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Sitara
Minmatar
Solar Flare Trade and Production
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Posted - 2011.03.04 11:20:00 -
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Meh - I used to get worked up about RMT but just lost the will ...
Buying in game cash for RL money == RMT whatever the method used.
This is now even in the game mechnics (aka Plexs and GTC sales)
So removing these might be a good start !
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Sitara
Minmatar
Solar Flare Trade and Production
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Posted - 2011.03.04 20:26:00 -
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 Originally by: G 0 D
I am very serious. I don't understand why someone botting is any different than someone buying isk from CCP.
Both completely kill the competetive aspect of the game.
Signed and the biggest reason none of my characters play the 'big 0.0 PvP game' anymore and I just resub for a month or two here and there these days
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Sitara
Minmatar
Solar Flare Trade and Production
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Posted - 2011.03.04 20:45:00 -
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Originally by: Arnakoz
that is a conundrum - because the purpose of plex is to create an effective exchange rate of ISK/$. You see, as the ISK value of PLEX goes up, the value of the isk in real money goes down; because who is going to pay $20 for 500M, and take a risk, when they could buy a PLEX for $15 and get 450M. so what CCP did was cut the profitability of the RMT guys in half. plus, people who may have otherwise gone to the RMT guys now have a method of legally obtaining isk with real $; further decreasing the rewards of botting/RMT.
but i do see you're point. there is something ultimately unfair about the fact that people with real cash will go vastly further than those without. but we would still have the problem that those same people could have still gone to the RMT guys - thus plex isn't really the problem. it is that plex needs to exist in the first place. personally i think PLEX was genius. and i'm not even one who can afford them (in RL or in game...)
I hear what you're saying and I also understand (but disagree with) the way CCP attempt to justify plex and GTC sales over so called 'RMT' in terms of flows of RL cash and isk. However from what I've experienced the main impact of these has been to turn RMT (by my definition which is *any* purchase of isk for RL cash) from a secretive and relatively dangerous passtime to the 'norm'.
I could easily afford to buy billions of isk but dont - the situation is for me analogous to the old moral 'lesson' about a medal - you can win one in a competition in which case it means something or you could pop down to the medal shop and buy one (in which case its meaningless). Now that's my view and others may disagree - (its the same reason I've never in a long gaming career used 'cheat codes' in single player games).
Now in single player games its not an issue - the only person you're competing with is yourself - if someone is the type who likes to cheat at solitaire and convince themselves they're uber then fine, whatever floats their boat. However, in an MMO setting, particularly a PvP centric one any form of RMT 'un-levels' the playing field and I lose interest for the same reason I would choose not to play any 'rigged' game.
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