TheLieutenant13
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Posted - 2011.06.28 14:06:00 -
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A true politician's answer. He does apologize for the insulting aspect of the last blog, which was a big factor in our negative response. However, our biggest concern is the fact that game-play affecting items could be sold in the Noble Exchange in the near future.
Not selling 'Gold Ammo' to me, means they will sell market items through the Noble Exchange, just not things we can't already purchase through the market.
That said, I'm not sure how well CSM will hold up, seeing as CCP already has plans for selling these items, but at very least we can get CSM to solidify that no items better than what is currently on the market will be sold via the Noble Exchange.
Quit fooling yourselves, the answer is quite clear, Yes non-vanity items will be sold, but they will be the same items we can purchase on the market.
- We hope.
They whole point is to create a PLEX sink other than ISK and Gametime. Lets just say that half of all PLEX is sold for isk which never gets reconverted back into gametime. This ISK is lost in ships, ammo, modules... anything, you name it. CCP can create these things on a whim. The other half of PLEX eventually makes it into being added Gametime. In terms of having increased revenue, adding Gametime is bad, and losing PLEX to valueless items, is good.
So with the Noble Exchange, where only PLEX can be used as currency, items that are otherwise unavailable are sold. As to the exact nature of these items is uncertain, the best we could hope for is Vanity only items, or at the minimum, no items that wouldn't be otherwise available on the EvE market.
The goal is to reduce the percentage of PLEX added to Gametime and Increase the percentage of PLEX used to purchase in-game items through the emerging market that is, The Noble Exchange.
With monocles going for 1.4bil isk or $68, a battleship on the Noble Exchange will need to be priced in similarity (probably slightly less than) a battleship sold on ISK markets, otherwise the point of the new PLEX sink is lost. So the expectation is that any items that are also available through EvE market will be priced closely to what the eve market item is going for, but as for vanity items... the prices may never change, but just don't buy them :)
We can only hope CCP isn't so greedy that they price everything on the Noble Exchange for like half of its EvE market value... Economic Collapse.
Good Luck CSM, we are with you.
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