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Posted - 2011.07.08 16:11:00 -
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 Originally by: Gnulpie
Originally by: Ketaros Thunderclap
The whole point is simple, and resumes to a marvelous simple move:
- Make AUR be only bought with real money, without ANY connection with ISK.
Makes little sense. They would need to invent the wheel again, especially the trouble with accounting, billing etc. is way too high. Actually nothing useful can be gained by introducing a second, completely independent currency into EVE. Instead you have only PLEX and fractions of PLEX called Aur. They should have called it Plexicent instead of Aur though. The integration of Aur into EVE (through PLEX) is a great move and a very good thing.
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I know PLEX was a big business mistake you guys did, dont try to correct a mistake doing another.
CCP, do the math, separate real money from ISK, ASAP. I know MANY will hate me for saying this...
PLEX was the second best thing CCP ever did, the best one was GTC.
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In the last 4 years I have been a Market Player on EVE, and I know and CCP know that like me there are few other players more kidding with 3 digits billions ISK accounts, that we could be the one interested by this tyer/clothing thing, make profit or even make our avatar look cool, but I can tell right away: we are not. I know for fact thats not a game thing being placed for those like me who play EVE like a Market Tycoon.
They aren't aiming for you. They are trying to attract *shock* new players! A different kind of player, those that like dress up etc. Too difficult to understand that? Looks like.
Are you actually moronic enough to think that a brand new player to eve is going to look at the NeX store prices and NOT Balk? Most new players will take 6 months or more to actually make enough isk a month to buy a plex each month AND be able to afford ships/skills in the same month. With the isk values of these items they are never going to be able to pay with ingame isk for these items, which just leaves real money and with those costs it will be a no-go.
I'm not someone who has a problem with MT when done right but everything that CCP has done with introducing the NeX has been so wrong it's just shocking. It just smacks of no planning and amateurish design of the worst kind. This dev blog has done nothing to explain HOW they came up with these prices, what games they used as reference or who these so called external 'consultants' were. Instead we got a couple of paragraphs and a random picture which gives us virtually no information besides the fact that CCP has decided to price their items in 3 tiers: Stupid ****ing expensive, ******ed ****ing expensive and ZOMG we're vikings super stupid ******ed ****ing expensive.
Oh and CCP FYI calling them vanity items is really a bit of a misnomer, players buy these COSMETIC items in games because THEY like how they look, not because they give two ****s how other people think they look, and this is maybe a large part of your problem. |