Tac Ginaz
The Righteous Few
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Posted - 2008.10.14 17:56:00 -
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Edited by: Tac Ginaz on 14/10/2008 18:00:59
A quick look at some numbers from my end only.
I have only 2 accounts. One is my fighting character the other my trade character.
I rarely log my trade character in as it is just to make market orders and haul stuff in the freighter.
This trader character is ghost-trained. One month I sub, the other month I do not as the 31+ day train skill is just silly to pay for in an account that doesnt even undock for most of its existence. Repeat.
12 months of a year I pay 6 for the trade char. The fighting account is subbed the whole 12 months.
Assuming easy number of $12 per month per account.
Fighting char: $144 a year
Trade Char: $72
Total: $216
Now, after this change, I have no reason at all to keep my trader account active at any time of the year. So it will not be resubbed but rather, I'll cut my losses and transfer the character to my fighting account and just use it as a trade char.
So now, CCP loses on $72 and only receives a one time fee of $20 as I move my trader toon into the fighting account.
I will still make the same amount of isk in the game, just that I may not be able to ever fly the jump freighter I was ghost training the trader for. *shrug* c'est la vie.
Estimating about 20,000 accounts in the game who hold dual or triple+ accounts.. look at the losses CCP is looking at now as most of those 20k dual+ account holders are doing the same thing I am:
20,000 active (full time): 240,000 USD
20,000 semi-active accts (half-time): 120,000 USD
Loss caused by the cancel of the half-time accts.. wow look at that. 120 grand.
So, seriously CCP.. is the 'issues with database' really causing you a loss of $120k USD a year?
Or... did you really believe the playerbase would simply sub year-long their semi-active accounts and increase your revenue?
That's naive and incredibly short sighted. Sadly, after looking at your track record of monumentally unwise decisions and policies over the years I really believe you folks thought this would happen.
On the other hand, if you guys would've fixed the issue of unsubbed accounts having market orders active and paying maintainance on offices and such.. THAT would have been received with a much better response.
It really is silly that when I went overseas for a couple of years I had my trade character holding an office in a station with really big sale orders (quantity). Came back two years later.. It still held the office and corp name/CEO status and all my stuff was sold with a really big profit.
THAT is an issue.
Non-active accounts should not receive nor give out isk. Skill training I say is a good feature as long as the player needs to resub every other month to set new skill (its revenue for CCP) and it does not affect the game economy. But leaving a non-paying account still affecting the market is an issue.
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