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New dev blog: A 60 day trial key for your favorite soon-to-be EVE player

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CCP Phantom
C C P
C C P Alliance
#1 - 2011-11-30 11:08:33 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP Guard
With Crucible and the upcoming holiday season we wanted to start the ball rolling early and give you another free gift: A brand new 60 day trial key, freely transferable to your friends who always wanted to play EVE (but were afraid to try).

Read all about this huge initiative in the new blog by CCP Hekatonkheires and leave your feedback in this thread.


Update

  • The 60 Day Trial Keys are now available on the Account Management page in the "Services" menu -> Voucher Center. Get them!
  • It is not possible to trace back to your accounts or characters with these Trial Keys. Therefore it is not possible that the recipient of the Code will be somehow able to discover which characters you own through these Trial Keys.

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Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2011-11-30 11:13:56 UTC
Not sure if 60d trial is very useful; anyone actually playing the game will hit the "trial account ceiling" (of skills and ship types being unavailable) before 60d is up.

Naturally if you still keep any of the remaining days from the 60 days if you activate the account during the trial, it isn't that big of an issue but I recall having some issues with that with some previous EVE offer. Is that the case?
Epofhis
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#3 - 2011-11-30 11:19:50 UTC
In the words of one of my corpies:

"Yaaay! Suicide Alts!"

Also, second.

Before posting in Features and Ideas, please remember that Eve is in no way obligated to change based on your stupidity, ineptitude, or well honed sense of personal butthurt.

Hienz Doofenshmirtz
Outsourced Manufacturing
#4 - 2011-11-30 11:20:33 UTC
nice, I'll have to look around and see who I want to punish with this

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Leovarian Lavitz
Ninjuggernauts
Fly Fearless
#5 - 2011-11-30 11:21:09 UTC
@Jarnis Those are there to give incentive to subscribe/plex imo
Freezehunter
#6 - 2011-11-30 11:21:45 UTC
Desperate for players, are we?

Inappropriate signature, CCP Phantom.
Lightzy
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#7 - 2011-11-30 11:22:51 UTC
Do I get free 30 days or plex if a buddy subscribes after 60 days?
Cyra Mangeiri
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2011-11-30 11:22:52 UTC
Freezehunter wrote:
Desperate for players, are we?


Yes, we are. Now go back to your corner.
Terminal Entry
New Fnord Industries
#9 - 2011-11-30 11:24:01 UTC
Jarnis McPieksu wrote:
Not sure if 60d trial is very useful; anyone actually playing the game will hit the "trial account ceiling" (of skills and ship types being unavailable) before 60d is up.


I would expect that most accounts won't be used 24/7 unless someone actually does get into EVE in a big way.

IBC
Kuhn Arashi
State War Academy
Caldari State
#10 - 2011-11-30 11:27:13 UTC
Interesting.

I would like to know if we get the plex if they subscribe after the 60 days are up as well.

But the trial restrictions really make 60 days more of a pain in the ass than a neat perk.
the 21 day trial runs into those blocks already. Three times that? People will rage quit.

Hopefully for you, they will rage buy instead.
Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#11 - 2011-11-30 11:28:43 UTC
Quote:
We’re not looking for hordes of l337 kids with ADD

good. Otherwise you could have given out WOW->Eve char tranfers Big smile

how to fix eve: 1) remove ECM 2) rename dampeners to ECM 3) add new anti-drone ewar for caldari 4) give offgrid boosters ongrid combat value
Mr Bigwinky
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2011-11-30 11:31:54 UTC
4 million alts in rifters, I will be undefea.... wait, this has been done before :(

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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#13 - 2011-11-30 11:34:02 UTC
Nice 60 days...

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Smoking Blunts
ZC Omega
#14 - 2011-11-30 11:36:59 UTC
can you give me back teh plex's i added to my new alt accounts so they coudl train for 51days?

i feel cheated

OMG when can i get a pic here
Teleni Pavle
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2011-11-30 11:41:41 UTC
Since these are one off per existing EVE account, I feel that they should be free of the standard trial restrictions. However, there should be some sort of repercussions on the giver if the key ends up going to a bot or spammer or what have you.
Floydd Heywood
Doomheim
#16 - 2011-11-30 12:00:23 UTC
Nice. Sadly I don't know anyone who is interested and smart enough for EVE.
Bloody Wench
#17 - 2011-11-30 12:08:13 UTC
Floydd Heywood wrote:
Nice. Sadly I don't know anyone who is interested and smart enough for EVE.



Same. (Not empty quoting)

[u]**Shepard Wong Ogeko wrote: **[/u]  CCP should not only make local delayed in highsec, but they should also require one be undocked to use it. Then, even the local spammers have some skin in the game. Support a High Resolution Texture Pack
Sonko146
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2011-11-30 12:29:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Sonko146
Lightzy wrote:
Do I get free 30 days or plex if a buddy subscribes after 60 days?


Reading between the lines yields the answer: No

So no you do not get a P.L.E.X if the person you gave the 60 day trial subscribes.

@CCP I think this is a Nice experiment. i would like a Follow up devblog with all kinds of stats and graphs when its over. Roll
Captain Evenwel
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#19 - 2011-11-30 12:40:40 UTC
I definetly agree that extending the trial time is the right move. Not so sure about the skill training wall though. I mean, I was pretty anal even early on when I started with my skills, but I always had another level higher in weapons or navigation to fall back on.

Might even be better having more new players going more broad Ruski Frigates training. Especially with the new expansions and T1 applications.

But we do need at least a little incentive for inviting someone to 60-day as opposed to the alternative with plex.
Kelduum Revaan
The Ebon Hawk
#20 - 2011-11-30 12:50:46 UTC
This is nice - EVE is very deep, and longer time to get involved should help a fair bit.

My only concern is that there doesn't seem to be a clean way (via the API or other means) to determine if a player/account is no longer a trial.

At present, we have to restrict access to things like hangars for newer players simply because we can't determine if they are trial character or not, and therefore could be discarded/biomassed after they manage to pull off a theft.

I suppose we could look for skills which are only trainable by non-trials, but that's not all that simple unless you automate it all.

Also (slightly off topic), but since the new customisable API keys were added, there's not even a unique identifier in the API any more for an account (barring the creation time, which is not actually unique), which means that someone could abuse one of these 60 day accounts against the same corp over and over.
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