Roenok Baalnorn
Sadistically Sinister
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Posted - 2016.05.17 14:09:10 -
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Juicy Aivo wrote:Hey folks, this has been bothering me for a while. It has been 9 years and 6 months since i had first logged onto TQ. It was amazing, so many 24k players online at the peak EU TZ. However since then things gone from bad to worse for EVE online in making new players because after all these years at the very same hour (15;30 12/05/2016) it is the same 24k players online.
Just 1 thing, me same as many others now has more than 1 acc. Which makes significant loss of actual players/bodies not ALTs. Where did you (EVE sales department guys) go WRONG with trying to attract more bodies into the game??? I know there will be hates of this post but consider this, if eve online had 500k players they could REDUCE price per month by 5x or 10x. However they chose to do NOTHING and makes us all pay every month the same amount of money as you were buying a new game every month or even more. This even makes me to consider leave this game because they are ripping us off!
I have been playing since 2008 and i remember back in 2009-2010 players saying "there was 23k people on today and thats the most there ever has been" . Last i saw, Eve went from around 50k subs when it first started to over 500k . It has went up almost every single year except when they brought out those crappy sov mechanics that replaced POS bashing. It actually drops for a couple of years then if i recall from the graph. Another trend i have noticed is when i first started playing, it was common to have players that played for 4-8 hours a day every single day. If you told an alliance then you play 10-15 hours a week, they were like yeah you arent active enough. That has shifted to the average player playing 10-20 hours in a week a couple of hours at a time many days.
Cost wise...
-Eve cost $15 an month if this causes you hardship you should seriously rethink your priorities. - You get access to all content for $15. No content is off limit like so called "free games" Everyone is on the same playing field, rich people ( or those that spend money stupidly) do not have an advantage. For comparison to "cheaper subs" you have: 1) The best customer support of any game ive ever played( and ive been playing online games for 20 years) and in many cases best of companies in general. Wont find this in cheaper games and its non existent in free games. 2) Constant patches and fixes. Far more than you will find in most games. 3) Free xpacks. Many games make you pay for the xpacks. 4) CCP uses cutting edge technology in their game to the point of developing or having it developed for them exclusively. They use modern servers. Your not playing on some broken down server from 2004. Its the alienware of servers. 5) CCP puts a majority of their revenue back into the game in R&D, features, and operations. Id rather them spend my money to make my game better rather than spend it on advertising to get a few hundred more players. Other games spend a majority of their money on profits and advertising. Very little actually goes back into the game. So updates to their games are put together very sloppy and often unbalanced and are rarely fixed. Other devs make xpacks to generate more revenue, CCP makes xpacks to generate more content which leads to #6. 6) CCP cares what its players want. It constantly engages players and consults players on ideas, what features they want to see and which they dont. Eve content is truly player driven in all forms. -If the price was lowered or free, i would have to play with a bunch of immature children. I dont want to be in fleet with 10 year olds who think they are god because they got a shiny new ship. If i wanted to play with children, i would get on facebook games. - CCP caters to a very niche market. They arent trying to be the WOW of space. They arent trying to be like anyone. They are looking for a certain type of player that likes hardcore games that require ingenuity and creativeness to use a toolset in an almost completely player controlled environment. - Eve's player base is very loyal. They might complain, but no more than players from other games. Eve is a game many players take a break from for a few months or a year and the come back for a while and then another break. I cant say the same for the other games ive played. Once you decide to quit those games, you have a very low chance of returning to them.
- And the big one. It is not only possible to play eve for free but its quite easy. If im trying, i can make enough for a plex( at 1 bil isk) in about 12-15 hours of gameplay.
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