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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:20:00 -
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Originally by: Aiwha Actually, its an ISK sink. I think I get what CCP's doing here. They didn't want you to go out and purchase plex for cash to buy this stuff, they wanted people to grind up 2 billion isk to buy a space monocle.
It's not an ISK sink. No ISK is being removed here ù only traded between players. This is a PLEX sink. ùùù ôIf you're not willing to fight for what you have in ≡v≡à you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.ö ù Karath Piki |
Jovan Geldon
Gallente Lead Farmers Kill It With Fire
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:20:00 -
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I have, in the past, been one of the most vehement CCP defenders on the forums, and even *I* think that this is downright ludicrous. I can only hope it is a mistake; one which will be swiftly corrected if the devs want to maintan any pretense of credibility.
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Zackgar
Lead Farmers Kill It With Fire
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:21:00 -
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Posting in an epic threadnaught
But seriously, were the economists on holiday or something, you guys know about supply and demand right? I mean you could make more selling lots of shiny vanity items cheaply than selling 4 or 5 at a stupid high price? Also the players wouldnt feel like the women I wake up next to in the morning, dirty used and ashamed!
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Zverofaust
Gallente Incompertus INC Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:21:00 -
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I already wasn't going to bother with the Aurum store ****, but seeing those ridiculous prices I'm going to not bother with it even more.
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Zyck
Imminent Ruin Dirt Nap Squad.
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:21:00 -
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These prices can't be ****ing serious. A full plex for a ****ing jacket?
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Katrina Cortez
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:21:00 -
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LOL @ CCP... I dont regret my subscription cancellation in the least bit.
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Jerry Pepridge
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:21:00 -
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Adding the monicle reduce's session change time/lag.
im jumping thru gates faster than ever before due to the monicle.
buy buy buy _________________________________________________
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Bane Necran
Furtim Vigilans
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:22:00 -
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Edited by: Bane Necran on 22/06/2011 00:22:58 Whoever does buy them using PLEX/AUR, can then charge people who live in mortal fear of those currencies a lot of ISK for the same items on the open market. Not sure if they can now, but that's the idea. Acting like they're demanding real cash from your pocket for everything is shortsighted.
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Saile Litestrider
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:22:00 -
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I'll tell you what's still fresh in my mind, Valve's TF2 hats. Everyone was sure (or at least hoped) that the ridiculous prices were either an oversight or a joke, but several patches later, it just got depressing. It's really hard to even play that game anymore, it's practically become one giant ad for hats.
I really hope CCP isn't trying to pull a Valve. Microtransactions should be measured in cents, not dollars. There's nothing "micro" about a $20 hat.
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Dimitri Fukoyama
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:22:00 -
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85$ for a complete male suit with a monocle or so.
I wouldnt pay 85$ for a pair on shoes in RL lol
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Jada Maroo
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:23:00 -
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Edited by: Jada Maroo on 22/06/2011 00:23:00 Massively/Joystiq news tip link
Contact Massively with a news tip. Get the word out, make CCP the mockery it deserves to be.
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Moolti
Gallente Gradient Electus Matari
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:23:00 -
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Originally by: Ranita Drell
Quote: What an asinine, dumbass, ignorant way to justify your outrages prices. You're telling me some fake item is worth 45 euros because of some bull**** roleplay reason?
Of course that's not the reason for the pricing. That's the in-game justification, but of course it's total nonsense. What's to stop the capsuleer from base-lining (or sending a personal shopper out) for a couple hours to spend 2000 ISK at the EVE equivalent of The Gap to get four complete wardrobes worth of clothing?
I guess it would shame a capsuleer to be seen in anything less than the best, most ridiculously priced fashions. This dire need for luxury and extravagance does not, apparently, extend to the capsuleer's living space, where it looks like they sleep on a tiny concrete slab.
It's not even good luxury clothing. It's tame as t-shirts and brown/grey ****.
I might could see paying $20 for a very elaborate dress, or some ubercool tuxedo, but for this stuff... this clothing isn't even very science fiction-y.
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Galane
The Interstellar Lunatic Asylum
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:23:00 -
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Originally by: Aiwha Actually, its an ISK sink. I think I get what CCP's doing here. They didn't want you to go out and purchase plex for cash to buy this stuff, they wanted people to grind up 2 billion isk to buy a space monocle.
I think it's more likely they want people to break up a lot of the plexes they have stockpiled so they won't have to honour the massive loan they've taken out from the playerbase and have most likely already spent on dust or world of emos.
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Futile Rhetoric
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:23:00 -
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Originally by: Aiwha Actually, its an ISK sink. I think I get what CCP's doing here. They didn't want you to go out and purchase plex for cash to buy this stuff, they wanted people to grind up 2 billion isk to buy a space monocle.
How is it an ISK sink if the ISK isn't going anywhere? You give it to the PLEX seller, he does whatever. It's purely redistributive.
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W0wbagger
Immortalis Inc. Shadow Cartel
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:23:00 -
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inb4 ccp coins the phrase megatransactions
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Aiwha
Caldari 101st Space Marine Force Nulli Secunda
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:23:00 -
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Originally by: Tippia
Originally by: Aiwha Actually, its an ISK sink. I think I get what CCP's doing here. They didn't want you to go out and purchase plex for cash to buy this stuff, they wanted people to grind up 2 billion isk to buy a space monocle.
It's not an ISK sink. No ISK is being removed here ù only traded between players. This is a PLEX sink.
Players trade money for plex then plex for isk.
A for B for C, A for C via B. This might lower dampen plex prices, thus making it easier for people to play the game purely for isk. It makes sense.
And I'm not buying a space monocle. I can't heal stupid
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Johnny Roszel
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:23:00 -
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I don't think I would even bother with this feature unless a full set of clothing would be like $1 for the entire set.
There is really no point in it even existing unless other people can see you out of your ship. Which they cannot yet.
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Mashie Saldana
Minmatar Veto Corp
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:23:00 -
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What was the point of introducing the AUR when you could have taken PLEX directly as payment?
I was considering spending a PLEX or two sitting in my hangar for some fancy clothes but this is bloody absurd.
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Selene D'Celeste
Caldari The D'Celeste Trading Company ISK Six
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:24:00 -
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Originally by: Futile Rhetoric
Originally by: Aiwha Actually, its an ISK sink. I think I get what CCP's doing here. They didn't want you to go out and purchase plex for cash to buy this stuff, they wanted people to grind up 2 billion isk to buy a space monocle.
How is it an ISK sink if the ISK isn't going anywhere? You give it to the PLEX seller, he does whatever. It's purely redistributive.
Correct. This is a PLEX sink, not an ISK sink. ______________________________
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Vandrion
Gallente The Collective B O R G
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:24:00 -
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Monacles or Death
Fill it up!
However, CCP didn't bother listening to anyone in their OFFICIAL FEEDBACK thread but I have a feeling once it hits 100+ pages they may give it a look.....
BTW-- This is no ISK sink as some posts say. If it were an ISK sink then ISK would be removed from the economy. Buying Plex for ISK only eliminates a Plex. The ISK just changes hands. A true ISK sink would be the LP stores.
Every GTC you buy to convert to Plex to buy vanity items give CCP an excuse to keep milking the player base.
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Alissa Solette
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:24:00 -
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Oh just thought of something: do you remember when CCP tried to introduce a paid voice chat (eve voice) even tho any mentally challenged 11 year old internet gamer could tell you that you can just download TS for tree... I hope this abomination of an item store (or scam might be a good word for it) will go the same way... into the trash can.
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Cacophonus
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:24:00 -
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Originally by: Moolti
Originally by: Ranita Drell
Quote:
Quote: CCP Zinfandel > The Looking Glass Ocular Implant (right/gold) is fairly expensive. It's also a machine being installed into your eye and one would not want to buy a cheap version of something to go in your face. But you can also buy them on the...
What an asinine, dumbass, ignorant way to justify your outrages prices. You're telling me some fake item is worth 45 euros because of some bull**** roleplay reason?
Of course that's not the reason for the pricing. That's the in-game justification, but of course it's total nonsense. What's to stop the capsuleer from base-lining (or sending a personal shopper out) for a couple hours to spend 2000 ISK at the EVE equivalent of The Gap to get four complete wardrobes worth of clothing?
I guess it would shame a capsuleer to be seen in anything less than the best, most ridiculously priced fashions. This dire need for luxury and extravagance does not, apparently, extend to the capsuleer's living space, where it looks like they sleep on a tiny concrete slab.
It's not even good luxury clothing. It's tame as t-shirts and brown/grey ****.
I might could see paying $20 for a very elaborate dress, or some ubercool tuxedo, but for this stuff... this clothing isn't even very science fiction-y.
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Toawa
EVE Mercantile Exchange Virtue of Selfishness
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:25:00 -
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Yeah, the prices are pretty insane. I do not think, however, that CCP is equally so; I have no doubt that the prices will be going down, by a lot, in short order.
Originally by: Cor'len This is hilarious. CCP has been ****ing away customer goodwill like nothing I've ever seen before this past month. First the hubbub about the $99 "commercial" application dev fee ("commercial" as in "you can't actually charge money for your application", )
I'd love to know where you heard that, since in every mention of it that they've made that I've seen, they have pretty explicitly said that the entire point of the commercial license is so that you *can* charge money for your application. And as someone who actually writes software for a living, I can say that a $99, non-royalty license to write commercial software for a property like EVE is a bargain. They could charge 10 times as much and still have takers for it. (Not as many, of course, but still...)
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Wacktopia
Dark Side Of The Womb
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:25:00 -
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Here's a suggestion: Hype The F**k Off!
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Vitrix Dellmar
Gallente Depreciated Capital Assets
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:25:00 -
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Wow. So I can buy a fake eyeball or a nicely equiped Navy Raven and the 1000's of crew members on it plus bloody damn missiles to throw out of it.
And a stack of exotic dancers to hang off the rear view mirror for good luck.
EPIC fail CCP. No selection and you moved the decimal point about 2 spots too far to the right.
Massive *****mongering greed CCP.
We waited all day for this?
God, the turrets had better be fan-f#$%ing-tastic...
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Equinox 6
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:25:00 -
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What is wrong with you people, why are you compareing the aur with real money???
you grind a few missions and rather than buy another faction invul field you buy some pants for your avie.. thats hard?
3 plex isnt $40 its 1.2bill isk. stop crying and stfu!
Its the stations that suck, why why why, it achieves nothing, sludgy controls, crap camera... cmon why ccp
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Technovar
Gallente Aliastra
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:25:00 -
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Originally by: Jovan Geldon I have, in the past, been one of the most vehement CCP defenders on the forums, and even *I* think that this is downright ludicrous. I can only hope it is a mistake; one which will be swiftly corrected if the devs want to maintan any pretense of credibility.
Yup, pretty much this.
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Myxx
Atropos Group
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:27:00 -
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Edited by: Myxx on 22/06/2011 00:27:55 ill be letting my account go dormant, then, if this isn't sorted out. WTF CCP!!!
Yeah, this is why I said NO to microtransactions originally.
Going to start saying, 'told you so' right about now. --
Originally by: CCP Explorer (and if you guys would also stop using Drakes it would be really appreciated, kthxbye).
Originally by: Tom Gerard
Then again... I am a moron.
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Futile Rhetoric
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:28:00 -
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Originally by: Aiwha
Originally by: Tippia
Originally by: Aiwha Actually, its an ISK sink. I think I get what CCP's doing here. They didn't want you to go out and purchase plex for cash to buy this stuff, they wanted people to grind up 2 billion isk to buy a space monocle.
It's not an ISK sink. No ISK is being removed here ù only traded between players. This is a PLEX sink.
Players trade money for plex then plex for isk.
A for B for C, A for C via B. This might lower dampen plex prices, thus making it easier for people to play the game purely for isk. It makes sense.
And I'm not buying a space monocle.
Wait you think this is going to lower PLEX prices?
Adam Smith would like to have a word with you.
The ISK you pay for PLEX does not disappear. It goes into the hands of the people selling you the PLEX. They buy this PLEX with actual money, and keep the ISK/spend it elsewhere. CCP does not sell you PLEX for ISK. It sells you PLEX for US$.
Capisce?
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Talsha Talamar
Amarr Nebula Rasa Holdings Nebula Rasa
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Posted - 2011.06.22 00:28:00 -
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Originally by: stoicfaux
Prices should be at most, 1/10 of what they are now. Even then, the monocle would still be outrageous.
Given the fact that the items are destroyable und unique, I would not even buy them at 1/10 of their current pricing.
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