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Re: Bring back the Trial

Kaldenines wrote:
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Kaldenines wrote:

+1

Although maybe keep them off beta/gamma, we don't want people using trial accounts as walking probes.

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Though it would prevent that, It would also prevent these peeps from being able to try out beta PvP and see what PvP ingame is like.

Have you seen any 7 day old character die or get kills on beta? If so I would love to see that killmail.

Sure, you make it sound like it did not ever happen. but its not hard at all to take a day or 2 to do a few missions and buy yourself a light robot and take a shot at running solo.

Some even get into a corp and pew during their trial, I know I did http://www.perp-kill.net/kill/248879

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27 Reply by Tedris (edited by Tedris 2014-05-06 17:40:28)

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DEV Gargaj wrote:

BoyC already answered this in one of the Steam threads:

With the recent change away from the subscription model we also disabled free trials for the time being. This is because we expect a big traffic surge after the Steam launch. A free trial would make the load spike worse. Once we're confident the service is up and running properly we'll look into the option of a demo mode again.

(Sidenote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QM6LoaqEnY)

Can you provide us with a statistic of steam sales and population increase compared to pre-steam population?

Furthermore: What are the plans to increase sales? What is the plan with perp in general? Where do you see it in 1 year, 2 years , etc.?

It just seems like you are trying to max out the sales and then put it in maintenace mode.

Edit: I somehow get (even not fully) your point why you dont release a trial anytime soon. Why not release a video series of Perpetuum on your Youtube Channel, covering the Tutorial and comment it. Then a final Video of the series will show players what they can do with a full account. That way, you dont have to release a trial to drag potential customers in, you only need to show them well explained gameplay.

Such a series, if planned properly, can be done in one single day and barely costs a thing, but would provide a more in depth look at the game for interested players.

28 Reply by BandwagonX9000 (edited by BandwagonX9000 2014-05-06 19:51:44)

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Trial queue. If server has more than N players, trial servers cannot connect and have to sit on their own queue. There, I fixed you server capacity issue. That is if that was the reason why you didn't want trials for the time being.