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CaptainOkuna
Caldari
Rionnag Alba
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.10.22 18:42:00 -
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Bad move CCP.
I won't be quitting. But my 6 accounts will become 2 very shortly, 2 down already.
I will be keeping all my trained chars, after all it isnt as if CCP are removing the sp's earnt to make it fair as they say they are. They will be transferred to spare slots on the 2 accounts still active.
I would say even with the accounts I mainly ghost trained with, I was still paying for 8 months out of 12.
So you have gone from getting ($17.50 x 6) x 0.66 from me = $69 (thats conservative as 2 accounts are permanently active) to getting $17.50 x 2 = $35
I dont pay for any of my accounts with isk as I am too lazy, so that is a direct hit to your figures. Classic business strategy.
After the debacles of the last year (Boot.ini killed my last PC permanently, GTC price hikes combined with dollar rates going down), this is just laughable. I am not going to say I will quit the game completely. But it is making such future releases such as Black Prophecy and Jump Gate Evolution look more and more tantalising.
I'll be accused of being a left-wing radical, a right-wing oppressor and a libertarian libertine.
I'll plead guilty to all of the above.
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CaptainOkuna
Caldari
Rionnag Alba
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.10.22 21:07:00 -
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Edited by: CaptainOkuna on 22/10/2008 21:11:47
I do wonder how many of the 240k accounts are actually alt accounts; it will be interesting to see how the subscriber numbers change after this.
On a side note is there a way to actually delete an account? I wouldn't want CCP to use an inactive account with no toons on it as one of their 240k accounts to show how their latest nerf has boosted subscriber numbers.
PS. Quoted for posterity:
 Originally by: Locke Diedrake
I have an alt, with a 35 day skill training going, if I don't pay for it this month, while the account is inactive will the skill training still run?
I have no use for the alt until such time as the skills are done, and money is tight this month. Originally by: Wrangler
Characters are not deleted, since it doesn't take up much server space anyway. Technically there's only a 6 month guarantee though, but people have come back after more than a year of absence to find their character just the way they left it.
And yes, skill training continues even if your account is deactivated. 
Wrangler
Assistant Community Manager
EVE Online
I'll be accused of being a left-wing radical, a right-wing oppressor and a libertarian libertine.
I'll plead guilty to all of the above.
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CaptainOkuna
Caldari
Rionnag Alba
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.10.22 22:34:00 -
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Originally by: Vama Mapri
Well seeing as it's fair for them to say you can't train unless you've paid, shouldn't it also be fair for us to say we shouldn't get billed unless were actually in-game and using their equipement/servers ?
Same principal but because it doesn't benefit them it won't happen........
If they truley wanted to make it 'fair' they would make it so that only logged in accounts would train.
Unfortunately they have made it so that those who can afford to run multiple unused accounts pay for it. For those who can't (not me) tough luck.
Fairness is not why they made this decision. Money is.
I'll be accused of being a left-wing radical, a right-wing oppressor and a libertarian libertine.
I'll plead guilty to all of the above.
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CaptainOkuna
Caldari
Rionnag Alba
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.10.23 12:35:00 -
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Originally by: fecked
On the issue of when will these changes be seen and by who I think log in numbers are unlikely to change dramatically. New players will still be creating new accounts so numbers will stay steady. Also remember that the effects of cancellations will only be felt as accounts expire over the coming months, many players pay in blocks of multiple months. It is likely that the impact of cancellations will really only become apparent in December and January.
Something just became a lot clearer to me.
CCP are clearly hoping their christmas patch will entice people to stay/not cancel/come back... I highly doubt that timing can be coincidental that almost exactly 2 months after this change their new 'expansion' will be released to entice people back.
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CaptainOkuna
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Posted - 2008.10.25 07:51:00 -
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Originally by: Rasik Argimater
Stuff
QFT.
The thing is having publicized the 'bug' they will never change their mind 'abuse' would be rife.
Whne I started this game CCP were something different in the MMO community; they're just another gaming manufacturer now. |
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