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I think it is time
Starbuck1771
Member UncommonPosts: 375
in EVE Online
That EVE goes F2P. Get fresh blood in the game after all why should Dust be free if we are not. On top of that the game is a decade old and has become to repeatative. If they go the same way that Rift did they could make a fortune. Just in the past three days alone I have spent $120.00 on Rift.
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RIP Ribbitribbitt you are missed, kid.
Currently Playing EVE, ESO
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.
Dwight D Eisenhower
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
Henry Rollins
You do know that if you earn enough in game currency - isk, that you can then trade in for a Plex within the game, and a Plex is bascically a pre-paid one month subscription.
So you earn in game currency, then buy a Plex off the market (Auction House) and boom you have your one month paid for.
Meaning you never have to spend any real world money to play the game.
"I understand that if I hear any more words come pouring out of your **** mouth, Ill have to eat every fucking chicken in this room."
DUST 514 works as f2p because it's content exclusively involves killing other players.
Eve is much more than just killing other players and f2p would create havoc on those parts of the game.
Also, as other people have pointed out there's already a f2p element in eve in the form of plex.
I found this thread amusing as i just finished reading this assumed re-posted article about EVE F2P, guessing it was from April fools.
http://sandboxer.org/?p=4314
EVE won't work free.
Not to mention it can only support 100K online with the servers they have now. This idea EVE needs more people is a misconception. EVE is fine where it is.
They do that anyway, 50,000 players and half are free trials. (Oh the same 50k for the guy that thinks subs go up each year).
The only players that stay are heavily invested in it. Go to any high sec starter system, it and the systems around it are crawling with 8/10 trial players (which is another sore point, they shouldn't get to mine ore - but thats for another day!).
Add to it that "free trials" screams "please come play this, we need your money!" and F2P may be on the cards, esp. with the new EA signing... POS only $20! lol
No trials. No tricks. No traps. No EU-RP server. NO THANKS!
...10% Benevolence, 90% Arrogance in my case!
CCP have never included free trials in their subscription numbers.
EVE has over 500k subs, split about 90:10 between "real" EVE and "chinese" EVE, and it's growing quite nicely thank you.
Give me liberty or give me lasers
No trials. No tricks. No traps. No EU-RP server. NO THANKS!
...10% Benevolence, 90% Arrogance in my case!
There is not one bit of truth in any of what you typed except "the only players that stay are heavily invested in it"; which makes me wonder whether that's what you meant to type or did you mean something else? Because that line is self evident since you wouldn't expect a person to stay if they didn't feel they had a stake in the game.
At anyone time CCP will admit that approx 5% of all players in eve are trial, so on an average sunday night of 60k players about 3k of them will be in the 21day trial.
In terms of the OP EvE will never go down the F2P route because it has a working model, why would any game who increase subs year on year (regardless of where them subs come from be it existing more accounts or new accounts, more is more) - Fact is its more likely a case of, wake up one day goto log on to get message "sorry eve is dead".. than going F2P
This post is all my opinion, but I welcome debate on anything i have put, however, personal slander / name calling belongs in game
where of course you're welcome to call me names im often found lounging about in EvE online.
Use this code for 21days trial in eve online https://secure.eveonline.com/trial/?invc=d385aff2-794a-44a4-96f1-3967ccf6d720&action=buddy
CCP already make a fortune on PLEX. Why would they throw away all their subscription income (which is rising) and all the PLEX income, and commit to the huge development project that it would require to change EVE enough to implement "real" F2P, and see a huge percentage of their current playerbase simply leave?
Changing to F2P is for subscription games that are dying. EVE is growing.
Give me liberty or give me lasers
so the OP's argument for EvE going free-to-play is that it is 10 years old and become to (sic) repetitive.
Not very convincing as this formula, if it can be called such, has led to EvE steadily increasing subs over the last 10 years.
I sometimes make spelling and grammar errors but I don't pretend it's because I'm using a phone
EvE is free, only need pay monthly sub , players can use ingame currency (ISK) for sub !
Personal , I am never use plex,coz I suporting CCP with $$$$ for only real mmo on market.
With CCP hiring the EA pay to win guy as head of product development I am afraid the OP may well be right.
Unsubbing last account.
F2P/P2P excellent thread.
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/282517/F2P-An-Engineers-perspective.html
F2P may be the way of the future, but ya know they dont make them like they used to
Proper Grammer & spelling are extra, corrections will be LOL at.
The "Greed is Good" incident along with the 80 euro monacles?
Edit: Yes Jita burned and CCP said they wouldn't dream of it, but time again CCP's promises have not matched their actions.
F2P/P2P excellent thread.
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/282517/F2P-An-Engineers-perspective.html
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/03/eve-producer-f2p-converts-were-failing-subs-still-viable/
One year later and CCP hires a guy from EA that specializes in F2P.
PLEX is a step torward F2P. Look at Rift it has REX. Clearly by CCP's own admission they have been trying to convert to F2P but have failed time and again. However now CCP has Sean Decker.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=254876