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Business Ethics
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Posted - 2009.03.03 19:39:00 -
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As it's basically unenforceable, I don't see it being worth a lot of consideration on CCPs part. Imagine some guy rips you off the PS3 you lent him for 40 billion isk. Is CCP going to come to Massachusetts and testify in court regarding the virtual goods used to back the real ones?
Of significantly greater interest to me here LaVista would be some kind of scheme for CCP to sell time codes directly to the players for ISK, which were sellable for cash via a CCP hosted system. Essentially CCP would be cutting the Shattered Crystals out of the GTC loop and passing the money directly along to the players. This might also act as a very real ISK sink. Not like I'm spending my billions on ships or anything like that.
Of course, CCP may prefer to externalize all these factors rather than allowing the players to profit directly from in-game activities, but I think it's a concept worth exploring.
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Posted - 2009.03.03 19:57:00 -
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 Originally by: LaVista Vista
CCP offers PLEXes now. I think that's just fine, since we have the ingame market.
Don't you think so?
Well sure I think it's fine, excellent even! But what I described was a potential CCP-hosted mechanism for the players to convert spare ISK to real life cash money.
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Posted - 2009.03.04 19:06:00 -
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Do you guys think a system like I described in post #15, whereby CCP embraced a limited and tightly controlled form of cash-for-isk, might serve to...interfere with the external RMT market? If the exchange rate was pegged somehow to the cost of PLEX/GTC...I dunno it's all very fascinating to think about.
After all, that's what it's all about for the ISK spammers, getting some cash for the stuff they farm in game. Perhaps this is going too far off topic and maybe this is a paradigm that CCP is just unwilling to consider for their game design. Basically if they set it up so it was no money out of their pocket and the process literally sucked some isk out of the game with each transaction...
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Posted - 2009.03.24 01:25:00 -
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Ok so how meta can this get before CCP flips out and bans everyone involved?
Could someone start a website designed to facilitate real $ "loans" between the guys with the isk and the guy with the $20?
You'd have someone with 20 billion on the block "I will loan you this 20 billion for $500 and if you don't pay the isk back in 30 days I'll be forced to default you " and what could CCP ever really do here? I'm afraid to even speculate how big a mess this could make.
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