Skex Relbore
Gallente
Red Federation
RvB - RED Federation
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Posted - 2011.06.27 03:32:00 -
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Damn right I can blame them for wanting to soak us for more cash. This isn't some free to play game where the majority of players are a bunch of freeloaders. This is a subscription based service where we pay a monthly fee for access with an understanding that the field is more or less level.
I'm not some freeloading punk expecting premium service for nothing. I'm a paying customer and I see a cash shop as something that creates a direct conflict between maintaining the integrity of game universe with the desire to generate real world revenue.
If CCP really wants to increase revenue I suggest that they do it the old fashioned way by providing a quality product that people are willing to spend money on. It's not hard hell they've been very good at it in the past.
I watched that damned presentation from Dice too, and I think the decision makers at CCP forgot that they already have an ARPU several orders of magnitude beyond what any of those little F2P games have.
Honestly I think vanity items are already a step to far but at least they don't threaten the integrity of the game world. Anything beyond them is a complete loss of vision, it's the same short sighted idiocy that has lead company after company into bankruptcy and insolvency sacrificed long term viability for short term profits.
CCP needs to remember the old investment truism, bears make money, bulls make money, pigs get slaughtered.
Because right now they are trying to be pigs, they have a damned good thing with EVE that frankly creates a very solid income stream for very little investment, they don't have to spend a fraction of what their competitors do on new content, there is a reason that most of their expansions resemble little more than glorified patches compared to what is put out by their sub based competitors.
Most of the content that really keeps people around is emergent gameplay, look at something like RVB other MMOs have to build special mechanics to promote that sort of thing, in EVE they players just made it themselves using the generic game mechanics.
The player base of EVE provide sufficient income to fund two entirely different products. So frankly when I see suggestions that CCP needs to make more money off of us as simply greedy. I already give CCP over a grand a year why the hell do you think they are entittled to more of my hard earned cash?
They want more money provide a quality product that people want to use, Incarna actually had real potential to expand their user base and therefor their revenue stream if they had spent the time actually developing a real avatar based expansion rather than a poorly optimized buggy excuse for a cash shop with some crappy controls and one of the worst camera controls I've ever seen.
They want to make money then invest in the actual ****ing product rather than a get rich quick scheme.
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