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Anomaly One
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Posted - 2014.01.16 03:48:00 -
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No way would I put a dollar value on gaming items it disassociates me from the game :s kinda annoying to even think about it, x ship is worth Y dollars, ehh... feels like working.. Never forget. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8sfaN8zT8E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l_ZjVyRxx4 Trust me, I'm an Anomaly. DUST 514 FOR PC |
Baron' Soontir Fel
Justified Chaos
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Posted - 2014.01.16 04:13:00 -
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all my time spinning buttons in FW has to pay for something |
Julius Rigel
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Posted - 2014.01.16 08:23:00 -
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I try to live my (real-life) life according the rules that everyone has agreed upon, so in that sense I cannot legally exchange my ISK for other currencies, and thus I don't assign any value in any other currency to my ISK.
Besides, even on a student-size type of budget, I think I can survive without those $3-400...
Seven Koskanaiken wrote:I only would plex if I reach a point where I'm rolling in isk.
The tv license costs more than eve and tv is a total load of butt. Not to sound glib, but... do they force you to pay a television license where you live? I assume they do in some places? I don't own a television set, so I don't pay a television license.
In any case, "rolling in ISK" isn't that difficult, it really depends on how you have fun. What I enjoy most in eve is flying around, and frigates, so while flying around in frigates I usually pick up enough salvage and loot and stuff that other people leave at gates, on average, to cover most of my PLEX. T2 salvage is really expensive, and people tend to just leave it there after blowing each other up in T2 ships. Do YOU like to undock? |
Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
1129
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Posted - 2014.01.16 13:35:00 -
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I never calculate the IRL value of anything since exchange is always a one way street.
With money one can by PLEX and thus ISK but never the other way around. Hence, the only metric relevant to me is how much IRL money I spent on Eve. Since I have an annual subscription and never buy PLEX, I need not worry about that at all as it never happens. As for what my stuff would be worth IRL... that's totally irrelevant. I am not allowed to turn these virtual assets into real money anyway.
No object in Eve is actually worth IRL money. You could calculate how much PLEX (and thus money) you would need to buy something using real currency, but it is not actually worth that currency. It may seem that way, it being 'worth it' to you, but thats a personal interpretation of spending behaviour, not an exchange rate. |
Daedlus Caine
Wormhole Interactions
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Posted - 2014.01.16 13:42:00 -
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Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:Just another tool for tool's to use when creating whine threads about how much people took from their poorly protected corp assets, or to place a monetary value on their epeens, or to stroke epeens when you ***** on a juicy mail.
b-but my myrmidon was killed by a meanie ganker ! I am a special snowflake that deserves compensation because I'm too much of a scaredy cat to go into low-sec and do sites!!!
/sarcasm
I always wonder how some carebears even survive in EVE. |
Logical 101
Agony Unleashed Agony Empire
400
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Posted - 2014.01.16 23:32:00 -
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Daedlus Caine wrote:I always wonder how some carebears even survive in EVE. From what I understand, many don't.
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Katran Luftschreck
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
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Posted - 2014.01.17 04:41:00 -
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Daedlus Caine wrote:I always wonder how some carebears even survive in EVE.
You say "carebare" and I say "casual player." See previous post. Real job, stuff to do. Don't have time to spend twelve hours a day every day of the dang week worrying about ISK, PLEX, or EvE in general. Sure, I'd love to be able to earn billions of ISK an hour sitting in some supercap, ratting away in a null alliance. And all I'd have to do is quit my job, live off welfare and keep my lips glued to some egomaniacal nullbear leader's arse all the time. I've got better things to do... like mine Veldspar, for example. Being the uberleet EvE player is appealing, but not at what it cost me in real life.
And I'm not alone. Go around and interview some of these "carebaers" you like to chide. Ask them about their jobs, their homes, their families. I promise it will be a lot more interesting than what you hear from the 23/7 Falcon flying gate campers, that's for sure. Nullsec in a Nutshell: http://nedroid.com/comics/2006-08-24-2155-arrrdino.gif |
Chopper Rollins
Brutor Tribe Minmatar Republic
453
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Posted - 2014.01.17 07:07:00 -
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Oh man, if i calculated everything in terms of risk/reward and eventual profit/loss terms i wouldn't be able to get out of bed and nobody, absolutely nobody would be able to give me a rational reason to do so. Because ultimately, what's in it for you is death. There i said it, the thuggish referral to the fact that makes all temporal wealth and power meaningless. Sorry.
Space rainmen just don't get it.
Goggles. Making me look good. Making you look good. |
James Amril-Kesh
4S Corporation Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2014.01.17 08:13:00 -
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Snagletooth Johnson wrote:The whole "time is money" argument is irrelevent. It's the last breath argument for the people who believe that someday someone will pay them to play video games and they won't have to get a real job. Some people do get paid to play video games. It depends often on the game, but they may write gaming news, write game reviews, stream games, make gaming videos, or play competitive games professionally (like LoL or SC2). There are more than a few people who have made money off playing EVE or writing about it. You just have to be popular enough. My EVE Videos |
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