gargars
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Posted - 2010.11.24 05:02:00 -
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Welcome to your first forum post... if you get flamed don't take it personally - some people seem to be rude simply because they can and it makes them feel better or bigger or something.
Anyway in answer to your questions, no one - including CCP - knows how the proposed micro transactions for vanity items is going to work yet. It's new (and unwelcome imo) territory for Eve.
One thing I think is for sure tho, if they do micro/vanity items, it can't always be 'each item for 1 plex'... I mean a month's worth of gameplay is not the same value as a logo on your ships or a character t-shirt etc.
Am guessing if they HAVE to proceed (please don't) it will be something like 'a plex = 300 vanity points' then each item costs so many points from your 'plex bank' or whatnot.
I am assuming that if they have some vanity item to sell, it won't be available for isk. They won't make the extra profit they seem to be after.
Time will tell. I am hoping they don't do it. The reasons given for doing it were condescending and false.
 Originally by: Quintus Mordian
Edited by: Quintus Mordian on 24/11/2010 03:01:49
Please forgive me, I am relatively new to EvE (six months or so), and I have never posted before on these forums. However I do feel compelled to post regarding this article and ask some questions I hope can be answered. My personal future with EvE maybe decided as a result, and I don't want to leave :(
I will try very much to keep my personal feelings aside and focus only on my question, this is a topic that I feel very strongly about.
From what I understand, CCP is adopting, or rather expanding their Subscription based model with Micro/Macro-transactions, in addition to said subscription. This is accepted by the player-base because it's not going to be for game-breaking items, and only for 'vanity items that no one cares about'. A precedent set by Blizzard (and Cryptic) for which they should never be forgiven.
I would like to know please if the only way to get these 'vanity' items, let's say a new t-shirt for my avatar, a haircut or a logo for my spaceship, will be with real money in addition to my subscription, through the 'store'?
Will there be no in-game way to earn these items? Currently the PLEX system allows a player to purchase their game time using in game currency, would at the very least a similar system be set up to purchase these in game items with isk?
I take great umbrage to a games company charging me a monthly fee, and then wanting to add-on more charges for things that most people don't care about, and that's why they get away with it. To me, getting that new t shirt might be just as important as buying that cruiser, and I would like to be able to earn that in game, and not be 'forced' to spend more money.
So to reiterate my question in a succinct fashion: Will there be an alternative way to purchase or earn, these 'micro-transaction' items in game, i.e. using isk.
Thank you for your time.
Edit: Punctuation
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