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THCS wrote:
The inflated plexs price is putting a serious clamp on people's budget and I feel it kind of alienating the old veterans who are trying to enjoy end-game content and have loads of high-value capitals at risk. As a semi-casual player and full-time worker that doesn't want to play $540/ year or 480 hrs of my time just to keep a float in eve, its pretty hard to keep up with and enjoy eve content.
Playing eve has gotten pretty expensive for a 100+ mil SP /super/ and cap toon and doesn't seem to be slowing down.
Lets face it: Owning capitals capitals requires support toons. Players who don't want to shell out $15-20 a month need to buy plexs in game to support their capitals and accounts. With the increased cost of plexs recently, I don't think Capital pilots can sustain their accounts for long without eating into their ISK or RL savings or taking out a loads of time out of RL to put toward grinding for isk.
I don't think anyone piloting a ship worth that many billion isk can rightly call himself casual or gripe about lacking income for that matter. What the hell are you doing to make that little isk? If you can't be arsed to pay CCP or pay someone else spacebux so they'll pay CCP for you, then you don't get to have an active account. Sorry Charlie, them the brakes. Someone has to power the servers and keep them running, and your casual cap usership ain't gunna pay the bills.
THCS wrote:
Lets do the math shall we? An average player plays 10-20 hrs a week and owns 2-3 accounts in eve; at current plex sell and buy order bids, that's 2.2 bil isk a month to keep them active. An average pilot makes roughly 60-100 mil/hr from ratting. To earn a plex, it takes 7-12 hrs to plex one account. That's on average 36 hrs of play time to pay off just the plex for subscription and also does not include operating costs and risk of ship loss.
My rough estimate is that it takes 40 hrs of grinding to pay off one's sub for 3 accounts. That's 3 weeks of free continuously effort we have to put towards eve!!
Idk, I kinda want eve developers to bring price of plexs down because this inflation trend is really putty a strain on my RL time and In-game budget. Does any Eve Vets share the same sentiment?
Oh lawd have mercy, someone might have to pay real money for at least one of their accounts if they wanna cut down on their chores! Again, spacebux or realbux, this is a business. You're not here because you're entitled to spaceship comabt. You're here because CCP is being paid for you to enjoy said spaceship combat. The time factor to farm a PLEX is wholly irrelavent to this fact. Even if it costs a trillion isk to buy a PLEX you'd still either have to farm your brains out or shell out a few shekels irl.
I can go ahead and let you know ahead of time CCP isn't going to inject tons of free game time into the economy for you. If anyone shares that sentiment with you, they're equally delusional.
TL;DR: You are not entitled to free videogames because you feel that you've been around long enough to deserve it. The current price of PLEX is a reflection of the fact that making isk is easier and demand for them is higher than ever. Therefor you're competing with other irl poors for all those "I gotcha bro," tickets in the market. My suggestion for you is this: Either see some of those assets that a "casual," player would never need, close an account or two, OR dig down deep into those empty pockets and find an extra ducket or two. Life ain't fair, nothing is free, you're on your own kid. Get to it.