I wouldn't pay to play for such a game. The only reason I played eve was because of lore and it was 10yrs of balancing that already happened.

I would not care. So long as the free-to-play model with subscription does not emulate, say, Runescape, where important gameplay-things are locked behind subscription fees, then have at it.

Discounts, exclusive skins, or other subscription incentives would be fine by me. So long as they remain outside the realm of important gameplay functions.

However, I doubt CCP could make subscription appealing enough under those circumstances.

I think DUST would have been better if it had never been F2P in the first place. It would have become something most of us would be willing to pay for.

If racial parity was achieved along with ever developing lore then yes.

I would 100% support an optional subscription if it provided benefit that would cost more if I purchased it a la carte.

Constant SP Boosters
Constant LP Boosters
A small lump of AUR to play around with
ect. ect.

SKINs sales for subscribers; 25 - 50% off certain SKINs for a week or something.

I'm all for it. I would happily sub. CCP would benefit from a better method to make a profit from this game beside the AURbarge
.Also, this... Is a very real problem. We need to get this game on a platform that players have less problem spending money on.

Those built in boosters mentioned above would tempt me. Perhaps X free keys every month. To integrate with the existing warbarge monetization; subbers' component factories are 50% more efficient.

This will be a question when Dust crosses to its next platform as well: Keep F2P, or go subscription

Been proposed before. Was met with all sorts of tin-foil and rampant negativity.

Actually the SKIN idea is pretty legit too since it has little benefit in actual gameplay but is also a nice benefit for people who are willing to pay for it.

No.

There is simply not enough content to justify a 15 buck a month subscription.

the topic discussed is KEEPING the free-to-play setup of the game and offering an OPTIONAL (not required) 15 dollar/month sub that might have such benefits as:

- one active and one passive booster active so long as the sub is paid
- 50% discount on cosmetic items such as SKINs
- An Aurum allotment of X amount per paid month
- X number of keys per month

things like that.

Players who opt NOT to utilize this feature...

Have the same options they have now.

No need for a subscription as the game has become very limited to the majority of the playerbase. Boosters? and put the SP where? Skins? a novelty thats as good as putting a chicken on my head. AUR? meh, still novelty at this point.

To make a sub worthwhile, an total server reset would have to be done in terms of SP, ISK, inventory and PC etc. There would have to be more things for us to skill into. In my opinion it would only be worthwhile doing for the PS4.

I would love to see a good, friendly subscription model in DUST. A MUD I played for a while picked up a side-subscription model, on top of microtransactions, that I felt worked very well and could work very well here.

So, the basic is idea is to just load on a bunch of ala carte bonuses for subscription, a bonus to microtransactions, and a bit of currency to boot.

For example, the $15 Dust subscription could look like:

* 25% bonus to passive SP gain (increases by 2% for each month you keep your subscription active, to a max of 35%)
* 15% bonus to active SP gain (increases by 1% for each month you keep your subscription active, to a max of 20%)
* 10% bonus to ISK gain (increases by 1% for each month you keep your subscription active, to a max of 15%)
* 10% bonus to LP gain (increases by 1% for each month you keep your subscription active, to a max of 15%)
* 15% more Aurum when purchased (increases by 4% each month you keep your subscription active, to a max of 35%)
* 10 hacked decryptor keys (a month)
* 20,000 Aurum (a month) (slightly than if you just spent the $15 on Aurum)

That's just an example, and maybe not perfectly suited to DUST, but I'd buy the crap out of it!