Jill Xelitras
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2010.07.11 06:15:00 -
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Edited by: Jill Xelitras on 11/07/2010 06:17:05
Edited by: Jill Xelitras on 11/07/2010 06:16:35
Let's suppose on January 1st I pay 130 $/Ç to get a year worth of subscription and on January 2nd CCP closes down for good. Guess what happens to my money? It will most likely be used to pay whatever bills CCP still had to pay, but I won't get a refund.
You buy a GTC and CCP gets your money. If CCP doesn't stop existing the next day, they will guarantee that you can get a PLEX (actually 2) or game-time for your GTC. If you chose game-time, it will be applied to the end of your current subscription and is guaranteed only as long as CCP operates the gameserver. If you chose PLEX, you'll get a PLEX and CCP only guarantees to do their best, so that this PLEX will behave as the game-mechanics intend it to behave. If you get yourself scammed out of your PLEX before you undock or if you get your PLEX blown up after you undock, no one cares but you. Ok, wrong ... the guy who blew you up will cuss when he looks at the killmail and sees a PLEX that didn't drop.
Shirei, you're right in saying that it feels wrong. But please put the emphasis where it belongs: "it feels wrong".
Because that's what it is about. It's the same thing when people that never play computergames discuss first person shooters. They feel that it is wrong to aim a (virtual) gun at a (virtual) human being and shoot at that (virtual) person.
Where you are wrong (and this time it is factual and not just a feeling) is where you see the value of your 15$. If you pay your gametime by PLEX entirely, you actually never payed CCP 15$ in the first place. Also CCP did fulfill all the obligations they had by turning 30$ into GTC. If they shut down the server, no refund for the guy who paid 30$. If the GTC are converted into 2x PLEX, they are no longer 30$ or 2x 15$ they are an ingame-item. With 30$ dollar you could by ice-cream, with PLEX you can't. Anyway, by the time the 30$ are gone from your account (or billed to your credit-card) they are no longer yours. No ice-cream for you. It is now CCPs turn to buy ice-cream.
I hope this explains it somewhat.
Jill.
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