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Sylvia Carpenter
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Posted - 2017.01.15 01:44:50 -
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So I have been promoting Eve to my friends. I told them that there is no "COINS" in Eve, so basically Eve is not Pay To Win game. But they said that we still need Real Money to build big things such as Titan and Citadel. Is that true?
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Sylvia Carpenter
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Posted - 2017.01.15 01:50:41 -
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Rogwar Toralen wrote:Not true. Just time.
The only thing I can imagine is to buy PLEX with real money, sell in in game, and use the ISK to buy resources needed. But is it a normal way for corps to do that? I hope it is not.
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Sylvia Carpenter
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Posted - 2017.01.15 01:57:11 -
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Akali Mid wrote:Yes, this game is 100% pay2 win.
Buy plex with irl money, sell plex for isk, buy citadel, buy titan. What else is there to talk about.
You mean people spend $7,600 just to build a Titan? Why don't we t just play Eve normally and build it from mining, business, etc.
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Sylvia Carpenter
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2017.01.15 02:22:12 -
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ShahFluffers wrote:Sylvia Carpenter wrote:Rogwar Toralen wrote:Not true. Just time. The only thing I can imagine is to buy PLEX with real money, sell in in game, and use the ISK to buy resources needed. But is it a normal way for corps to do that? I hope it is not. No... it is not. Understand that EVERY SHIP AND MODULE IN THE GAME has to be built or harvested by players. That ship you bought? It was built by a player. And the minerals that went into building that ship? Processed from ore by a player. And the ore that was processed? Had to be harvested and moved by a player. PLEX** is only good for getting ISK... and ISK will only help you so much. To build and protect large structures and ships is a team effort that requires A LOT of time and effort. **Note: PLEX is designed as a way to fight Real Money Trading. The idea is that you buy a PLEX (worth 30 days of game time) and sell it to a player that is really good at making tons of ISK (which is no small feat, but is possible). In effect... you are paying for the "subscription" of another player in exchange for in-game currency.
Thanks Shah. I got the concept. And I am amazed by it. I salute CCP for letting Eve universe goes by its own almost completely. But for non-Eve players where they play a PAY TO WIN game, when the game company periodically sells SHIP DEALS and COINS promotion, Eve mechanics is very difficult for them to understand.
I have been trying to recruit my Clan mates into Eve, but so far no success.
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Sylvia Carpenter
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2017.01.15 02:47:20 -
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Akali Mid wrote:Steve Ronuken wrote:[quote=Sylvia Carpenter][quote=Akali Mid]Yes, this game is 100% pay2 win.
The vast majority of people do just play normally. Are there some who buy with real money? Maybe. They'd be a tiny tiny minority.
Yea like every fuking plex you buy with isk to sub your shity account is from that people. EVERY single plex on the market subbing poor ignorant people accounts is from that people. "a tiny tiny minority" Most likely if it wasnt for all that people selling plex for isk you wouldnt even be playing this game, let alone mining to buy a titan. Fuking ignorant.
You mean PLEX contributes significantly to EVE survival as a game? Is there any data on how much PLEX bought with Real Money?
P.S. Why are you angry?
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Sylvia Carpenter
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2017.01.15 03:02:04 -
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Scipio Artelius wrote:Sylvia Carpenter wrote: Is there any data on how much PLEX bought with Real Money? CCP's financial statements contain a listing of the amount of PLEX in the game as part of their liabiities under a heading of 'deferred liabilities'. From the 2015 Financial statement that was about USD $3.3 million purchased but not yet consumed, representing a rough number of >165,000 that are currently either in the game or with third-party sellers waiting to be sold: http://marketsforisk.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/ccp-financial-statements-for-2015-review.html In terms of the total purchased since PLEX was introduced, no we don't know the exact number. It would be in the tens of millions of dollars.
Thanks. Good to know. I hope it gives enough financial health for CCP to keep developing Eve. I really hope I could still play the game when I am retired in the next 15 years. I love it.
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Sylvia Carpenter
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Posted - 2017.01.15 12:51:27 -
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Elmund Egivand wrote:[quote=Hir Miriel]No such thing as real money. Money is a virtual construct. Just digits on a screen.
Compare with Titan and Citadel, which are high investment items that are destructible.
Not to mention frankly, Titans and Citadels are bloody useless for anything short of Alliance-level activities anyway. Titans can't really navigate anywhere well without the aid of someone with a cynosural beacon and they are too slow to evade hordes of other players flying ships that they will have trouble tracking. Citadels are extremely time and resource-consuming massive objects that will require frequent maintenance by the player, maintenance that takes time away from doing other things like, I don't know, shoot the other guy three systems over in the face.
Why the heck do you want to have these as a solo player?
That is a very good point Elmund. Make sense. Thanks. I will explain that to my friends.
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