Maman Brigitte
Licentia Ex Vereor
Intergalactic Exports Group
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Posted - 2011.06.29 04:49:00 -
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 Originally by: Kal Aith
Originally by: Neroon Kashada
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O7 OP
The overeaction to the MT store and the price of the vanity items is quite simply childish. Some of these people are acting like CCP is coming over to there house, puttting a gun to there head and demanding they purchase items like the monocle from the MT store. And given what has been said by CCP, items like the monocle are meant to be prestigious, ie rare. And how do you do that?? Either making it a very rare npc drop or BINOG make it very expensive. And many players seem to ignore the fact plex can still be bought with isk so no real life cash needs to be spent on the monocle. And lastly since Cash=Plex=Isk, EVERY SINGLE ITEM THAT CAN BE PURCHASED in the game from a lowly frigate to a massive titan has an INDIRECT REAL LIFE CASH VALUE.
pretty much this
Actually no. Right now PLEX = Game time, so money used to purchase PLEX is, one way or another, ultimately going to the same purpose of subscription fees. PLEX has no real-money value, its value is the same value as everything else in EVE: TIME. How much isk that TIME is worth is entirely dependent on market forces.
However, as soon as you introduce a system whereby PLEX may be removed from the system for a currency which represents real dollars for microtransactions, you have introduced real money directly to the game. The same amount of dollars buys you the same amount of PLEX which in turn buys you the same amount of AUR. The exchange rate between ISK and AUR may vary, but the exchange rate between the AUR and the dollar is invariable.
The difference is actually not subtle at all. AUR establishes, in a very real sense, an exchange rate between ISK and the Dollar, rather than between ISK and game-time. This means that real money now directly impacts the game economy, where before its impact was passive and subject to EVE's market forces.
If you don't think real money directly impacts the game economy, watch the price of PLEX over the next year. PLEX are no longer game time, they may be converted to game time, but have other uses. This means their price will go up. An increase in the price of PLEX in ISK means an increase in the price of GAME TIME in ISK.
I'm not opposed to that inherently... actually I think it's kinda nice having an exchange rate between ISK and the dollar, but it's just inaccurate to imply that they're not changing anything big here.
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