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Thrasymachus TheSophist
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Posted - 2010.10.19 23:42:00 -
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Originally by: Napoleon Baleine Your value assumes that a player buys PLEX just to sell them on the market for ISK... I doubt there is a single player who does that.
You obviously don't know what you're talking about, and I mean that with the best of intentions.
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TriadSte
Gallente Adeptus Arbites
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Posted - 2010.10.20 11:24:00 -
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Originally by: Napoleon Baleine Your value assumes that a player buys PLEX just to sell them on the market for ISK... I doubt there is a single player who does that.
As the aboce poster states, You'd be wrong to think this. Not too long ago plex were going for 280 Million Isk but now there about 100 mil more. The person who buys plex when he can and keeps them until a time where PLEX jumps up in price is a clever person.
Just like anything on a economic market every item gets higher and lower in price with PLEX included.
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Captain Pompous
Is Right Even When He's Wrong So Deal With It
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Posted - 2010.10.20 12:43:00 -
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Originally by: Napoleon Baleine Now, obviously you can convert real money into ISK... but it's completely unreasonable to assume that that Paladin pilot bought $1200 worth of plex just to get a 30b ship. It's misleading.
It's a question of degree. It's probably unreasonable and misleading to think that he spent $1200 on plexes to equip his Paladin, but that probably has more to do with the fact that you're dirt poor and couldn't rub two ISK together.
The Captain's gold cupboard on the other hand is very well stocked indeed, and let me tell you I would not hesitate spending that much on plexes should something catch my eye ---
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Rakshasa Taisab
Caldari Sane Industries Inc. Initiative Mercenaries
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Posted - 2010.10.20 13:20:00 -
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And even if he bought the ship with PLEX'es, it might have been a small portion of his billion dollar inheritance and that's like totally not as real money as if he worked 12 hours a day delivering papers.
OMG, this is SO ****ING DEEP my Mind Blew.
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RiskyFrisky
Under the Table Inc.
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Posted - 2010.10.20 13:44:00 -
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Because it's fun to compare and know that some poeples characters/accounts in this game have a net worth of over 100K USD, which is IMO quite amazing. -
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Bernard Schuyler
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Posted - 2010.10.20 13:49:00 -
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They do it for the shock value, and to make it sound more controversial. It has absolutely no real meaning or value.
News people do this ALL the time. "What's lurking in your backyard that could harm your children? TUNE IN AT 11!"
Someone blew up someone else's imaginary spaceship = boring to average reader. Someone blew up someone else's $11,000 imaginary spaceship = NEWS.
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TheBlueMonkey
Gallente Macabre Votum Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2010.10.20 14:03:00 -
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Edited by: TheBlueMonkey on 20/10/2010 14:04:36 It's all in the marketing\big sell isn't it.
say you wanted to write this article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11528371
The way they've written it is far more awe inspiring to the outsider that saying.
"Bad stuff happens some times and it can effect things."
Same goes for comparing "real" money to isk.
x ships distroyed would get dismissed as "egh, don't know don't care" x $'s worth of ships destroyed makes people think "crikey.. that's a large number"
All it does for me though is make me want to fly small stuff. but then smaller ships are more fun anyway.
edit; What Bernard Schuyler said ¼¼ --
Nothing is worthless, you may have gotten it for free but it still has an inherent value
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Riedle
Minmatar MARSOC Galactic
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Posted - 2010.10.20 14:21:00 -
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Originally by: Napoleon Baleine
Originally by: Destination SkillQueue The purpose is to give people who don't play the game something familiar and concrete to compare it to, so they can form some kind of a basic idea about the significance of the events in question.
My argument is that you can't compare it... Maybe they could cite the number of people involved, or just stick with ships destroyed... but saying ev0ke's aborted titans and other destroyed assets have the same value as a brand new economy car is pointless. There is no correlation.
Your argument is incorrect. The fact is you CAN compare it. The fact is, time IS money. So spending real life money to get ISK represents a time savings and that has a monetary value in ISK and real life money.
The fact that you don't get it means nothing.
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Jovialmadness
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Posted - 2010.10.20 16:06:00 -
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Op why dont you have an absolute cow over a totally rediculous point.
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Lost Greybeard
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Posted - 2010.10.20 16:55:00 -
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I've always found the "a 15$ plex sells for 300m isk, therefore 100m isk is worth 5$" thing rather silly as well. If you wanted a real valuation of the dollar value of isk, you'd have to take the total isk quantity of assets generated in a month through the entire game, and divide that by the total income of the game in a month (in dollars, assumably). I doubt that would give you anything like 100m isk = 5$. ---
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Nyphur
Pillowsoft Total Comfort
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Posted - 2010.10.20 21:48:00 -
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Originally by: Destination SkillQueue The purpose is to give people who don't play the game something familiar and concrete to compare it to, so they can form some kind of a basic idea about the significance of the events in question.
I write the EVE articles at Massively, and I can confirm that this is pretty much correct. I started putting dollar equivalent values on big attacks and thefts in EVE after the guy at JumpOnContact published that massive chart showing the equivalent cost of ships in EVE. I just found that it really helped non-EVE players get a handle on the immensity of a story, so the story gets a lot more readers from outside the EVE community. I'm sure other sites and publications do it for the same reason.
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