1Ekrid1
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Posted - 2010.07.01 18:21:00 -
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Edited by: 1Ekrid1 on 01/07/2010 18:25:36
Originally by: Black Dranzer The people screaming on the forums about how they're going to leave are your die hard fans. They love you. Which brings me neatly to my next point.
Wrong. they do in fact leave, or at least stop paying. think about this; CCP forums are off limits unless you have an active account. This number one rule eliminates people from posting to say what their problem is, if they dont have an account that is paid for, even if they were players in the past. Maybe, just maybe, accounts that have been activated and paid for, but are not currently subscribed, could be limited to 2 posts per week, so they can give feedback.. Even then, people might not use that advantage because, like you said, they are fed up with something and they probably cant be bothered to find whatever method of contacting CCP outside of the forums that might actually reach developers. The forum, if you complain there might be other people to support you and that might actually do something. Otherwise, its like anonymous voting, a time waste. an active account is payed for by month, two months, whatever. Someone might have paid for a month, finally got fed up, and have 20 days left and be able to use the forum to say why they've given up. Someone might have 2 months left because of GTC, that doesnt mean they will resub. Someone might have longer, even. Unless you've actually tracked "people who leave", and proven this, you're just speaking out your two cheeks in your chair.
Just because their desire to keep playing has decreased to below their desire to keep paying, doesnt mean they dont use eve online until the sub runs out. some people have friends in the game. some people want to blow all their ISK on ships to go suicide ganking or go crazy in lowsec.
When the (desire to play/desire to pay) is still at or above 1, they will play and resub. WHen it drops below 1, they have account time left to use as they please, but won't resub. I know its elusive to understand. There's 1, repeat 1, frigate in the T1 lineup designed to be a suicide tackler. the rest are for COMBAT. so don't tell me to tackle when I'm in a combat T1 frig. OR tell CCP to fix their mess. |