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Meeko Fent
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Posted - 2013.07.11 17:55:00 -
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EVE Time Cards.
Yes, My troll friends, I could just go to the Internet ETC stores, but then whats the difference between them and buying tme from CCP?
I've heard that ETC used to be sold in stores, but the Cards were Discontinued.
Just, a question, but, if you Sell boxes of EVE in Gamestops, why not sell Time cards?
Your already distributing the Game online!
You could Discontinue the Boxed Games, and Sell Time Cards there.
Cant you fit more little Plastic cards in a Cargo Container as opposed to large boxed sets?
I would appreciate CCP replying on this, in some way shape or form.
Please?
tl;dr
Bring Back ETC in stores.
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Posted - 2013.07.11 17:58:00 -
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Judy Maat wrote:wrong forum How so?
If you Look at the top Left corner, you'll see my reasoning... |
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Posted - 2013.07.11 18:12:00 -
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DR88VIPER Starrunner wrote:why the **** would u wanna go out to a store get a card pay for it go back home scratch it and then continue playing online ?? if u could simply alt tab or go to second screen and order one online ???or better pay with isk and get game time ingame
Because, my friend, I don't wanna use my Debit/Credit Card.
How many people do you think go into Gamestop everyday?
Maybe a dozen a Day.
Now, Multiply that by all the Gamestops.
a Large amount of exposure to the masses.
Its like Adverts on TV, Online, or On the Stores window.
Only you don't have to pay for it.
In fact, this Advert Pays you.
This suggestion is as much as a Help for CCPs main money maker as it is for our convenience, for those not wanting to use a Credit/Debit card. |
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Posted - 2013.07.11 18:17:00 -
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bolsh lee wrote:I know its easier said then done to merge the EVE and Dust economy but CCP would make a killing on ETC if this was the case who-áwouldn't-ápay $30 for a billion isk... Sure it would make risk vs reward and PC meaningless and all that jazz but **** there are Dust corps and even some players running around with a few billion already and now with player to player transfer that isk is gonna start moving around quick.. No, I mean that Cards, similar to Gift Cards, in stores.
It could be like PLEX.
But that is a CCP Oversight.
All I want is a Card that I can just Pedal my ass to Gamestop, grab a Card, and Pedal my ass back.
I've tried the Trial in EVE, and I Like it a lot, and if these come out, Ima Make a EVE character with the Same Name as this one |
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Posted - 2013.07.11 18:18:00 -
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Atlas Pillar wrote:Maybe this should be on the EVE forums? Anyway, I don't care. Bump My Trial ran Out.
Can't post on the forums with a Trial Anyway, I don't think. |
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Posted - 2013.07.11 18:22:00 -
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Yep.
Same Here. |
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Posted - 2013.07.11 18:27:00 -
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BAMP!
I will continue to Bamp this thread till a CPM/Dev/GM Response Appears. |
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Posted - 2013.07.11 19:08:00 -
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Chunky Munkey wrote:Meeko Fent wrote:Judy Maat wrote:wrong forum How so? If you Look at the top Left corner, you'll see my reasoning... You'll notice in that corner, that the Dust logo is bigger than the Eve logo. What do you think pays more for DUST?
100,000x15=1.5 Million Dollars a Month.
Don't you think that a Little tiny bit is going towards DUSTs devs? |
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Posted - 2013.07.11 20:00:00 -
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Bamp for Dev Post. |
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Posted - 2013.07.11 20:00:00 -
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Double Bamp for CPM Post |
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Posted - 2013.07.11 20:33:00 -
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You know, I will not let this be drowned to the 2nd page until I have an Answer to my question.
They only way I'm letting this get frowned to the 2nd page is if the Forum gets locked! |
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Posted - 2013.07.11 20:40:00 -
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Killar-12 wrote:I would love this make Plexes on cards... awesome That's what I want.
So one could go to the store, and grab a PLEX and keep playing EVE. |
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Posted - 2013.07.11 21:20:00 -
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Bamp. |
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Posted - 2013.07.11 22:33:00 -
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Crash Monster wrote:I hope they ban you for bumping this stupid thread continously... it's on the wrong site never mind the wrong forum area. Where would you like it to be posted?
You cant Post on the EVE forums with a Trial Account.
And if your going to say get a EVE account, why do you think that I am suggesting this?
Cause I have a EVE account and are Happy with using Debit Card, but I am suggesting it so I don't have to use the Debit card?
Hmm...
Intriguing thoughts. |
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Posted - 2013.07.11 22:40:00 -
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Maken Tosch wrote:You do realize you can buy plex with ISK, right? Yes, but I don't have the Time to earn 550 Mil ISK on a Trial account, Every month.
I'm fine with paying, I just want to do it with Hard Cash.
EDIT: and I don't doubt that there are More people who will want to Hard Cash as well |
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Posted - 2013.07.11 22:54:00 -
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Killar-12 wrote:Meeko Fent wrote:Maken Tosch wrote:You do realize you can buy plex with ISK, right? Yes, but I don't have the Time to earn 550 Mil ISK on a Trial account, Every month. I'm fine with paying, I just want to do it with Hard Cash. EDIT: and I don't doubt that there are More people who will want to Hard Cash as well I like Cash too it's tangible and is there not like credit and online purchases. I Just want to Know Why those Online ETC store have them?
If I want ETC I would go to CCP and buy a PLEX, not buy a ETC from some Website.
And, as I said, Hard Copies of ETC/PLEX would be free Adverts, and could get some people to buy a PLEX on impulse, and they find themselves liking the Game, and Voila, a New Paying Customer. |
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Posted - 2013.07.11 23:41:00 -
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Maken Tosch wrote:Ever heard of Green Dot cards? Just ask a Walgreens or CVS clerk about it. Just googled it.
Yes, those are ways to pay, but a simple, straight forward way to pay Hard cash for GT would allow those, like myself, who don't know about the roundabout ways, to buy GT with no hassle, no trouble, and again, Its Free Advertising.
In right there for you buy, in the place you go to buy things.
Two Reasons that The Cards are Feasible.
One. Your Already Sending boxed sets of EVE overseas, and by replacing the Large Boxes with small Cards, you save space, and therefore, you could have way more Money made in each Box sent.
Two. You don't have to distribute the Game in Boxed Sets at all anymore, considering that your already distributing EVE online for the Most part. Just Put on the Card "Get The Client Online" So those who might not know that they Give EVE out online know where to get it. |
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Posted - 2013.07.11 23:53:00 -
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Faq. |
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Posted - 2013.07.12 00:01:00 -
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So Much for the Mystical 7 Folds....
Well, at least until the End of the Dollar, People are going to use it.
What Im saying is, is that the Boxed Disc Sets they Send out could be replaced with the ETCs, and they would Make more Money per Box.
Its an Option to use hard Cash.
Not Saying, Delete the Option to Subscribe from your Website, or anything like that.
Just swap the Needless Discs with Time Cards. |
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Posted - 2013.07.12 00:49:00 -
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Disturbingly Bored wrote:Meeko Fent wrote: Ima Make a EVE character with the Same Name as this one Off topic, but you can't do that. If you could, I'd be Seriously Bored, and not Disturbed. Not if I delete this character and give his money to an alt. |
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Posted - 2013.07.12 02:07:00 -
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I'll just delete this little guy and give his iskies to an alt, and that alt will give his iskies to me later in DUST, once EVE to DUST isk transfers come. |
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Posted - 2013.07.12 15:13:00 -
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BAMP.
I am a Necromancer!
Fear me and all you previous lives!
I'd have a small army just from my prior lives... |
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Posted - 2013.07.12 15:42:00 -
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Darn, my last spell failed, so ill retry...
*reaches arms out towards dead heavy* IT LIVES!
But seriously, nobody else thinks this would be a nice convenience to get ETCs? |
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Posted - 2013.07.14 13:43:00 -
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Yes, Delta, you can do that.
But this is a suggestion to simplify the ETC purchasing experience. |
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Posted - 2013.07.14 14:16:00 -
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Indeed. |
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Posted - 2013.07.14 14:23:00 -
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^^ this, my troll/captain obvious friend. |
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Posted - 2013.07.14 14:34:00 -
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You don't get it, why do you not want physical ETC?
I understand that you can get a prepaid debit card, but then every time that it runs out you need to get a new one.
ETC would just have you go to store, buy card, use card and don't second guess how much time you have in game.
Why are you opposed to this? |
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Posted - 2013.07.14 14:43:00 -
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Because their already shipping and manufacturing boxed EVE sets.
Look on Gamestops website.
Last I checked they were 30$.
I feel that these boxs of a already online distributed game.
I want to see something that has a point in being there in stores. |
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Posted - 2013.07.14 15:03:00 -
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Dude, their 2x3 inch cards with little numbers printed on em!
And also, they are already shipping **** overseas, like that board game, or that art book?
So they are already manufacturing things like the EVE second decade sets, so making 2 by 3 inch cards is just beyond them?
Sorry if I am sounding like I'm trolling you, but I'm just making a point. |
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Posted - 2013.07.14 16:18:00 -
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Meh, where else do you want me to post it chunky? |
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Posted - 2013.07.14 16:54:00 -
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That's
Just
How
I
Roll
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Posted - 2013.07.14 18:29:00 -
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Kaze Eyrou wrote:Cash? What's that?
/part trolling, part serious
If you go to get a cell phone you need to have a bank account. Already I'm starting to hear in bigger cities that cash is no longer an acceptable form of currency since it's so easy to.... there's a word I want to use... con-something.... I'll say impersonate even though that's wrong.
Anyways if you want a EVE account, best get a bank account or a prepaid card. CCP will probably be starting to go down the route where cash is no longer acceptable. ETC's are actually more costly to a small publisher anyways. Physical ETC is just the option to pay cash.
If you want to go to the store and buy time with cash, you can do that. If you prefer plastic to buy things, then you can assuming the retailer accepts it. |
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Posted - 2013.07.14 19:09:00 -
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Bump |
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Posted - 2013.07.14 20:31:00 -
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Bamp for more plas ones! |
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Posted - 2013.07.14 21:27:00 -
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I wonder where the Community Representitives are in this?
I understand they aren't EVE Devs, but they could relay this to them.
Meh, maybe the GMs could move me to the EVE Feedback Forums if that's possible? |
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Posted - 2013.07.15 02:38:00 -
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Bamp.
Nobody else? Can I let this thread die? Or are there more who desire, in better words, physical PLEX? |
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Posted - 2013.07.22 21:49:00 -
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Das Boot Bamped Me.
I am a necromancer!
Fear my power! |
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Posted - 2013.07.23 00:40:00 -
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No thoughts?
And people said 75% of those who play DUST play EVE... |
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Posted - 2013.07.23 22:52:00 -
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Bamp.
I'm thinking about going on IRC and Talking at the Devs about this.
Who do I get on IRC, I ask myself... |
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Posted - 2013.07.25 01:14:00 -
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Bump.
I'm gonna keep crusading for ease of getting into EVE! |
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Posted - 2013.07.25 17:43:00 -
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I'm going Bamp for Bamp! |
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Posted - 2013.07.26 20:00:00 -
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CCP Logibro wrote:I'm locking this thread for 24 hours for all the bumping and moving it to The Locker Room. Please remember, you are not permitted to bump threads outside of corporation recruitment (and there are additional rules in that subforum for bumping: see the stickied post there) I would like to thank Logibro for posting on this thread, its good to know I got CCPs attention on this, even if it may not be the attention I wanted for it.
Since I my Bumps managed to arouse CCP attention, perhaps my dear friends at CCP Shanghai could relay this request to the Marketing/Sales Department of CCP Iceland.
Again, from my OP, I have heard that the ETCs used to be sold in card form. Also, they were discontinued.
I am assuming they were discontinued because nobody bought them enough for the Major Retailer (i.e. Gamestop, Walmart, etc.) to consider them a viable product.
Of course, this was when EVE could be considered, a Underground Hit/Surprise. Now, considering the Sizable amount of EVE subscribers, half a million, no doubt it is more well known, and through that, people will hear of it, and see the cards next time they go to said store, remember the ad the saw, or the friend they have who plays it and says its good, and buys a Card.
Money in hand, subber in pocket.
Again, I would desire more replies as to keep this post relevant, and more posts from devs and CPM.
Thank you.
Me-Co Out. |
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Posted - 2013.08.02 04:53:00 -
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He must be stunned, for being thanked for locking a thread! |
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Posted - 2013.08.03 02:06:00 -
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J4yne C0bb wrote:What your asking for will not happen, and the reason is vey likely economic. I'm sure that any brick & mortar retailer gets a cut from the sale of these cards, otherwise they would never have carried them in their stores, plus the cards themselves cost a certain amount to manufacture, plus distribution costs of actually getting the cards to the stores. CCP cuts out the middle man by processing subscriptions online, probably using their own merchant account (that I'd bet has a much better rate than most retailers, since I would expect they have a pretty low CB ratio). They don't have to buy the physical cards, they don't have to pay for distribution, for manufacture, for probably a sales forces to keep in contact with the stores to make sure the product is moving correctly, to pay for the loss or destruction of cards, to pay somebody to design the cards, then redesign periodically to maximize sales, etc, etc, ad infinitium, ad nauseum.
You're basically asking CCP to make it more expensive to process recurring subscriptions. They are not going to intentionally cut into their own profit margins. It's never gonna happen. Give it up dude. Its a 2x3 inch card, dude.
Its 2 by 3 inch card that's 1/8 inch thick.
I mean not to troll you, but you can buy Hard ETC from various online retailers, a list is right here.
So CCP isn't paying any more to make the cards then to they are now, and they already have a card design on the Interweb, they just need to transfer it onto a 2 by 3 inch piece of plastic with a scratch off sticker to cover the code.
So, there's the Making of the cards, the cards designs out of the way, so all that there really needs to be accounted for is the shipping and handling for 2 by 3 inch plastic cards.
Now I don't play myself to be a master on the intricacies of Mailing, but usually, its by weight.
And I also don't play myself as a master of gravity, but 2 by 3 inch plastic cards don't really seem very heavy, so you could pack 15-20 dollars worth of product, i.e. game time, in a very small, and light package, and all you have to do is just make em, and get the major retails, like Supermarkets, Game Stores, the Odd Convenience Store, to buy them, and they can mark it up whatever percentage they want to, as from then on, its on them.
If they don't sell, then I don't believe that its on the cards not being wanted.
You just saw 2 and a half pages (I say that, cause half this thread was me Bumping it for CCP recognition) of people that said they would pay for these, just as I would.
It then would be the Retailers fault for marking it up like crazy, and expecting it to sell.
That is all.
I seem to be a fan of great long spiels whenever I post on this thread. |
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Posted - 2013.08.08 02:15:00 -
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I really like more thoughts.
All the more notifications for me! |
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Posted - 2013.08.10 15:21:00 -
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Come on, No juan?
Come on! |
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