it, and I only liked those games half as much as I do this one.

Hope this helps clear the air on this.

i'll take a hug. also, this suggests that eve does not have any problems with its player numbers, thus no need to worry about free to play cashouts.

I agree with the general message of the OP's view. Having a subscription-based plan for EVE is the way to go. Only the seriously committed would stay with this game due to the subscription. But, the money is used to continuously upgrade and improve the game in its entirety, which is the most important thing, I would say.

1. This is NOT a NCQA thread.
2. This seriously looks like a: I want to play EVE without paying.

But seriously.

A. Eve can be free to play. Just make 600mil a month and buy PLEX.
B. If EVE becomes F2P it will see a sudden climb of whining teenager subscriptions and a decline in loads of subs who dont want that in their game (for instance me, I play EVE because its a mature playerbase that you meet).
C. Without subs payment CCP cant pay devs to make new content and so you wont have two free expansions a year.
D. And like all those other P2P mmos that went F2P did very well.
E. EVE dont need F2P, it subscription numbers have increased every year for the last decade. Why would they make it free if there are still people comming to the game.

EDIT:

My opinion on you based on all the previous posts you made did climb a lot.
But this thread made you start at 0 again.

My Dear J'Poll;

Here's the thing. During my initial feelaround with this game, I wasn't sure I'd like it or not, and as such was leery of paying a monthly fee for something that I wasn't going to be using very often. If you've read my earlier posts and threads, you know this. However, my opinion of this game changed dramatically the deeper I got, and now I'm not only willing to shell out the subscription fee, but I'm vehemently OPPOSED to EVE going f2p because it would break my heart to see the quality of this experience become ruined by incoming nonsense courtesy of non-committed gamers who would rather grief other players than contribute in a productive manner. Not too long ago the f2p model was the exception, now it seems like it's becoming the norm. I hope CCP doesn't follow this trend, and all indications are that they won't, and for that we can all be thankful. If this point didn't come across clearly in this thread, then I apologize and I hope this sets the record straight. I've appreciated your help and support on the other threads, and I'd hope that you see where I'm coming from here.

Thanks!

Not entirely. Dust has a lot of microtransactions that directly affect gameplay. I can imagine Dust already funds itself.

It's also a really fun game with a playerbase just as mature as Eve has.