Originally by: My Facebook Comment on June 25

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Dear CCP,

Here's an idea. Try and make good use of another growing business trend/model: Social responsibility. The way I try to put this into play as a consumer is by paying a fair price for the goods and services provided and repeating my business. I will ♦ willingly pay more ♦ if it means that 1) I get more of your quality goods and services and 2) your reputation and business model/culture is sustained and propagated as "good business."

My experience with EVE Online, thus partly why I enjoy it so much, has been that the player-base is [caring and] mature. Test and see if the players don't latch onto the idea of taking care of you as you take care of us, preserving the integrity of and sustaining the existence of your company. Set the tone, tell us your hopes for and expectations of the players and we can help you to blaze trails with our MMORPG player culture, conduct and attitude. From where I sit, that's a powerful thing!

CCP -if you really want to grow and expand, look to the player-base you have nurtured. We fight so vehemently because we ♥ LOVE ♥ this game and what you have given us so very much. I'm sure I'm not the only one that adores the CCP culture and innovations we read about in the dev blogs and gaming magazines: Some of them compel me to feel ♦ PROUD ♦ to be part of that as a patron of your offerings. I would be more than happy to combine my EVE subscription with a DUST514 subscription, say for $3-5 more a month or something.
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Regarding micro-Transactions, my personal stance is this:
So long as micro-transaction inventory is limited to "fluff", as one person in the Fearless newsletter puts it, I take no issue with the system. When players can outright pay for an advantage, that's where I draw the line. I have*adored* EVE (got that CCP? EVE is my first, one and only MMORPG love) because it doesn't have a micro-transaction system that allows whiny, impatient, intellectually-challenged people to pay for big guns, big advantages and the ability to grief others through their monetary might.

I can't turn a blind-eye toward which has paved the way for micro- transactions: PLEX. From where I sit, PLEX has been a testbed for micro-transactions, and thus far, I'm sure it has proven to be quite successful. But it is nonetheless an essentially roundabout way of legally purchasing ISK, and thus an advantage, but what's done is done. It cannot be undone. But I cannot advocate taking it further than what already exists, so please don't press the matter.
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♥,
A Smitten CCP patron

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