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Davina Braben
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Posted - 2008.10.19 04:56:00 -
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This irritates me.
The announcement irritates me because it's full of twaddle.
Balance? DB load? Reaaalllly?
The spirit this was done in irritates me because basically CCP have noticed a bunch of people unsubbing because of money worries and this is the kneejerk to get people to stay subbed.
I suspect this is why the GTCs only come in 60 day flavour now too.
The logic of this irritates me because I very much suspect that unsubbed training was a really good mechanism to keep people coming back after time away and to get them to run more than one account (which is, lets not forget, a recurring theme with the marketing).
Lets not forget the WoW expansion 
Haven't done a survey but anecdotally I am inclined towards the belief that this measure will decrease revenue overall because an alt account subbed every 2/3 months > an alt account subbed not at all and a main account lapsed for a month or three then resubbed > a main account unsubbed.
Some money (even less than what you might regard as full selling price) > No money.
Maybe I'm wrong and checking the calendar against the skill end dates is tremendous server load costing CCP every bit of the subscription fee to manage and maybe this will have no impact on their revenue. 
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Davina Braben
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Posted - 2008.10.19 05:15:00 -
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Edited by: Davina Braben on 19/10/2008 05:15:26
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CCP suck
It could be worse. You could play a SOE game.
They're not that bad.
I just don't think this is going to do what they're hoping it will.
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Davina Braben
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Posted - 2008.10.19 08:30:00 -
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I found this logic impeccable (posted by someone else, somewhere else):
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. The game, at certain times, became very ****ing boring. Everyone knows the feeling. Eve gets a bit shit and you fancy taking a month off so you stick a long skill on in case it gets interesting again. Throw in summers, christmases and a couple of boredom times and hey presto the biggest time sink in the game has just disappeared.
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Davina Braben
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Posted - 2008.10.20 02:26:00 -
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Edited by: Davina Braben on 20/10/2008 02:27:52
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Fact is, CCP did not have to give any reasons whatsoever to remove this freebie. None. After all, playing this game (or even paying for it!) is completely optional, anyone can leave at any time. The fact that CCP is giving you the privilege to vent your angst on their forums is commendable, and is much more than most other commercial enterprises would allow.
Have to <> Should.
Customer goodwill is very important, especially for a company in the MMO business.
They aren't selling us sprockets or widgets here. They're providing a service.
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Another fact is that the reasons that were given are good enough for any reasonable adult. If you feel those reasons are wrong, and there are others much more to your liking, that is your personal problem. Draw your own conclusions and move on.
It is only a fact in the sense that you believe it to be true.
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Something believed to be true or real: a document laced with mistaken facts.
Clearly the reasons they gave are not "good enough" for any "reasonable adult" or this would have been a much shorter, much more congratulatory thread.
Most of the reasons they gave made little or no sense and smacked of the most obfuscated PR bullshittery imaginable.
Fibbing to the customer makes them cranky and argumentative.
I'd guess that the same announcement minus the bullshit and plus a week or a fortnight's grace period ("Guys, the economy has gone **** up and we really need every penny of subscription revenue at the moment because Gordon Brown stole our servers in London so as of the 22nd...") would have gotten a much less hostile response.
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Davina Braben
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Posted - 2008.10.21 13:32:00 -
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There's a couple of threads in Assembly Hall you should be voting in.
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Davina Braben
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Posted - 2008.10.21 17:44:00 -
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Interview with Torfri:
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/14/feature/2349/Ghost-Training-Interview
Highlights:
Repeats that it was simple oversight that we all thought this was a feature but CCP thought it was a bug.
Affirms that they had the opportunity to remove it earlier but didn't bother (is this true? Was there an earlier Sisi patch and a hullaballoo that resulted in them not bothering?).
Thinks this will have no impact on returning customers.
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