Relaxedtrader
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Posted - 2011.06.18 18:04:00 -
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CCP, this proposal creates incentives for people to not spend their time developing free 3rd party applications, websites and calculators which help other people play the game. Many players use these tools a great deal and appreciate the time other players spend making them available for the rest of us.
If you wish to tax certain 3rd party applications, such as gambling sites, or sites where isk profit is made as a result of entertainment value provided, that would be acceptable in my view. However, information should always be free. A reasonable tax would be a percentage of isk profit as it relates to the cost of plex in game.
ie -> 8-15% of isk profit made as a function of the median plex sale value in game, weighted with heavier values in empire space vs null like 65/35%.
So if Bob's Isk Gambling returns ~2.5 billion profit/month, and median plex sale price in empire is 380 million and median sale in null is 350 million then median price of plex as stated above is ~360 million, according the the weighted values. So charge at 8-15% of their monthly profit, the cost would be 24.016 million isk per dollar. Resulting in $8.32 per month at 8% tax or $16 at 15%.
It's reasonable to charge for-profit sites which see their profits in the form of isk. However, charging non-profit sites which make money from donations is counterproductive. Sites which deal in information, and are run on donations are a benefit to everyone in eve, including CCP. We've all been playing eve long enough to know that CCP isn't going to be able to provide all the information we need in accessible forms. Even if CCP were willing to take on that burden, it would destroy the "free market" for information sites about eve, meaning: The competition to develop excellent accessible sites which deliver information is very steep, so crap sites fall by the wayside, while excellent sites are used thousands of times daily.
Please don't create incentives for people to not deliver information about your game. The more exposure and tools is available to make the famous eve difficulty curve less intense, the more people can enjoy eve. That's really the point isn't it? Make a great game, people will come. Don't **** with eve free market information sharing.
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