
Sasha Nemtsov
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2016.09.04 15:03:30 -
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Dracvlad wrote:
I drink a moderate amount of wine and beer, never touch drugs, only idiots do that.
Lets try to make it easier for you however, Eve has a reputation of being a farming game for player killers, with a player base that is very focused on that gameplay, over time a lot of casual less PvP focused players have moved on and left the game and many of them are quite vocal about the issue with the game. While this will appear to many as just an adjustment of the current trial period, it is much more than that, what it does is enable a possibly large number of easy to farm players to start playing Eve, it is how they perceive this disparity between their F2P clones and those that pay which will be critical to the success or not of this attempt by CCP.
You only have to see the number of low skilled people getting ganked in T1 haulers to undestand what will go on, also in any PvP situation those Alpha clones will be very out matched by the Omega clones and after a while they will start to think hold on what is this, especially if it took them some time to make and buy the stuff they lose so easily.
Now my view is that the game is really one where player killers farm others, I rather liked testing myself in this environment, but its not for everyone as the numbers of people leaving the game have shown. CCP need new players to keep a certain level of activity and those new players will in my opinion have a significant level of turn over, I wonder just what level of people they expect to get as paying customers from this effort. Without any doubt for me what has happened is that Eve is losing people who want to play casual, that is the issue and this change will do nothing to help that..
But anyone who plays this as F2P will be a masochist and they will be telling lots of people that this game is P2W, regardless of the fact that the move by CCP is really just adjusting the trial period approach.
For me a better approach would be to reduce the cost of subscription and make it so that a player can run two accounts with 6 characters for the same price of one account for a main account, also they really need to get a handle on plex pricing.
My sub runs out on my second account tomorrow, this account October 5th, I made that decision before this change and it has nothing to do with my decision to stop playing, I can see what CCP want to do, but it smacks of desperation and I think CCP has to bite the bullet and understand that they have lost casual players for good.
Hi Dracvlad, I usually find myself disagreeing with so much that you say that I can't even be bothered to respond :) but today is different.
I only wish that EVE's reputation for attracting kill-farmers were successful in dissuading fools. Instead, Highsec is chock-full of risk-averse idiots who don't want to learn even the basics of the mechanics whereby they can be 'farmed'. Note the quotes. It's only farming from one side's perspective. If genuinely new Alpha players also take this approach then, yes, they'll probably die horribly; and so they should.
I don't know what we can do about 'casual' players. They exist, and they have every right to enjoy the game in their own way. But 'casual' shouldn't mean uncommitted. Even if you can only play 3 hours a week, it's up to you to make the most of those 3 hours - including making yourself aware of what could ruin them. But I think 'casual' describes an attitude rather than a time commitment; it's those with that attitude - Alphas and Omegas - who are likely to find themselves at the wrong end of my blasters.
Your subscription suggestion is interesting. The sub has been the same certainly since I started playing in 2013. In real terms that's an incredible reduction over time, surely? I suppose it depends where you live as to whether wages have kept pace, but I still think it's a good deal.
I wish you well for the future, and hope you'll be back Dracvlad. I agree with you that there's an air of desperation about this move by CCP, despite their having considered it for some time. It sparked 2 thoughts for me:
How long until major content expansions ('Jovian Space', 'Through the Black Hole'....) also cease to be free? They could be put behind the sort of pay wall which would only be available to Omega clones. The reaction of Alphas would be entirely predictable.
I suppose that, for we Omega folks, they could simply add an extra (fourth) character slot which was Alpha-only, for each account?
Anyway, thanks for prompting me to think a bit on a dull Sunday afternooon....
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