Renewing My EVE Subscriptions On Black Friday

Every year players of EVE Online always ask about sales on EVE subscriptions (aka Omega time) on Black Friday. Usually the answer is no. But I saw the ad for Black Friday sales on the launcher and amazingly this year's sale included game time. So I had to dive into the store and look around.

I have two accounts I pay for, with one running out of game time in April and the other in October. But if the sale is good and I have less than a year remaining I'll buy the sale. And the Black Friday sale was particularly good. Forget about the SKINs. The cosmetics are for ships I will probably never fly, especially the Monitor. But at $9.62 per 30 days when buying game time one year at a time, the price is less than half that of buying game time once a month ($19.99). So I went ahead and bought the 12 month Omega package.

I also looked at the packages and found one with SKINs for ships I actually fly. The Rifter and Arbitrator are nice and while I don't fly Retrievers, I do like the Rockbreaker SKINs. So I bought the Silver Starter Pack for the sale price of $11.99 for both accounts. So at the end of the day, I purchased 390 days of Omega time for $9.80 per 30 days.

I was reminded of one other thing at the checkout screen. I was asked for a content creators WeHype code. I spent over $250 today but didn't have a code to put in. A pity because that was $12.75 that could have gone to someone. If content creators were ever going to participate in the program, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the times to join.

I did notice PLEX were not on sale today. Hopefully we will see the in-game New Eden Store which uses PLEX as currency hold a Cyber Monday sale. Now that I saw that the Rockbreaker SKINs are not just for mining barges and exhumers, I might want to pick up a few if they are on sale.