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Elgaris Dukor
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Posted - 2010.11.22 20:01:00 -
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 Originally by: Lirinas
Edited by: Lirinas on 22/11/2010 19:58:01
It's not very often that a dev blog can be both full of Win, and Epic fail at the same time.
The Win part: That PLEX's won't be used for skill remaps
The Epic Fail part: The justification of using PLEX's for vanity items later-on.
First, I've always had a strong distaste of games that require a Subscription AND micro-transactions. I have deliberately quit or avoided many MMO's that do just a thing (City of Heroes & Star Trek Online are two prime examples). Even if the items offered are just vanity items, I still find it objectionable.
Second, even the speculation of using PLEX's for other things has helped to drive-up the prices of them considerably. PLEX's get too expensive and people stop playing because that's simply the only way they can afford to play. My brother recently had to stop playing for a while due to RL funds, and he lacks ISK to be able to afford PLEX's at their current levels.
However... I did have some interesting thoughts on how this could actually work. I'm at work atm, but I'll post my ideas in another thread in the "Features & Ideas" forum later when I have the time.
Maybe its because Star Trek Online is so successful? They seem to dominate the MMO market with their subscription fee plus extra cash for vanity items strategy... 
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Elgaris Dukor
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Posted - 2010.11.23 04:48:00 -
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Edited by: Elgaris Dukor on 23/11/2010 04:49:06
Originally by: Ayla Nori
plex for remaps... plex for isk for implants... the difference is.. ?
remaps was a good idea.
You can buy a Titan with plex theoretically. Yet someone had to take the effort to build it. The same with implants. Someone had to take effort to get them. You just trade the effort to get them for some game time.
Buy offering a skill training advantage directly via PLEX nobody had to take any effort to gather anything. Thats the difference.
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Elgaris Dukor
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Posted - 2010.11.23 05:31:00 -
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Originally by: wizard87
I also wonder why given the demographics of Eve that you CCP Zulu always seem to talk to us like we are children? Would love to give you more positive feedback but I find your blogs a bit patronizing.
Because we are the stupid cash cows for them now. Gone are the times when we were customers. I did cancel my subscriptions some time ago and I am pretty sure now that i will not renew them. I have lost every hope that CCP still cares enough about EVE.
They have chosen to develop a 3D chat clent with my money when the game was in a state that it needed way more resources to fix it. And there are still so many open issues with the game itself and i would expect thats CCP invests a major portion of their resorces int the game itself. Intead they invest those resources into Incarna.
And today we get told that the only purpose of Incarna is to just milk us some more. That is actually totally unaccaptable for me.
I can only hope that more people feel like me, hit the cancel buttion and fill out this little feedback box. Otherwise this once great vision of a scifi simulator becomes a second life lite in space where you can buy some fancy hats.
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