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Jenn aSide
Shinigami Miners
Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2016.08.19 12:25:52 -
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Free to play EVE doesn't work because there is nothing to "play". EVE isn't a game so much as it is a futuristic backdrop for personal interaction.
Having to pay for the experience gives the experience meaning (ALL f2p games are, by comparison, meaningless). Having to play the game to keep playing the game (PLEX) does this too (losing too many ratting/mission/mining ships in a month could equate to spending real life money for a sub or not being subbed at all). Losing something forever , like we do in EVE, stings more because we are paying in various ways to partake.
Just a general observation about the idea of making EVE f2p that pops up here all the time like paying 15 bucks for something is hard.
I've been playing EVE and visiting these forums for years, and the one thing that sticks out to me is how much EVE is like real life (probably because real life and EVE have something in common...both are overflowing with chimp descended primates...).
In this case, it's liek real life in that it displays the human need to take something that works (EVE) and make it into something that doesn't work (most standard MMOs, many that are now F2P and most which 'sunset' in a fraction of the time EVE has existed) while somehow calling that "progress". |
Jenn aSide
Shinigami Miners
Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2016.08.22 18:14:43 -
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Remiel Pollard wrote: People today don't realise how very ******* easy you have it, and they still think they're entitled to more for less.
I call that the trap of progress (progress in this case meaning as time has gone on, things have gotten cheaper and easier for people, which denies people a sense of 'context' when it comes to value)..
When i was 9 years old (1983...where has the time gone) my parents decided (after some begging on my part) to let me go to the arcade at the mall down the street from our house by myself.
Most games were a quarter and that was real money to me then, I made 10 bucks cutting a whole a yard front and back, but the ones that let you sit down were usually 50 cents. Star Wars was one of them.. I'd maybe get a whole 3 minutes of play for 50 cents before I'd invariably crash into a damn wall lol. The force was weak with my 9 year old butt.
Fast forward 33 years and 50 cents gets me 1410 minutes of game time in EVE Online yet someone EVE is so terribly expensive people are having problems paying for it.. Maybe that's part of the problem when people talk about how 'expensive' EVE is, lack of context for younger people maybe? |
Jenn aSide
Shinigami Miners
Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2016.08.22 19:00:26 -
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http://philterdesign.com/?p=609 |
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