Altrue
Exploration Frontier inc
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Posted - 2012.07.17 07:56:00 -
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In Eve it's not Pay to Win, it's Pay to save Time.
Save time with alts if you want to be able to do multiple activities at the same time.
Save time if you can't find the time to bring friends (but friends are 500% more efficient)
Save time because you can buy a character / ship that takes a lot to be created.
But :
If you want, you can also have the same result with skilling during more time.
If you want, you can also just take the time to bring more friends. (I recommend)
If you want, you can also reach the same result without buying anything. (And more important, there is not CREATION, the player who sold the ship/character LOSSES IT, and the isks that the buyer had are coming from multiple people that at the beggining of the chain always spendTIME and not MONEY. (As long as plex exists you can exclusively play with time and not money, again.)
The only exception to this rule is botting, because with botting as you're not playing you don't spend any time at all, money or not.
Or more precisely, you spend a ridiculous amount of time that others players CANNOT spend. (23.5h playing, and so on).
Then, this is a situation when an advantage is acquired and can't be reproduced by the others : Unfair advantage. Like gold ammos.
But.. Oh, surprise, CCP is already banning bots ! So everything is fine. (Well I don't know if they are truly working on banning bots of course but at least this is the public policy they show.)
Edit : I don't even talk about the fact that alts (multiple mains or true alt in fact) are equiped with ships and equipment that comes from other players, so when someones buy an alt and play it, it modifies the full eve economy. Then, each alt as an influence over eve economy, which is not the case of you make items spawn from a cash shop.
PLEX is good, it's like Pay to Win except, as said (in page 4 I think), that that's a balanced model because every side have something to win from PLEX.
"- What is the end-game content of EvE ?
-á- The New Unified Inventory. Every player dreams of using it comfortably, but only a few hardcore gamers achieve to do so." |