Originally by: Scarlet Vixen

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Originally by: Gene Windstar

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You do realize thats a complete load right?
Plex have already been paid for in real funds which amount to more than a quarterly subscription and the same as a monthly one, heck overall many people sub in 3 month or more intervals, making plexus more profitable for ccp. How in any way do they lose money when people fund with plex cards, heck even if these people made enough for a plex (which I might add most don't), the increased demand for them is overall a higher profit for ccp (again assuming they sub for at least 3 month blocks), and worse case they still have made the amount they would have if the person hadn't used a pled and it wasn't bought in the first place. Pled are not real money under any situation, they can be lost just like any other item, which if they do have a real cash value after redemption makes it legaly flaky for ccp to make them destroy on drop, essentualy voiding prepaid services. Are you suggesting my dread booster has cash value if a person buys it with a donation and sells it high to buy a plex?



Also, the isk is there one way or another as someone had to gain it, heck, miners can fund on plex with enough work, a CEO can use Corp tax to buy them, but somehow when it's related to donations it's real money?

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The isk is there one way or another, and miners can fund plex with enough work, but weÆre not talking about miners, weÆre talking about someone buying plexes by selling a product or service.

And it isnÆt a complete load.

If pilot A creates an app and makes enough ISK to fund playing EVE through plexes for 12 months, thatÆs twelve months lost revenue from that pilot. Yes someone else bought the plex already, but if pilot A didnÆt sell his app perhaps he would have had to resort to paying for a regular subscription. Or he had to mine or rat to build up the isk to buy the plex, in either case those other two other methods didnÆt require the pilot to sit back and make money in the form of plexes while sitting back selling his commercial app.

It comes down to, pilot A created an app, pilot A sold that app or service, because of that pilot A either made money or made isk that was converted to money in the form of buying $15 plex. And even if s/he didnÆt buy plexes, CCP has to account for it occurring.

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