Quazal Atreides
Gallente
Heimendall Holdings
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Posted - 2011.06.16 11:17:00 -
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Edited by: Quazal Atreides on 16/06/2011 11:22:22
OK
A few links just to show what services will be affected by this non-sensical change
Link to services provided in game
Every one of them services charges an isk fee... Mine is donation based, so for me to offer a service that only has value in game i have to pay r/l money ... thanks but no thanks..
So 5 posts of services are all going to have to go bye bye.... Then we get to lotteries (after all they are making isk) So basically thats 80% of all the WTS forums gone......
Then lets look at one of the major bonuses of Eve.. the ability to buy 'n' sell characters..
firstly we have a post that CANNOT list his skills on a site such as "eveboard" or likewise.
Then all character will have to type EVERY skill they have in the forum post... (yes great fun that will be) because we cannot use OOG websites for screen shots etc, after all we will be making isk from them...
So character transfers will just be a hive of crap posts, dodgy posts... things like oops sorry i typed Battleship level 5. but only have battleship level 1
Then we get to Supercap transfers... This wont happen... because without people such as chribba/darknesss/grendell who secure these transfers for a small cost wont be able to do it without paying $99 for commercial licence... So will you trust your 20>80bill in the hope that you get that shiny titan/SC or let me jump in your nice nyx before i transfer money.... So good bye super cap transfers..
Basically what makes eve such an enjoyable game is the ability to diversify into many many different areas....... If you have the skills to create a website such as "blink" "rothbards casino" etc then all power to you, you pay out of your own pocket to host/design/build these sites...
Gambling will cease given that lotto sites wont have random number generators such as chribba/random.org as they out of game applications.
Now my suggestions.
1 someone posted in early part of thread about charging ú/$1.00 per year to each user that wants to use his api key for applications...
2 hell even have something like ... 28 days for plex use then 2 days per plex charge for using api.. (this would amount to 24days extra days per year in fees if you want to use api for anything), or even 1 plex per year charge to have access to your api key, this could be done through account management.
3 Allow ISK ONLY donations.... this is something you can control/has no real life value out of eve.
4 WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES, THIS WILL maybe not kill BUT WILL DESTROY EVE and its community..
final point,.... Even Blizzard and WoW allow third party applications to be used without charge..... and thats sad ....
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