So is it dump?
I consider everybody who refuse to deposit not as MAs customer!
I didn´t say its the customers fault, its the playerbase fault, and biggest part of playerbase are NON-DEPOSITOR!
Those should overthink their playstyle.
10$ a month wouldn´t hurt anyone, but help MA a lot.
To many refuse doing it, and brag around if they hit a big loot, and then withdraw the PEDs.
Customers like me, who deposit regularly, even if they don´t need to (because owning enough CLDs), those customers keep MA alive!
Question is: are there enough like me, who are willing to keep MA and EU alive, or is most part of players blinded by greed who only want to get out as much as possible?
At the end of the day Goni the fact the non depositors exist is down to MA's business model, and no fault of the playerbase. I agree with you to some point though that some do brag about the fact they not depo'd for x years etc, but again they only exist through what i would term smart play (whether that be trading or game mechanic).
Now before you even go there, i did deposit considerably more than yourself per month even though i didn't need to as i am quite proficient in making the books balance. As a result of changes of late i no longer needed the bankroll i did, put the access on withdraw and play time to time with what i have left on my account.
I don't feel the blame (if any is to be apportioned) lies with non depositors, or in fact low end depositors such as yourself. More that the economy at the moment is in a state of change and of course this affects confidence for players with ped tied up in game. Whether they are investment type players (LA owners, traders, service providers), or hunters, miners, crafters; the changes of late have significantly altered the economic status quo and i believe it is that change and uncertainty that we are now seeing the result of. I have watched mining stats on Entropia Life fall for example, now if less people mine this not only affects MA's bottom line but also that of LA owners such as FOMA, and planet LA's who i would assume have also seen tax returns diminish due to low mark ups and so less activity on their LA's for example. So this is much much more than miner/crafter/hunter but also knock on effects to LA owners, Motherships owners, invester/trader players, etc as all are affected by changes to economy.
Of course this is just my opinion and can only speak from my personal viewpoint, but i personally sold any high value ul items as i can exist using limited and the way things are pointing i saw a possibility of those items being further and further devalued. Increase in UL SIB drops, falling of value in market, high drop rate of limited guns, new better eco equipment, upgradeable EK's etc etc...
With any real world economy confidence and stability are needed to attract "inward investment", lose that confidence and things go south very quickly. I do see however that perhaps a deflation of items within EU could be good to attract new blood, as EU has a reputation of being an expensive game/virtual world to those outside. Big ticket sales that have been promoted and put to the outside world though i think have reinforced that view (asteroid sold for $1 million, etc etc).
