Dai Magnus
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Posted - 2010.07.12 05:53:00 -
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As someone who uses mostly PLEX to fuel my accounts, I think this is a great change and I can't believe all the complaints in this thread. The actual effects of this change have already been outlined by people, but judging from the whining apparently they need to be restated more clearly and with STRATEGICALLY PLACED UPPERCASE LETTERS AND TEXT FORMATTING  .
- People who are buying PLEX for the express purpose of ACTUAL SUBSCRIPTION TIME aren't affected at all. Nobody has to move PLEX to use them as you can activate them from anywhere.
- People who are buying PLEX in order to SELL FOR ISK can and will still redeem them in trade hubs, just like they've been doing all along. Normal item risk is already assumed on these PLEX - just contract your PLEX for 315 isk in Jita? Sucks, man. CCP gave you the item, it was your choice to blow it by not being careful.
- With this change, PLEX traders have simply been given MORE OPTIONS. Anybody who was making cash speculating on the PLEX market were stuck redeeming/buying/selling on one station. Now, people who buy and sell PLEX can MOVE THEM TO BETTER MARKETS should they so desire, or they can continue trading PLEX just like they were before.
The only way I can see that people will actually be "forced" to move PLEX is to keep up with other players who are controlling prices by moving PLEX strategically across markets and undercutting competition. GOOD. If you're looking to make money by trading a 300 million isk item, you deserve to assume a 300 million isk risk on that investment. If someone else has the chutzpah and brains to pull it off profitably - either start taking the same risks or get out of the market.
So in summary, NOBODY WHO CURRENTLY USES PLEX FOR ANY PURPOSE HAS TO CHANGE A THING IF THEY DON'T WANT TO. The only thing this change adds is that PLEX CAN BE MOVED SHOULD YOU SO DESIRE. I can't understand how people can consider this change as negatively affecting anything. Because CCP may potentially make a buck or two off greedy/incompetent traders? Please.
I do support a warning message popping up every time you're about to undock with a PLEX though - would definitely help out newer players who can't help but not know better, and remind traders that they're assuming a definite risk in pursuit of a buck.
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 Originally by: 0oO0oOoOo0o
Edited by: 0oO0oOoOo0o on 09/07/2010 18:10:17
Can you give us the option to buy an attribute remap timer reset for 1 plex, so that we don't have to wait a whole year ? I bet this way you'd "remove" much more plexes from the game than in potential destructions while being in the cargo of a ganked ship.
Fully supported, this is a brilliant idea. Demand and usage of PLEX would shoot up pretty quickly, and I'm sure supply would follow in short order from people looking to capitalize on PLEX prices going up. Pretty soon it would stabilize - all in all, more orders for PLEX, more money for CCP aka hopefully more updates , prices shouldn't change too drastically.
To head off the inevitable complaint about people throwing money at EVE to gain an unfair in-game advantage - a daily remap (taking the richest case scenario heh) will ultimately only be as useful as a player's ability to effectively use their skills, much like the isk from PLEX is only as useful as the player's ability not to blow their shiny new CNR first fight they get into. The EVE universe ultimately belongs to the bold and the skilled, as it should.
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