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Slavyn Liko wrote:I personally like the non-recurring payment options of PO as apposed to say EVE. Reason being, I dont have a job and even 9.95 sometimes is difficult for me to come up with especially when rent and bills are due. So having the non-recurring billing allows me to say this month sub up for a month but next month when funds are less tight I could sub up for longer and so on...
I can understand this, but make it a option.
I used to pay for one of my EVE accounts with GTCs from Shattered Crystal but then I moved to monthly subscription on my CC because its more convenient. You can be pretty sure: When there is a CTA and you rush from work home to get in fleet, most probably your account just ran out, you have to buy a code, redeem it and the website is currently very laggy. I´m pretty sure, a lot of people would appreciate the comfort and a permanet flow of extension points and if it ends in a 5% higher monthly income, its ok.
Of course someone can buy a code for a month or a whole year, but that can burn a hole in your pocket in this month, even if you have no problem paying the regular montly fee.
Shadowfly wrote:So, how about a companion bot called "Hilmar", made by CCP Corp. It has no purpose other than to occassionally accept NIC from you. Every once in awhile, it asks for a big jump in NIC and then makes for the nearest cliff and jumps off, wrecking itself while chatting about this is what you really want.
ROFL, I love it! I would even pay MTs for this 
:P
BTW, should you need more money: introduce recurring fees instead of MT. They are absolutely common in this industry
I can imagine there are a lot of casual gamers who don´t play every day. Their subscriptions runs out and several days pass until they buy their nex code. So you get perhaps only every 35-40 days their 8.95 EUR.
And the everyday players don´t need to care about going into your shop and redeeming a code every month
Tag wrote:Tarantoga wrote:A very nice idea would be to allow people to make their own robot skins and upload it on the server for cash. They get a BPO, can sell it to other people for NIC, can share it with their corp and it depends on the artistic skills of the people to have a great skin, not on RL-money alone.
Then again, why the RMT ? Why such an option wouldn't be implemented as part of the game, as well as other gameplay features ?
I dont get it.
IMHO it would be one of the few legitimate uses of RMT:
- The skins must be transferred to all clients. So once a day/week an update is necessery what consumes manpower. Or you transfer them while playing what causes more traffic and lag. This wouldn´t work in EVE with 50k players in one shard but with 500-1000 there should be no problems
- You really don´t want every 12-year old with MS-paint to spam the Perp-Community with his "artworks" of pink ***. And if he does, let him at least give a lot of money to the company that runs the game, so we get quick servers and a good support for the cost of a little eye-cancer.
- This feature would implement a possibility of earning extra NIC ingame as a "paintjob designer". I have no problem if it costs a little fee, as long as the price stays reasonable.
A very nice idea would be to allow people to make their own robot skins and upload it on the server for cash. They get a BPO, can sell it to other people for NIC, can share it with their corp and it depends on the artistic skills of the people to have a great skin, not on RL-money alone.
Panthera wrote:Arga wrote:My guess is CCP will make a course correction and may pull some of the bittervets back
I doubt it, from a purely business point of view. They are currently burning $8.5 million in cash per year due to Dust and possibly WoD development.
Their problem isn´t burning the money itself. As soon as Dust is released their situation should be a lot better.
They have to pay a loan back in september or october and they don´t have enough money to give it back and pay their other stuff. So they need someone to give them another loan. To look trustworthy they wanted to demonstrate that they have developed other ways of earning money (Microtransactions. Well, banks only give you loans when you can prove that you don´t need them 
).
They failed to demonstrate that and they managed to lose subscriptions worth another million a year. So every bank will only tell them "GTFO ***"
I wouldn´t worry to much. These are plans, not implemented features. And it was planned before we n-tupled their playerbase.
The Perp-dev are in a quite comfortable situation that they can watch CCP how well it works. Of course they have been looking for new ways to earn money to keep their company going (I don´t think they are having huge profits ATM), but I hope we EVE-ragequitters have flushed some income into their wallets. So the need for new money shouldn´t be so urgent now. If we stay here for longer, they surely don´t want to alienate us with half-baked-plans.
I´m pretty sure, the new robot paintjobs can be sold with NIC too. 
Jita is clogged, too 
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