i want to be the voice that advocates against the stupidity some
of you are bringing forward for this topic.

Making Eve free to play would kill it. Flat out, no question, slow and lingering death rattle kill it.

First of all, unlike other games, training in Eve is time based - time you pay for. Now I can create a character on a free account, let them train for two years and then decide to log in and play?
Production alts being free to play? Well, there goes the economy. The market will look like Sisi - 1,000,000 of everything in every system and all for 100 ISK.
PvP? Forget it - Every system will have 300 people in it all tyring to kill you and each other. It would be like a grand melee in the coliseum. You'd undock and explode nearly instantly - but who cares when you can buy a pimp fit Machariel for a few thousand ISK?

The game would first stagnate to levels only dreamed about during the days of the blue doughnut.
Then it would fail, rapidly, uncontrollably.
And on the day they turned off the servers, a final message would appear giving everyone logged in the name and address of their savior - the OP - who has released from their chains of slavery to Tranquility, our Lord and Master.

tl;dr: Eve is not like any other game. **** off. Also, no. Stop trying to kill our fun because you're a cheap bastard.

Do you not know that player population is the life force of a game?

he is a game developer he should already know all this ;) if he did then this topic would have never started

In my opinion, CCP does not even want more players into the game atm.

Im sitting here wondering how much feed this troll will get

What, no hats?!?

As soon as any item is sold in this game that is only bought by real money and benefits the players actual character and not some colourful skin or clothing item i am gone. I will not play any game that requires me to buy more and more items to stay competitive. I play games to win, winning is my fun, i am not playing a game where people can get items and advantages over me because i wasnt willing to mortgage my house to keep buying items.

I will never play any games that have any items that are bought only by real money.

I have also stopped buying games that are full of dlcs, it just allows games to be released half done and for the developers to charge twice as much as they would of previously.

If all games go p2w and dlc i will just go outside and get a life.

You want to kill an MMO? Go FTP with MT.

You guys obviously do not understand how mechanics work.
How much do you think this game will climb in population with free to play?
Will it surpass the 40,000 lost in the eve fires? Are you legit in telling me that eves population
will peak above 110-120,000 online with it being free to play?

Where did you guys get logic from?

You realize if more people join, more people consume, and more people die right?
You realize that the economy is only going to change by a variance, and will never be
1,000,000 on everything right?

Its unbelievable that you actually think such a rediculous thing.

Just saying.

you realize in some ways i can argue that everything in this game is already pay to win (by plex buy spam)

So exactly how would CCP make money if they went free to play? Selling ships and modules in a cashshop? Possibly Skillpoints? Both of which go against everything that Eve is

Also I don't think the type of person that plays Eve is the same type of person that buys cosmetic items. How many ship skins do you have? I don't even see you wearing any clothes from the nex store either so dont give us **** about buying cosmetic items.

In my experience most people who attempt to pay to win in Eve via PLEX invariably lose the stuff they buy and end up paying for someone else, the person who took their stuff, to win.

Nes store?!