Tinitras
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Posted - 2008.06.24 23:32:00 -
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 Originally by: DarcKry2
OK here is my thought which you can take that and $.50 and buy a can of coke well maybe $1.25 due to inflation. The way I see it is yes CCP has a cost of keeping their server up and yes prices are going up everywhere I agree on that. Lets look at this for a minute. The more prices raise the less people play Right? Ok now the less people play the more the company has to raise prices to be able to stay afloat. Follow me so far. Would it not help CCP's wallet out if they lowered the price so more and more people could play and thus by volume of sales decrease their overhead. If you sit back and look at the whole economy when people can't afford to play because of other commitments then who will be the one to fall due to a huge drop in customers? CCP will! Lets do this if CCP will just try to lower prices on the game play and GTC's for about 3 months then watch their amount of gamers pick up by about 25% to 30%. That is just my $.02 worth. What do you all think?
I think people do not play EVE for many other reasons rather than cost. I have never heard anyone state that the did not open an EVE account because it costs $15 a month, ever. I have heard people complain about it being boring, slow-paced, too confusing and difficult, too risky to be enjoyable, etc. From this follows that if CCP drops subscription fee to $10 you will NOT see an automatic 20% rise in subscription numbers. As for people owning multiple accounts, less than a quarter of players do that and most of these 22-23% or so have just 2 accounts and are not going to open 3rd if fee drops to $10 because each account requires additional play time and in my experience is generally a big hassle.
CCP probably has some employees that evaluate the market and optimize profits for them. These people have calculated that CCP will make more profit by raising GTC prices to $34 and elimitating 30/90 day codes. Also note that this change does not affect majority of playerbase - subscription costs through the website if you pay with a credit card have remained the same as always, 12-15 dollars or euros a month. Yes there will be a few people closing accounts because of this change just like always, players closing their accounts because they got suicide ganked, scammed, podded with a snake set, or because they got bored with 0.0 POS warfare, and so on and so on ... but whoever optimizes profit for CCP has concluded that overall the number of accounts lost won't decrease the overall revenue.
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