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Pewty McPew
EVE Corporation 2357451
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Posted - 2013.03.09 11:14:00 -
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With the upcoming expansion well on it's way. I was thinking about all of the "Former" Eve players who dropped over the years.
Several years back CCP sent out an offer to players who's accounts had lapsed. I believe it was 7 or 14 days free play. This was designed to allow them to check out the new features in the expansion.
How about taking take a step further?
After the summer expansion is released. Make Eve free for 14-30 days for every player, active or not. If you have ever paid for a sub your account would be eligible for it. New players signing up would get an additional 14-30 days added to their after subbing.
This would be a great PR stunt as well as potentially bringing in customeers who for whatever reason have stopped playing.
Yes it would mean a drop in their income for a bit but the overall goal of bringing in new as well as old players back would far outweigh the short drop in income. The influx of returning and new players as a result of this kind of offer would be great.
I have several friends who once played Eve and may very well be persuaded into playing again. They just need a little prodding. A free renewal trial might be just what is needed.
Discuss.......
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Turelus
Caldari Independent Navy Reserve The Fourth District
275
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Posted - 2013.03.09 11:19:00 -
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Which name is it you want back from an alt account which isn't subbed?
*Edit* Sure why not, I like free stuff! "Don't count on others for help. In the end each of us is in this alone. The survivors are those who know how to look out for themselves." |
Tarpedo
Incursionista
25
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Posted - 2013.03.09 11:19:00 -
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It takes much less than 30 days to become bored with EVE (again). 7 days is ok term to force account re-activation or yet another multi-month hiatus. |
Sturmwolke
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Posted - 2013.03.09 11:31:00 -
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Makes sense for an EVE 10th Anniversary gift, rather than another stupid virtual trophy item for Sturmwolke's Museum of Art.
The EVE economy infrastructure interferes with monetization of virtual pixels, it puts a leash on what CCP can or cannot do. Hypothetically, if they can successfully decouple certain perks (e.g. personal paint job) similar to the WoT economy, weekly or monthly offers (that seems to keep the game alive) could be possible.
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Demolishar
United Aggression
829
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Posted - 2013.03.09 11:33:00 -
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No please don't. Just do a 7 day offer to inactives. There's no point giving the free sample to people who are already hooked, however much they ***** and whine, it won't change anything and they won't unsub over it.
Watch what they do, not what they say. But don't leak it in a newsletter again and don't try and **** against the wind. CCP is doing a good job at the moment. |
Felicity Love
STARKRAFT
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Posted - 2013.03.09 12:01:00 -
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I'd just prefer a red velvet smoking jacket for lounging around the Captains Quarters, with a big golden "10" on the back.
And a pickled Sheep head on the CQ wall. THORRABLOT forever !!!!
Proud Beta Tester for "Bumping Uglies for Dummies" |
Arronicus
Vintas Industries Mistakes Were Made.
317
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Posted - 2013.03.09 12:59:00 -
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Giving out 14 days free to every -active- eve player in the game, (Last figure was what, 450k active accounts), would cost CCP roughly 3.6 million USD in potential revenue. sorry, too tired to convert to Ice-Dollars, or Lutfisk or whatever their currency is. Doesn't seem like good business sense to me. 7day resub to long expired accounts (over 6 months expired) sounds like a good idea to me. |
Angelique Duchemin
Serenity Prime Kraken.
171
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Posted - 2013.03.09 13:04:00 -
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Sure I'd like some free money from CCP for no personal effort but I don't see how I could reasonably argue in favour of it. The Battle of Wizna. Like the movie 300 but with worse odds and the Germans as the attackers. |
stoicfaux
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Posted - 2013.03.09 13:47:00 -
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Enable 7-14 days on inactive accounts. Gift these accounts a special Nexus store item. The item should be salable on the market for the isk cost of a PLEX.
Bitter Vets get to dump their isk on a limited collector's item, Re-Subs have the opportunity to play for a month via the PLEX, CCP gets moar PLEX sales or at least a reduction in the PLEX supply.
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Arduemont
Rotten Legion Ops
1279
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Posted - 2013.03.09 14:01:00 -
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So... You want CCP to go completely without income for 30 days?
You want their staff to be unpaid over that time aswell? No? Oh, in which case you want them to make redundancies then. No? Oh, in which case use your damn brain you idiot. "In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." |
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Angelique Duchemin
Serenity Prime Kraken.
174
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Posted - 2013.03.09 14:43:00 -
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If anything I'd like CCP to take more of my money. No more of these half arsed patches pawned off as "free expansions"
Give me a proper expansion.
Put the whole dev team on it. Add full avatar interaction. Fill nullsec with what the nullsecers want. Pirate hubs or whatever it was.
Just put an army of devs on the game and do all the things you want to do but haven't been able to motivate due to financial restraints and then box it as an expansion at $60. I'll buy it. The Battle of Wizna. Like the movie 300 but with worse odds and the Germans as the attackers. |
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
2845
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Posted - 2013.03.09 16:56:00 -
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That's millions of ISK lost revenue for CCP ... wtf is going on in your head for proposing such an idea ? o_O
Aaahhhh i know ... it's not YOUR money .... |
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
2845
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Posted - 2013.03.09 16:58:00 -
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Arronicus wrote:Giving out 14 days free to every -active- eve player in the game, (Last figure was what, 450k active accounts), would cost CCP roughly 3.6 million USD in potential revenue. sorry, too tired to convert to Ice-Dollars, or Lutfisk or whatever their currency is. Doesn't seem like good business sense to me. 7day resub to long expired accounts (over 6 months expired) sounds like a good idea to me. They currency, you halfbrain, is ISK. |
Sentient Blade
Walk It Off
811
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Posted - 2013.03.09 17:16:00 -
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I've done this before with companies I've worked for, we sent out about 100,000 emails with free account re-activations for a month. We got a decent return on people coming back, although many didn't stay it was still worth it.
But re-activating everyone who's been expired for 6 months or more for either 14 or 21 days (equivalent to them taking an [extended] trial) seems like a perfectly good idea to me. |
Velicitia
Open Designs
1193
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Posted - 2013.03.09 17:19:00 -
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Pewty McPew wrote: They just need a little prodding. A free renewal trial might be just what is needed.
Discuss.......
Had to read this a couple of times ...
You know you've played EvE too long when... |
Beekeeper Bob
Beekeepers Anonymous
475
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Posted - 2013.03.09 19:13:00 -
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Once you've lost the addiction to EVE, there is no going back.......
The single biggest danger to EVE is the proliferation of ALTS! Kill an alt today!
Petition for a Minimum bounty of 10 mil. Prevent useless bounties!
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Arronicus
Vintas Industries Mistakes Were Made.
322
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Posted - 2013.03.09 19:16:00 -
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Solstice Project wrote:Arronicus wrote:Giving out 14 days free to every -active- eve player in the game, (Last figure was what, 450k active accounts), would cost CCP roughly 3.6 million USD in potential revenue. sorry, too tired to convert to Ice-Dollars, or Lutfisk or whatever their currency is. Doesn't seem like good business sense to me. 7day resub to long expired accounts (over 6 months expired) sounds like a good idea to me. Their currency, you halfbrain, is ISK.
I do love that you couldn't see that such a blatantly obvious joke was just that. |
Felicity Love
STARKRAFT
314
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Posted - 2013.03.10 00:22:00 -
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Angelique Duchemin wrote: Just put an army of devs on the game and do all the things you want to do but haven't been able to motivate due to financial restraints and then box it as an expansion at $60. I'll buy it.
This... in a CD expansion set, $60 or whatever... and don't forget the "Special Edition Red Velvet Smoking Jacket".
Reach down and squeeze 'em, CCP, because if you can make a video about pickled sheep balls, you can do anything.
Proud Beta Tester for "Bumping Uglies for Dummies" |
James Amril-Kesh
4S Corporation RAZOR Alliance
4270
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Posted - 2013.03.10 01:24:00 -
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I'll settle for a bonus neural remap. Malcanis for CSM 8 Module activation timers are buggy - CCP please fix |
Kedv
0
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Posted - 2013.03.10 02:47:00 -
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Angelique Duchemin wrote:If anything I'd like CCP to take more of my money. No more of these half arsed patches pawned off as "free expansions"
Give me a proper expansion.
Put the whole dev team on it. Add full avatar interaction. Fill nullsec with what the nullsecers want. Pirate hubs or whatever it was.
Just put an army of devs on the game and do all the things you want to do but haven't been able to motivate due to financial restraints and then box it as an expansion at $60. I'll buy it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZxHAZChcYU |
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Charlepetit LaJoie
Trust Me Ltd
310
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Posted - 2013.03.10 03:08:00 -
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CCP is giving us an expansion. Don't we owe a gift to CCP? |
James Amril-Kesh
4S Corporation RAZOR Alliance
4271
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Posted - 2013.03.10 03:24:00 -
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Angelique Duchemin wrote:If anything I'd like CCP to take more of my money. No more of these half arsed patches pawned off as "free expansions"
Give me a proper expansion.
Put the whole dev team on it. Add full avatar interaction. Fill nullsec with what the nullsecers want. Pirate hubs or whatever it was.
Just put an army of devs on the game and do all the things you want to do but haven't been able to motivate due to financial restraints and then box it as an expansion at $60. I'll buy it. And then what happens to people who don't want to pay $60 for an expansion? They won't be able to play the game anymore. This would hurt CCP financially more than it would help. Terrible idea. Malcanis for CSM 8 Module activation timers are buggy - CCP please fix |
Angelique Duchemin
Serenity Prime Kraken.
197
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Posted - 2013.03.10 12:02:00 -
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James Amril-Kesh wrote:Angelique Duchemin wrote:If anything I'd like CCP to take more of my money. No more of these half arsed patches pawned off as "free expansions"
Give me a proper expansion.
Put the whole dev team on it. Add full avatar interaction. Fill nullsec with what the nullsecers want. Pirate hubs or whatever it was.
Just put an army of devs on the game and do all the things you want to do but haven't been able to motivate due to financial restraints and then box it as an expansion at $60. I'll buy it. And then what happens to people who don't want to pay $60 for an expansion? They won't be able to play the game anymore. This would hurt CCP financially more than it would help. Terrible idea.
I'm sure CCP has the competence on hand to make the bigger parts of the new expansion available only to the people. who bought it.
Believe it or not but far larger MMOs than this have designed and published expansions and successfully so.
Assuming the group you're speaking of even exists. I have a hard time seeing someone fork out $20 a month for this game but drawing some arbitrary moral line in the sand over paying for an expansion.
Developers cost money, their time costs money.
All new content is something we have to pay for. The current system uses developers very scarcely. Because we don't pay for new content in large chunks they have to deliver it in meagre portions. A new ship here and there.
The fully animated avatars was just windfall from DUST. We got the captains quarters but a space station door that doesn't lead anywhere and may very well not lead anywhere for years to come.
They could even make a PLEX version of the expansion that people could buy and trade so no one has to feel left out.
At the end of the day every single piece of new content is something we have to pay for. If we finance it through the subscription fee only then it's going to be a very slow process which it has been too. The Battle of Wizna. Like the movie 300 but with worse odds and the Germans as the attackers. |
Acac Sunflyier
Burning Star L.L.C.
539
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Posted - 2013.03.10 12:05:00 -
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Can I have a free 16 days as I joined when it was a 14 day trial? CCP don't make us wait another decade for a drone overhaul; DRONE OVERHAUL NOW! |
Josef Djugashvilis
Acme Mining Corporation
1058
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Posted - 2013.03.10 12:26:00 -
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Ask not what CCP can do for you, but what you can do for CCP. This is not a signature. |
Light Raider
Bohemians
0
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Posted - 2013.03.10 12:26:00 -
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Felicity Love wrote:I'd just prefer a red velvet smoking jacket for lounging around the Captains Quarters, with a big golden "10" on the back. And a pickled Sheep head on the CQ wall. THORRABLOT forever !!!!
I like that one, but think that a comfortable night robe and a pair slippers would be better to be on CQ looking at the news. |
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