ptitz
State War Academy
Caldari State
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Posted - 2016.12.07 22:02:05 -
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Baby steps but honestly nowhere near enough for me. I love EvE. I have tried no less than a dozen times to really "get into" it, and have come close, sometimes spending 2 or 3 months at a time playing. But the problem with is game is the subscription model. I don't mind having to pay for the game once I'm well and truly "in" and have joined a corp that I like and really started to plumb the depths of what I want to do with the game, but this is basically WoW's "free to level 20" nonsense, wherein you really can't play the game without paying.
My problem is that I want to be able to pick this game up and put it down, and requiring a subscription model really puts that stress on my mind that I either need to get my money's worth out of it every month I pay, or I shouldn't be playing. There are a ton of free games that I'm happy putting money into, a-la hearthstone, planetside 2, and warframe to name three that I've dumped well over $200 into each. But the monthly payment on EvE just hasn't proven itself to be a valuable asset to me yet, and the fact that I can't really get in and play the way I want, with the ships and tools I want, relegates alpha clones to be far "too little" to get me to even bother.
My recommendations:
looser restrictions on what a clone can do. I want to get to level II mining, up to battlecruisers, have the ability to use ANY faction ship and weapon (seriously that restriction is just ********) and just be locked out of the really high tier content.
If you want players to jump on a free to play game, it has to feel to them like they aren't being arbitrarily restricted. The game should be essentially all access until they are well and truly hooked, which in a game with such an incredible learning curve as EvE, can take six months or more.
Essentially, Alpha clone is a slightly less restrictive form of WoW's or SWTOR's "free to play" aspects, which are just too limiting to even count.
Hell, I'd also be okay with a cheap $5/mo sub that does everything but give you access to the final tier of equipment.
I've always said that if EvE goes truly F2P I'd pick it up in a heartbeat and probably throw a lot of money at microtransactions and maybe one of the "premium" subscriptions once I'm deeper in the game, but as it stands, I've tried over and over to get past that "hump", but the anxiety of having to learn a game as daunting as this combined with the subscription fee has always created too much of an artificial hurdle. |