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AdmiralJohn
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Posted - 2012.08.17 23:30:00 -
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I buy PLEX with real money because
1) I'm employed and making good money, and
2) I'm a high-roller with expensive tastes and not enough time to grind for ISK.
Really, I buy PLEX for the same reason that mining your own ore for your ship doesn't make it free: my time is money and I make more of it doing employed people stuff rather than grinding in a video game, |
AdmiralJohn
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Posted - 2012.08.19 03:52:00 -
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Mors Sanctitatis wrote:Pilna Vcelka wrote:If youre grinding ISK to pay for your game instead of finding a real decent work, youre doing it wrong IRL.
I always thought PLEX is there mainly for people trying to buy victory and have more pew in bigger hulls, I only met a few children nerds who are too useless to make money to pay with. When people make over $175/hour, grinding in-game for ISK is silly when you can just work for an hour and buy billions. I'd rather work for an hour and spend $30 for my five minutes of work or whatever for my two accounts. Which I've canceled anyway.
This is exactly correct. Grinding in RL for RL money nets me more ISK than grinding internet spaceships for ISK, with the side effect that I get to also buy cool RL things like food and hookers.
Also I am really bad at Eve and can't even begin to cover what I blow through on misguided purchases. |
AdmiralJohn
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Posted - 2012.08.20 19:12:00 -
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Idris Helion wrote:[quote=Maxxatan]But the flip-side of this is that adults in RL do not have unlimited amounts of time to grind for ISK. If all you have is an hour or two a day to play EVE, PLEX is pretty much the only way to be able to afford some of the more pimp gear in a reasonable time frame. EVE is a game to be played for fun; it shouldn't be a second job. PLEX allows more well-heeled players to basically subsidize play-time for poorer players who have more time than money. Both sides win -- that's the glory of a market economy.
It's also a myth that a PLEX is a "play for free" option. Someone paid real money for PLEX, and at some point the PLEX will be consumed as game-time. Poorer folk with more time than money are using RL time to grind ISK to buy PLEX to play EVE. They are simply substituting time for money. (Because in RL as in EVE, time is money.)
This is exactly it. When I have time to play, I don't want to spend it grinding boring missions or belt ratting or whatever it is the plebs do. I want to have enough to fly a ship that isn't ****-fit, join a fleet and dump on nerds. I also put some money towards seeding the market, and currently that's my only way of making ISK in-game, but I do it more to help the alliance than to make a profit.
It's nice that there are people out there who will grind internet spaceships to let me afford this lifestyle, and I am kind enough to cover their game time expense.
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