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Niccolado Starwalker
Gallente
Shadow Templars
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Posted - 2011.06.22 11:45:00 -
[91]
 Originally by: CCP Guard
It's all in the eye of the beholder.
ROFL. Yup yup, certainly is! 
Originally by: Dianabolic
Your tears are absolutely divine, like a fine fine wine, rolling down your cheeks until they flow down the river of LOL. |
Rodj Blake
Amarr
PIE Inc.
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Posted - 2011.06.22 11:45:00 -
[92]
TBH, I'm against microtransactions whether a monocle costs 60 cents or 600 dollars.
It's not the price that matters, it's the principle.
Dulce et decorum est pro imperium mori.
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Flak Ygdral
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Posted - 2011.06.22 11:46:00 -
[93]
How much!!!?
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flapie 2
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.06.22 11:48:00 -
[94]
Originally by: CCP Guard
Guys, I didn't mean to offend with my little wordplay there. Sorry if I did. A more serious reply to your concerns and questions regarding pricing of virtual goods is coming. The workday started not long ago over here and most of us were up late monitoring initial reactions and spinning our dudes in CQ. We are piecing together the different opinions and we'll do our best to address all of them.
Thank you all for your patience.
Dont worrie dude, there just to buthurt atm to be open for anny logical reasoning ^^
This will settle down slowly, just let it ride, that remark was epic i loled for sure ><
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Jezmund Bezerker
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Posted - 2011.06.22 11:48:00 -
[95]
Originally by: CCP Guard
It's all in the eye of the beholder.
Wow, that's astute, because this beholder sees CCP being rather tone deaf about this whole thing... now clear that they'll do anything for a buck. Just wait folks... Dust will be even better!!!
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John Zenrael
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Posted - 2011.06.22 11:49:00 -
[96]
Can these monocles be fired out of the sexy, new turrets?
I imagine they could do a lot of damage... take someones eye out, etc.
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Reloadin
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Posted - 2011.06.22 11:49:00 -
[97]
How dare CCP not try and make a quick buck out of us all. Haven't you been reading the forums lately? We all love microtransactions and can't wait to buy as many things as possible.
How dare you try and give vanity items some exclusiveness and limit the amount of profit you'll make from MT in the process.
Every single character in game must be able to afford a monocle right now!
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Bomberlocks
Minmatar
CTRL-Q
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Posted - 2011.06.22 11:49:00 -
[98]
Originally by: CCP Guard
It's all in the eye of the beholder.
I'm honestly not too sure what CCP is trying to achieve with these prices. At first I thought it was a glitch, but your comment makes it obvious that it isn't. CCP seems to have forgotten the lessons learnt from last summer's :18months: ragefest, because the bad PR is already there, along with a few threadnoughts and plenty of players unsubscribing.
I hope CCP make sure that the expansion of CQ to WiS comes quickly, but whatever the case, we'll see by the end of the year if this is CCP's NGE moment, given that the reception of Dust on non-Sony/CCP moderated sites has been lukewarm at best.
I'll leave you this possibly telling quote from the article on the NGE fiasco:
Quote:
At some point someone - your producer, probably, that being his job and all - should have sat everyone down and said "you. can't. do. that." Those 200,000 customers - customers - you blithely dismiss as "dregs" and "weirdos" - are paying your salary. You can't just blow them off for the mythical millions of people looking for a better game.
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Systech
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Posted - 2011.06.22 11:51:00 -
[99]
Originally by: Amaia Sirin
Originally by: CCP Guard
It's all in the eye of the beholder.
Well, there goes my subscription I guess. This situation is one of the biggest clusterfudges in CCP history and the community team is cracking jokes about it instead of finding answers or doing damage control. Great work guys.
Well Amaia has a point, this is just the beginning. Eve is turning into a f2p mmorpg with a p2p price tag. Once they start added ships,weapons and even ammo that can not be bought in less you shovel out billions or by buying plexes, you all will begin to wake up.
This is Bullsh!t in my book, you can not expect people to pay twice or even three times when we are already paying for a month sub. Yeah, Eve is one of the best space games running, but they are sinking fast. They need to figure out some way to make up the extra revenue for the decreasing player base.
Eve has around 500 million subscribers and on a good day you are lucky to see 43k online, most of the time Eve doesn't even break 30k. So the only way to make more more money is to pork the players that are left. This is a good way to finish off the 30k that do play regularly. I don't see Eve staying a flow for much longer, I would say Eve won't last till next year. This is a last attempt chance to stay above water and I don't see this working.
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Adrian Idaho
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Posted - 2011.06.22 11:54:00 -
[100]
Originally by: Rhaegor Stormborn
Originally by: CCP Guard
It's all in the eye of the beholder.
Your days are numbered. Mark my words.
Was that a personal death threat?
 Look at him, trying to look tough on teh interwebz!
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leth ghost
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Posted - 2011.06.22 11:55:00 -
[101]
Its a slippery slope from "pay to play" to "pay to win" when all this microtransaction is introduced
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Tribunia
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Posted - 2011.06.22 11:56:00 -
[102]
Originally by: HeIIfire11
They had to have known that we would tell them to go **** themselves. That they even try us like that....amazing.
It s the bitter after taste from getting paid for sex.
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The Hardman
Amarr
Uncle Fester's Olde Tyme Barbershoppe
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Posted - 2011.06.22 11:56:00 -
[103]
You can't lock ships with out the monocle equipped.
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Kez Aumer
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Posted - 2011.06.22 11:59:00 -
[104]
Originally by: Tribunia
It s the bitter after taste from getting paid for sex.
Listerine, man. Learn to love it.
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Shardivh
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Posted - 2011.06.22 12:01:00 -
[105]
Originally by: Flak Ygdral
How much!!!?
Thats practically a new ship!
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Ten Bulls
Minmatar
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Posted - 2011.06.22 12:08:00 -
[106]
Originally by: CCP Guard
<blah blah snip>
Thank you all for your patience.
What patience, where ???
How about thanking us for our knee-jerk reactions, thats where all the cred is !
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Nina Dakatt
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Posted - 2011.06.22 12:09:00 -
[107]
Try thinking out of the box, take a look at RL and accept that there are 2 types of EvE (or any game for that matter) player.
1) The younger gamer, student maybe ot between jobs that has lots of time on thier hands, Cash is in short supply do they feed their gaming by playing lots, grinding isk and buying plexes.
Those plexes do not appear out of thin air, they are created by :
2) Older gamer, has a good job that pays good cash. They have cash to spare and already have everything they need in RL. To have this level of comfort requires either a lottery win or work many hours.
I am Gamer 2. I think nothing of buying 12 plexes and selling them to pay for my PvP habit. I dont have the time to grind ISK, i get home from work often late, and just want to log on and blow up some internet spacehips in my very limited available time.
This enables me to play EvE, Play another FotM game/MMO, keep the Mrs happy, spend time with the kids, go out and eat steak every night if i choose and run a mercedes.
I do this because i work hard and deserve to have an easy grind free fun playtime.
I am Damned if some unemployed peasant dictates to me how my gametime is played. When station walking comes into play then so will EvE politics, Alliance discussion will be conducted around a table not IRC, As in RL image will be everything, In RL i wear designer suits to make the right impact, they more than pay for themselves thanks.
EvE will be the same, the more high value wealth you display the more credibility you will have when conducting business or declaring war/peace in the stations.
I think its clear where this game is going, and one other thing, there are not many premium MMO's out there that give you a chance to play without subscription.
I would think about that if i were you before they do decide to go deeply down the F2P route. If they do i dont care how many officer mods give you godmode in PvP, i will be able to afford to buy better.
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Ciar Meara
Amarr
Virtus Vindice
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Posted - 2011.06.22 12:12:00 -
[108]
Edited by: Ciar Meara on 22/06/2011 12:14:32
Originally by: Flak Ygdral
How much!!!?
I see what you did there, quite good!
+5 internet
Oh and to GM GUARD who seems to be a bit 'tired', bad excuse for being spouting nonsense and then complaining about our reaction to his early morning drivel.
We where all up early in the morning, working.
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A friend of death, a brother of luck and a son of a *****
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Fukov Andie
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Posted - 2011.06.22 12:15:00 -
[109]
I get an idea what went wrong with the icelandic economy. 
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Hyperforce99
Gallente
The Scope
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Posted - 2011.06.22 12:15:00 -
[110]
Originally by: CCP Guard
It's all in the eye of the beholder.
Perhaps you have missed the significance of this the OPs post.
Micro transactions imply small amounts of money. Most games that use micro-transactions won't ask more than 5$ at most for things like these. And thats cutting it close. Valves MANN-CO is only as successful as it is because its based around TEAM FORTRESS 2 in which the main reason to look different is because you interact with other people that look exactly the same as you. And even there a different hat is no more than 3 $ at most. Pricing shirts, at around 20 dollars a piece is simply idiotic. Everyone that has a monocle right now will be the laughing stock of EVE because they were gullible and idiotic enough to spend 80 dollars to buy a piece of digital eyeware.
I'd rather pay 2 or 3 dollars more for my monthly subscription then having to see CCP act scrooge MC duck or worse... ACTIVISION! 
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Somewhere beyond happyness and sadness, I need to calculate what creates my own madness o/ |
Captain Futur3
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Posted - 2011.06.22 12:17:00 -
[111]
Originally by: Fukov Andie
I get an idea what went wrong with the icelandic economy.
true.
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Valeroth Kyarmentari
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Posted - 2011.06.22 12:19:00 -
[112]
Well this is a bit silly. After sort of just defending the whole Aurum concept in another thread (the one about CEO's banning people who buy stuff). I find myself here. 1 Billion ISK for a piece of eyeware?
Well this is pretty silly. While I'm fine with anyone who wants to spend that kind money on a vanity item.
Rifters go for about 280,000 right? I certainly not going to pay more than that for anything I can't fly. I figured maybe I'd spend 10,000-20,000 ISK on something if it really caught my fancy.
1 Million for a Monocle?
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Aineko Macx
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Posted - 2011.06.22 12:20:00 -
[113]
MT = Macro Transaction, didn't you know?
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Probably Alt
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Posted - 2011.06.22 12:21:00 -
[114]
The price of these items sorta makes sense. Sure it isn't for everyone and cost a $hit load in isk. However, CCP has stated for a while they wanted to reign in some of the isk accumulation that occurs. Giving vanity items to the vain accomplishes this. Lets face it, those who play so much and accumulate trillions in isk will spend isk on this to pimp out their avatars thus accomplishing a small part of their goal.
I can see an entire alliance elite and leaders demanding their eye patches from their corps. The narcissistic leaders will raise corp taxes because they need to prove to other alliances they have the isk to just throw away on pointless novelties.
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Iggy Stooge
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Posted - 2011.06.22 12:25:00 -
[115]
Don't worry, I have a Monocle BPO.
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Bomberlocks
Minmatar
CTRL-Q
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Posted - 2011.06.22 12:27:00 -
[116]
Originally by: Fukov Andie
I get an idea what went wrong with the icelandic economy.
Yes, the similarities are most definitely there.
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jk scowling
Sane Industries Inc.
Initiative Mercenaries
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Posted - 2011.06.22 12:28:00 -
[117]
Originally by: Probably Alt
The price of these items sorta makes sense. Sure it isn't for everyone and cost a $hit load in isk. However, CCP has stated for a while they wanted to reign in some of the isk accumulation that occurs. Giving vanity items to the vain accomplishes this. Lets face it, those who play so much and accumulate trillions in isk will spend isk on this to pimp out their avatars thus accomplishing a small part of their goal.
I can see an entire alliance elite and leaders demanding their eye patches from their corps. The narcissistic leaders will raise corp taxes because they need to prove to other alliances they have the isk to just throw away on pointless novelties.
The isk is still in the system though, it's a plex sink not an isk sink.
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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
Amarr
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Posted - 2011.06.22 12:35:00 -
[118]
Originally by: CCP Guard
Guys, I didn't mean to offend with my little wordplay there. Sorry if I did. A more serious reply to your concerns and questions regarding pricing of virtual goods is coming. The workday started not long ago over here and most of us were up late monitoring initial reactions and spinning our dudes in CQ. We are piecing together the different opinions and we'll do our best to address all of them.
Thank you all for your patience.
In the eye of this beholder, a skirt is NOT worth 3 months of gameplay. God protect us when Cash Cows Paradise eventually gets to sell ship paintjobs... 
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Ghoest
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Posted - 2011.06.22 12:43:00 -
[119]
Originally by: CCP Guard
It's all in the eye of the beholder.
Ill fix that for you.
Originally by: CCP Guard
Youre dumb we know youll pay what ever we ask.
Wherever you went - Here you are.
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Maeve Kelly
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Posted - 2011.06.22 12:43:00 -
[120]
Crosspost from a similar thread....
Originally by: Maeve Kelly
OMG...I just saw a picture of this thing. Why would anyone want the monocle in the first place? It is FUGLY! Give me some awesome looking steam punk goggles, then we can talk.
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