CCP did something clever: they came up with the "Weekend Fleet Pack".
As you can see, it offers three days of Omega along with 50 Plex for $3.75. This is a smart move in light of their monthly subscription increase to $20 a month. I've been feeling the Eve itch again but I was sticking with the free "Alpha" account because I wasn't sure that I was going to get my money's worth out of a month-long Omega account. So, when this came along, I snapped it up because it was a perfect way to get a short-lived Omega account without committing to the full $20. After three days of Omega, I decided, yeah, I did want to subscribe for a full month. And that is precisely why this pack was created! Best of all, there are no limits to how many times you can sub this way (and it doesn't have to be a weekend, either
).
It's funny that I find myself enjoying Eve the more it "dies" (according to the official forum). It is precisely the declining player counts that I think it making the game more enjoyable for more casual PvE players like me. Heck, I actually ran multiple missions in low sec today without getting molested once. I even made ~400K ISK shipping electronic components out of a low-sec system. Eve Online is dead! Long live Eve Online!
(As an aside, I watched some of the Eve Fest presentations and I get the distinct impression that CCP was prepared for lower player counts and is slowly morphing the game more towards PvE as a way of compensating. They even mentioned putting more NPC ships in the game to give it more life, sort of like Elite or X4. If that proves to be the direction that CCP is now taking the game, I am all for it!)
As you can see, it offers three days of Omega along with 50 Plex for $3.75. This is a smart move in light of their monthly subscription increase to $20 a month. I've been feeling the Eve itch again but I was sticking with the free "Alpha" account because I wasn't sure that I was going to get my money's worth out of a month-long Omega account. So, when this came along, I snapped it up because it was a perfect way to get a short-lived Omega account without committing to the full $20. After three days of Omega, I decided, yeah, I did want to subscribe for a full month. And that is precisely why this pack was created! Best of all, there are no limits to how many times you can sub this way (and it doesn't have to be a weekend, either
).It's funny that I find myself enjoying Eve the more it "dies" (according to the official forum). It is precisely the declining player counts that I think it making the game more enjoyable for more casual PvE players like me. Heck, I actually ran multiple missions in low sec today without getting molested once. I even made ~400K ISK shipping electronic components out of a low-sec system. Eve Online is dead! Long live Eve Online!
(As an aside, I watched some of the Eve Fest presentations and I get the distinct impression that CCP was prepared for lower player counts and is slowly morphing the game more towards PvE as a way of compensating. They even mentioned putting more NPC ships in the game to give it more life, sort of like Elite or X4. If that proves to be the direction that CCP is now taking the game, I am all for it!)
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