EVE General Discussion

Works out approx £20 to get a LANYARD in the Uk, which is a complete rip off quite obviously.

Every single issue the players raised with the previous incarnation of the EvE Store has been repeated. Literally one of the stupidest business models i have ever encountered.

With STREAMS of people begging CCP to make it reasonably priced, they have made it exactly the same total failure as before, and there is literally no reasonable excuse since other smaller company's shipping prices are a fraction what EvE Store prices are for same delivery options.

Bad show CCP, bad show

I'm sure that CCP really appreciates all of the feedback here. (ღ˘⌣˘ღ) We really do have a great community. (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)

That's not quite fair, as they did meet your expectations, didn't they?

After looking into the shop, there is nothing of anykind of interest to me. The ledger maybe, but that's it.

Where are the cool jackets?
Where are the COOL T-shirts?
Where is the cool stuff to put on my wall?
Where are the cool things to put on my desk?

Did anybody at CCP, even cared much enough to develop a business model or even a somekind of a concept about that shop?
Hello? CCP? Hello, is anybody home? *tumbleweeds*
I'm pretty sure it was more like, "We still have all that old employee stuff in the basement, what should we do with it? Hey, lets make a shop."
A EvE shop with quality Brand products, be it from own design or licensed artists could be a gold mine.
But that shop right now?
Seriously, CCP, SERIOUSLY?

Err no? Here in Europe Amazon ships for free if the value of the products is over 29€. You dont need Amazon Prime.
In smaller online shops shipping usually costs 3 - 9€.

In the EVE store shipping costs 24€ (cheapest option). The shirt i want costs 19€.

I assume they ship from Iceland? In that case shipping would be that expensive. But then one would have to wonder why? It should not be difficult to get someone to put a couple of prints on shirts and hoodies and other swag somewhere more central in Europe or the Americas.

I do not think they produce these inhouse anyway, so why not partner up with someone who doesn't live on a frozen rock at the ass-end of nowhere?

Aye, just checked and the shipment cost inside the US is much more reasonable. Still seems a little on the high side, but acceptable.

We'll probably have to accept that they can't please everyone. If they ship from Europe, shipping will be expensive for everyone outside of Europe too.

I'm not a businessman, Jacques, but could it be a 'chicken-and-egg' situation (or do I mean 'Catch-22')?

If they don't have the sales volumes they can't get attractive pricing, and they won't get those volumes if the prices seem unreasonably high (postage included)..

Looked at it, but like other folks it just didn't have that 'must-have' pull about it. An earlier comment suggested to me that someone in the company might have said ' we must have a merchandise store' or 'the players are bellyaching for a merch store', without giving it much more than business-model thought.

Another thing is that EVE's players seem generally to be quite demanding about quality. If you follow some of the comments about the work of the Art Dept, you'll see what I mean. There's a cost to quality and variety in product creation, and perhaps CCP just don't want to justify the outlay.

Either way, the store is disappointing and didn't make me reach for the plastic. Some of the earlier suggestions in this thread are excellent, but, well, what I said...

Not funny ccccp, when you made our new Code tshirt it was sposed to read: Code Special Elite Ganker.

Ha Ha cccccp now please change the G in ganker back from W.

Slapping some random ship art featuring any of Eve's dozen's of ships would have sold it for me, especially now that I have some money to play around with. Hell, just look up "Eve Online" on Bing or Google and click on the images tab and use one of those pics would work. Maybe a poster or two.

That said, and to be fair, they just got it started again, so maybe after some time it'll grow with more inventory...hopefully.