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Elgaris Dukor
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ParadoXon Alliance
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Posted - 2010.07.09 18:02:00 -
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Hello CCP,
Im not sure this is a good change (well mabe for you. I explain later). While you can compare the value of a PLEX to other ingame items they are still not the same.
PLEX are nothing more than kondensed game time. This makes them special towards every other item. If 300m ship explodes its gone but there is no effect outside of the game. If a PLEX gets destroyed 30 days of gametime vanish that have to be bought again! This makes you effectively 15€ for every PLEX that gets destroyed.
I do not appreciate this changes, because it is a machanic that lets players consume more gametime without acctually getting more gametime.
Elgaris
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Elgaris Dukor
Caldari
Femti Runa Eru
ParadoXon Alliance
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Posted - 2010.07.09 18:23:00 -
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 Originally by: Zarch AlDain
Originally by: Elgaris Dukor
Hello CCP,
Im not sure this is a good change (well mabe for you. I explain later). While you can compare the value of a PLEX to other ingame items they are still not the same.
PLEX are nothing more than kondensed game time. This makes them special towards every other item. If 300m ship explodes its gone but there is no effect outside of the game. If a PLEX gets destroyed 30 days of gametime vanish that have to be bought again! This makes you effectively 15Ç for every PLEX that gets destroyed.
I do not appreciate this changes, because it is a machanic that lets players consume more gametime without acctually getting more gametime.
Elgaris
They are the same. Isk in game can be converted to any other item including plexes. Any loss of isk equivelant to the cost of a plex is identical as you need to earn the same amount of isk to replace it.
No you you cant convert isk to a PLEX. Thats a major misconception. You can trade isk for PLEX and vice versa but you cant convert it into each other. If you buy a PLEX for isk somebody else did buy a GTC and did convert that GTC into PLEX.
Elgaris.
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Elgaris Dukor
Caldari
Femti Runa Eru
ParadoXon Alliance
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Posted - 2010.07.09 18:41:00 -
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Originally by: ArchenTheGreat
Originally by: Elgaris Dukor
No you you cant convert isk to a PLEX. Thats a major misconception. You can trade isk for PLEX and vice versa but you cant convert it into each other. If you buy a PLEX for isk somebody else did buy a GTC and did convert that GTC into PLEX.
True, but from your point of view you just bought game time with your ISK. That ISK came from missioning or mining or you just sold your officer item. PLEX is no different from any other game item or pure ISK as long as there is someone supplying them. And I am sure you will always find someone with too much $$$ and not enough ISK - so no worriesm there will always be some PLEX on market.
Yes you just said it yourself: "Someone has to supply them". And the only supply of PLEX is comming from real life money. There is the difference. A ship can be repleced by mining the minerals and building it. IF a PLEX is destroyed it can only be replaced by spending real life money!
And it does not matter if you did pay that money or someone else. Its money that goes directly to CCP.
Elgaris.
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Elgaris Dukor
Caldari
Femti Runa Eru
ParadoXon Alliance
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Posted - 2010.07.09 18:53:00 -
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Originally by: Flesh Slurper
Originally by: iudex
Is that perception, which you like to combat, really that wrong ? The PLEX actually does have a special status:
If someone destroys a titan/carrier/T2 BS/etc this is no diffrence for you, the CCP.
If however someone destroys a PLEX, you don't have to grant someone 30 days of subscription time, while you had to do this before the deletion of the PLEX. In the end you got ~15$ for free and with no obligation, if a PLEX disappears in a ship destruction process. IMHO that's a substantial diffrence compared to other items for you, the CCP.
I disagree, All things in the game ultimately come from someone's time, which translates to game play purchased. So even if someone didn't buy the titan BPO with their own RL $, they still took a lot of people's time to get it, which translates to rl cash.
I hardly disaggree. PLEX do not come from someones time. Whatever you do you can never create a PLEX with ingame mechanics. A PLEX is always created by spending real life money.
Elgaris.
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