Originally by: Hans Jagerblitzen

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Originally by: Vin Hellsing

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OK, CCP. Since it's obvious your greed is driving these prices, let me point something out to you with an example of proper microtransactioning.

$5 USD for One shirt: People are very persuaded to buy it. 10,000 people buy. Company makes $50,000.

$15 USD for one shirt: People are offended, and those with more money than sense buy it. 500 customers. Company makes $7,500.

Now, which would you prefer to see?

A $50,000 income on lower prices because you are appealing to thrifty customers who are living on decided reduced incomes in their lives (HELLO, **** ICELAND'S ECONOMY. THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IS ALSO ****ED. TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT, DUMB****S!), where you are able to persuade them to open their wallets for a single PLEX purchase that would grant them a number of items and perks in the Noble Exchange.

Or would you rather have this?

$7,500 from people who have more money than sense and a very, very angry playerbase that would be apt to gut you idiots alive at the next CCP event?

Think carefully, morons. The economist you have on your payroll only looks at numbers, not at sense. He is a "Money over sense" person, and that is what ****es us all off.

Fire the moron. Also, fire whoever thought it was a bright idea to try to coerce us into buying multiple PLEX to purchase a SINGLE. VANITY. ITEM.

P.S. "Vanity" does not always equate to "EXPENSIVE-ASS DOUCHEBAGGERY".

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I absolutely love that you crunched the numbers here.

Thanks for mathematically torpedoing the idea that CCP is trying to rip off everyone and fill their pockets with greed.

Does anyone here think that $50,000 means anything at all to CCP?? What a joke. For a company that brings in millions a year in subscription fees, the amount of revenue brought in by microtransactions in the form they've implemented is completely irrelevant in the greater scheme of things.

And yes, vanity most certainly does equate to expensive ass douchebaggery. Look at anyone with a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes, Louis Vuitton purse, or Prada shades.

This was never intended to be monocles for the masses. It was always intended as monocles for the l33t.

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