Roland Deschaines
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Posted - 2010.09.21 23:15:00 -
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This already exists, you can buy and sell chars for ISK, and you can buy ISK with IRL money.
The importance of this, however, is nothing compared to the necessity of having an indicator that the post has ended and the sig has started.
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Monsieur Rolly |
Roland Deschaines
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Posted - 2010.09.30 14:37:00 -
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There are a few main things I've heard from the WTF CCP THIS IS BS side of the story, and I'll answer each of them here.
1. It's an unfair advantage to players with RL money.
Ever since PLEX, players with RL money can buy ISK, and ISK has always been an advantage in EvE. Implants, expensive ships / mods, you name it.
Moreover, this is hardly an advantage. If anything, it can compensate for your lack of planning / common sense (ie you didn't optimize your training and train skills that require one attribute for one year, then skills that require another for the next year).
2. It's a slippery slope.
The slippery slope argument is a fallacy.
You can't not want something on the basis that it might later lead to something else you don't want.
You would be right if you could prove that accepting this will have as a direct, unstoppable consequence the introduction of PLEX for SP. But you can't. There's nothing to show that it won't just be PLEX for remap and nothing else.
3. Microtransactions.
 Originally by: CyberGh0st
The ability to remap with plex adds a form of wealth to the game ( a service that gives you more flexibility in gameplay ), this opposed to the current plex for gametime system where the wealth in the game is only redistributed between the players.
This is true.
Up to now, for every 15 dollars that CCP received, someone would get a month of gameplay, whereas with this, they will receive 15 dollars without giving a month of gameplay to someone in return.
In that sense it is a "micropayment".
That doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
You can't just brandish the word MICROPAYMENT as some Evil That Will Ruin EvEÖ.
There's nothing wrong with CCP selling other services than gametime, and they already do it. Character transfers, portrait changes, corp logo changes. But more importantly: alt accounts.
Selling an alt account is not selling gametime. You're not getting an extra month by buying an alt account, you're buying the ability to train double the skills during a month of gametime you already have. And there is virtually no difference b/e having perfect manufacturing AND sniper HAC skills on one char and having them on two different chars, except that having them on two different chars lets you move them / use them independently and simultaneously, which is handy.
In that sense, there already is something much much closer to PLEX for SP, and nobody seems to be too angry about it.
If there's anything I've missed, please tell me.
The importance of this, however, is nothing compared to the necessity of having an indicator that the post has ended and the sig has started.
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