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Posted - 2017.03.31 09:53:34 -
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Dr Missy wrote:Feracitus wrote: Since plex now comes in fractions, would be cool if we could also purchase game time in fractions, instead of sinking 1b at a time, specially for people that play sporadically, purchasing smaller bit sized chunks of game time would be much better. There is a no financial incentive to do that (and if I were to guess, I would think a large loss... potentially a large number of people would only "sub" the few hours they play a week
Of cause there is a financial incentive. You charge more per day if they buy in smaller chunks than if they buy in longer ones - CCP already does it with month-year subscriptions, you just extend the logic further.
Also, this is not even an experiment, this is how gold functions in tank games that are out there. They make crazy profit btw, more per month than CCP has made in its entire existence.
The power of micro-transactions is in their seductiveness and mass appeal. CCP does not get it at all, and generally have trouble monetizing. Consider titan skins and how much ccp charges for them, as opposed to frigate skins and how much ccp charges for them. How many titan pilots are there in eve? How much $ will ccp make if every single titan pilot buys every single titan skin ever made? Will it ever pay for dev time? I mean some graphic artist worked on it, and then on the pictures for it in the store. All to make ccp 1000$.
CCP is worried people will spend money to light cinos. This is nut. If someone want to give ccp 3$ to light a cino why not? Can you imagine how many of them get lit every day?
Someone will go omega for an evening to go pvp in 0.0 - now thats the worst that can happen? CCP gets money and you get content as you get to shoot at them or be shot by them.
Ill keep going with a rant :) Alpha clones - why do they train at half speed? Seriously, wouldn't you want the player to reach the maximum skills on alpha and want to fly a better ship and subscribe and thus give ccp money? Training faster is not an incentive
if there is an upper limit on skills, and there is a limit for alphas. if anything you want alphas to train FASTER so a new player can get to the limit and start doing cool things int he game and feel like alpha isn't enough for them. Lets say you get a new player at 1 million sp to go Omega for one month, that all you will get since he still cant fly anything cool, they still have to learn all the same alpha skills.
On the plus side this breaking down of plex I think is CCPs first serious step to try to get people to spend the plex on little stuff. Because if even a fraction of the plex that is already in the game gets used for subscription time CCP will go bankrupt, yes ccp got money for those plex, but that was yesterday, now they are IOUs for services to be rendered. |