Welfare Scrub
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.08.02 20:03:00 -
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RavenPaine wrote:People who have more money in real life would have an advantage. The idea of skilling in eve now, is that you evolve and learn from your mistakes, exactly like everyone else did. You cannot 'buy' your way to perfection.
Some people would quit the game over this, so CCP might make less money.
These comments are exceedingly ignorant.
You do realize that you can 'buy' your way to perfection with RL$ via the character bazaar? |
Welfare Scrub
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.08.02 21:09:00 -
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Welfare Scrub wrote:[quote=CorInaXeraL]
Ah, you mean purchase enough plex from the bazaar to sell in-game to make enough ISK to then turn around and purchase a character?
That is still an 'old' character, one that's followed all of the rules to date to get to where it is at. Besides, the average selling-price for an 'aged' PVP toon, lets say in the 60-80m SP range, is going for...what, 20b? 30b? In plex, that's about 40-60. The going-price for PLEX via EVE AUTHORIZED transactions is about $20.00 US each.
You know what? If you want to spend $1,200usd just to get a leg up...have at it.
But even then, a 'new' skilled character is not immediately introduced into the game. With this 'rollback' system being funded by PLEX for real-money, powerhouse characters would be literally dumped into the market, saturating it and rendering older characters all but obsolete unless someone were gunning for a highly specialized character. And even then...
Spend time on core skills, then a month on ship/weapon specific and rollback as desired? Still way too OP and way too favoring of the 'privileged few'.
The current 'buy it on the bazaar' system at least doesn't duplicate or increase the characters available at that particular skill level.
I'm not overly in favor of his proposal but if you want to try to claim that it's "totally unfair" for somebody to pay to reset skill points that they actually paid their subscription for, and waited to train, While at the same time saying it's totally fair that somebody can turn around and buy any character they want (barring the name) and any amount of in-game items is in fact totally ok is utterly daft.
Furthermore, plex cost 17.5 if you buy GTCs, and can be purchased on special for ~$15 from time to time. Additionally, a good 50-75% of the cost of those "advanced" characters is soaked up in subscription costs required to actually create them. Finally, there is a segment of players that create characters solely with the intention of selling them.
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