![]() ![]() Good deal, do IT! Don’t forget to cancel the subscription right away or you’re stuck paying €48/$48 per three months into perpetuity (a lot less of a good deal!)… The two others are two months and the destroyer pack, a LOT less interesting imho! The most common (60% of the offers) is the 3 months of Omega for 50% off (€24/$24), which translates to €8/$8 per month. So how is a newbro supposed to get a taste of Omega? Well… If you run an Alpha for a while, that has never been on Omega before, chances are that you’ll eventually get a personal promotion, there are three. At the cheaper packages it’s even more expensive then just paying moth to month… Even if you buy the largest 20.000 PLEX package at a 15% discount (plus authorized reseller discount), it’s still 13.40 per 500 PLEX or month of Omega. You could maybe fix that by using PLEX to buy your game time, but PLEX is relatively expensive. The ‘problem’ with that is multi fold: #1 it requires patience and game time till the actual sale, #2 you’re subscribed for the whole two years, #3 you need to have a whole pile of RL money ready when the sale happens… Currently that would be about €8,63, around 43% of the full €20 euro price or 45% of the full $20 dollar price… Now that said, how much of a difference is there? Well, I usually wait till there is a 15% off promotion on Omega, I buy a year or in the future two years… Via an authorized reseller you can pretty much get an addition 3% discount, previously that would have been $9/month or €7,65-€8,55 per month depending on the dollar vs. Just like renting or buying a house, a long term commitment has a huge amount of financial benefits… With the new pricing structure on subscriptions, a lot of Residents will be just moving to a two year subscription and only see ~3% increase in price instead of the 33% that a single month sees. Then there’s us Residents who are used to paying per year, significantly less then the high $/€15/month that the Tourists are used to. If you don’t get that or understand that, you need to learn a bit more about economics and risks. Residents, the loudmouths complaining about a $/€20/month subscription are behaving like Tourists, the unwanted kind… IF you’re paying from month to month, ready to leave at any time, you’re always paying a BIG premium, not just in EVE, but in RL as well. I’ve seen a lot of very loud people complaining and even raging about the new monthly price of $/€20 per month… And while I agree with the sentiment that I won’t be paying that, but in my case that doesn’t mean I’ll be leaving EVE, I’ll just pay a lot less per month…Īnd hence my title: Tourists vs. Please read the whole text before yelling… ![]()
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