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Thirasis en Daire
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Posted - 2011.06.27 03:11:00 -
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Edited by: Thirasis en Daire on 27/06/2011 03:16:02
It is always good when angry with a company to read up on them and see what might or might not be going on within a company and employee review can help with that.
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/CCP-Games-Reviews-E159347.htm CCP reviews from the inside.
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Thirasis en Daire
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Posted - 2011.06.27 03:33:00 -
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i found this part pretty ****ty...
"Several years now CCP has predicated insane subscriber goals that cannot be met. Naturally this is met with scepticism by the employees but it falls on deaf ears. The result is that the company is suffering because we cannot sustain the development of EVE, DUST and WOD. EVE is not creating enough revenue which means that solutions are sought, solutions that CCP was vehemently against a few years ago."
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Thirasis en Daire
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Posted - 2011.06.27 03:41:00 -
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 Originally by: OverlordY
anyone can write those..... herp derp tbh
True but some go back to 2008 before all this nonsense and they all seem to be pretty consistent.
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Thirasis en Daire
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Posted - 2011.06.27 04:07:00 -
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Originally by: Ded Moroz
Originally by: alexreborn
Edited by: alexreborn on 27/06/2011 03:36:44
That doesn't make sense.
If you look at how many PLEX's exist on the in game market, technically CCP HAS SOLD so much game time BEFORE it has even been used.
THAT MEANS they have the money in ADVANCE for game time they will have to provide in the future.
Do you realize how amazingly brilliant this is. I fail to see how they could be losing money...... then again, if they are losing players faster then they are gaining players I can see the problem.
Hopefully the new training/help tutorial stuff will help get new guys in game easier. They need to spend money to get players in game, not wearing monocoles.
It might be smart, but it is also extremely short-sighted in a ruthless game like Eve. What they basically did was bet their whole income model on an in-game economy. Now imagine this: the price of PLEX somehow drops to 50mil isk (could be done if there are enough PLEX floating in the system and they end up in the hands of few people who are organized). If price of PLEX was 50mil isk, all of a sudden people buy them and apply to their accounts as game time. If plex was 50mil ISK, and I bought 20 of them and applied to my account, all of a sudden CCP loses 20 months of my subscription. 300 dollars of steady income over 20 months all for a quick leveraged 300 dollars that somebody spent in the past (and these $300 is probably tied up in another project).
What CCP did with PLEX system was leverage fast money (probably to fund dust/wod). What they risk, however is that a powerful enough group of players all of a sudden can really screw their party by crashing out PLEX prices via in-game manipulation. They leveraged RL money with the help of in-game economy.
This kind of risk is a bit insane for any real corporation. They need to reduce it. This is where Aurum comes in. They have to find a way to make these potentially dangerous stockpiles of plex to be converted into silly crap like monocles.
A CCP's competitor could really screw them over right now using their own game.
And if they were to bring in say game altering items that could appear out of thin air simply by converting some plex into another currency they could quickly drop the plex supply causing more to be bought and gain some revenue very quickly which would leave them in the same spot a few years down the road when the stockpile grew again.
All this assuming that the subs lost after all this would not decrease current revenue by much.
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Thirasis en Daire
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Posted - 2011.06.27 04:33:00 -
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So CCP wants to expand and sells plex which generates large revenue fast so they can put two new games into development, which eventually leads to a large in game stockpile of plex and very low revenue now.
This all leads to MT so that CCP can deplete the plex market and generate more revenue.
and the guy POSSIBLE responsible for this is Joseph Gallo who was a big wig for Citigroup before the recent economy bubble.
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Thirasis en Daire
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Posted - 2011.06.27 14:23:00 -
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Originally by: alexreborn
Originally by: Ded Moroz
Edited by: Ded Moroz on 27/06/2011 04:20:09
I dont think Aur was ever designed to be bought with RL $$. If it was, we would be buying AUR directly from CCP, not plex.
What it was designed to do, i think, was to diffuse the potentially toxic to CCP stockpiles of plex in-game (a potential financial liability for the RL company).
Never thought of it like that. Brilliant post.
So the question in the end is how many people really would un-sub if it went beyond vanity items and would be the resulting effect on revenue because i really could not be mad at CCP for making a move that made them a lot more money that is just how the world is.
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