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Abyss Azizora
Astro Industrial Technologies
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Posted - 2014.03.05 11:19:00 -
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It was stupid of CCP to allow character trading from a gameplay point of view, and it has indeed increased super-proliferation. However CCP didn't create it based on gameplay, they created it based on making more $ and reducing PLEX in the game. For which purpose it has worked quite well.
It would still happen anyway on an account level, (and still does) but now they get a piece of the pie, so to speak. |
ashley Eoner
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Posted - 2014.03.05 14:52:00 -
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James Amril-Kesh wrote:Not that I disagree with CCP endorsed character trading. I've sold a couple of characters myself. I still think that if CCP wanted to ban character trading it wouldn't be terribly difficult for them to stomp out everyone that still tried to do it. YEah just like it wouldn't be too terribly difficult for CCP to spot and ban bot programs..
The history of the modern MMO is chock full of account buying and selling across hundreds (thousands?) of mainstream games. Account sales and/or in game currency sales are the two plagues of almost every MMO in existence.
CCP banning sanctioned character sales would have noticeable effect on the number of super pilots and such anyway. The people I know who are in them made their own holder alts or went on to make alts to do other activities.
Abyss Azizora wrote:It was stupid of CCP to allow character trading from a gameplay point of view, and it has indeed increased super-proliferation. However CCP didn't create it based on gameplay, they created it based on making more $ and reducing PLEX in the game. For which purpose it has worked quite well.
It would still happen anyway on an account level, (and still does) but now they get a piece of the pie, so to speak. In my view in enriches the Eve experience allow for more people to play the game. Also character trading cures cancer and is GOOD!! |
Lord Jita
Lord Jita's Big Gay Corp
131
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Posted - 2014.03.05 17:05:00 -
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James Amril-Kesh wrote:Lord Jita wrote:If they didn't allow it legally, there would just be a black market for it. I seriously doubt that.
You didn't research this very well then. Even to this day there are character sales on ebay and other sites even though there is a legit way to do it. If there weren't, there would just be 100 times more of it on alternative sites. |
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University Minmatar Republic
392
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Posted - 2014.03.05 22:15:00 -
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Ptraci wrote:AnotherUseless Alt wrote:By allowing character trade?
Think about it, if it weren't for character trading, would we really have the proliferation of Supers/Titans? Maybe CCP are realists. What is the difference between a character I trade to you via an official trade and a character I sell you on e-bay by simply providing the log in/password information? The difference is $20 to CCP. That's kind of smart. Just like PLEX. CCP cash in real money on players' desires to circumvent game mechanics. Making it legal means no black market. CCP are smart enough to know that character trade (and ISK trade) are going to happen one way or another. Either way it makes your argument invalid, because all those titan toons would appear anyway.
Making it legal also means some degree of control over the process and even some protection for buyers as you can petition if there is an issue with the transfer. Blackmarket trading would be far worse. |
Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
13997
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Posted - 2014.03.05 22:28:00 -
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AnotherUseless Alt wrote:By allowing character trade?
Think about it, if it weren't for character trading, would we really have the proliferation of Supers/Titans? The training time is long, many people are never willing to spend the time on it, but people are always willing to buy such characters. If there were no market for them, would so many have been trained up? Would there be huge fleets of ISBoxer alts if people had to train each character themselves? Would there be big blue doughnuts in 0.0 if Alliances couldn't just go out and buy all the alts they needed?
Really too late to do anything about it at this point, but I wonder how the game would have progressed if PTW wasn't a reality.
It was probably more about recognising the reality of the situation.
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Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
13997
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Posted - 2014.03.05 22:29:00 -
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James Amril-Kesh wrote:Prince Kobol wrote:James Amril-Kesh wrote:Lord Jita wrote:If they didn't allow it legally, there would just be a black market for it. I seriously doubt that. I will presume you are just trolling otherwise.. wow The mechanics for character transfer wouldn't exist, which means any black market character trade would be limited to account transfers. Even ignoring all of the risks that entails such a system would be so open to scams and abuse that nobody could do any trades or sales reliably. Only the dumbest of the dumb, who also happened to have lots of ISK, would ever try such a thing. Furthermore it would run the risk of CCP banning that account at any moment if they ever got wind that it had changed hands. Sure a very, very small handful of people would still do it, but a couple morons ******* about on eBay doesn't make a black market.
I don't know if you're aware, but it's far from unknown for EVE characters to be sold on the "black market" (ie: for real money) right now.
1 Kings 12:11
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