Originally by: Kunming

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No one denies the fact that CCP is a company and their primary purpose is to make money. If they ruin EVE online its their RIGHT to do so, no one denies that this is their right and responsibility alone.

Now comes the obvious title question: CCP could have increased the SUB price a notch claimed that the world currencies are all dropping in value (due to them being growth dependant economies in a world of peak oil crisis) so the need to increase SUB to overcome the inflation of paper currency, besides "we give you free expension" and "the game has evolved alot (content wise) since it started" etc etc.. This would net what? 300k * +5.-EUR * 12 months = 18mil EUR more revenue.. lets say u sell 1000 monocles every month (optimal sheep/customer utopian world numbers, even more than 55 in 40hours) thats still only around 840k EUR (less than a million). OFC this only leads to CCP being forced to enter the non-vanity items world and practically force everyone to spend to be competetive, to even come close to the alternative SUB figures. Another arguement for increased SUB is that every subscription has to pay it while out of 300k accounts there are probably only 100k players, will you suit out your mining/trading/etc alt with vanity items or even non-vanity items, they are there for added functionality and even if every player was involved in MT it would probably only be 1/3 of all characters actually involved.

CCP you will make less money with MTs while an increased SUB would have not only been accepted by the majority of the playerbase (while MT will be accepted by a minority and enforced onto the majority), we also wouldnt have the bitter taste of the betrayed and disgruntled customer in our mouths. I wont even mention the broken game that will be with P2W, cause it seems you clearly dont care about that.

So CCP get off your delusional horse of grandiosity cause your idea of MT sucks both conceptually and in practice (it wont make u the buck u hoped for, while ruining everything you worked for), and if u need/want more money demand it the way we are ready to pay, dont try to invite us to dinner get us drunk and then steal our wallet.

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