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Zagdul
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Posted - 2011.07.08 11:40:00 -
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Hello CCP Zinfandel,
Has the potential for a 3rd party or standalone development tool been discussed to possibly allow for players to design their own clothes?
My thought process behind this if you'll hear me out for a moment.
CCP is trying to allow for 3rd party devs to make money, real money. If those developers were able to create clothing and put it into an EVE store where they received a royalty from CCP themselves for the development of something, I think it would kill a lot of birds with a single stone and provide for a way that everyone can contribute to EVE.
This later can be further developed into "addons" that people can create if you were to develop a framework that is releasable to the public to do things like, create restaurants/homes/hotels/toy stores/body augmentation/barber shops/hat shops...
The possibilities are endless for everything to furniture manufacturers all the way through commercial design for store fronts and display cases.
This is a HUGE project for CCP to undertake and quite possibly if the framework for something that the community can develop, you'd allow for more player generated content, a way for CCP and the players to make some money and an entire mini-game within the EVE universe to allow for complete immersion.
Thank you for taking the time to read my long winded idea. |
Zagdul
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Posted - 2011.07.08 11:43:00 -
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Edited by: Zagdul on 08/07/2011 11:45:54
Originally by: Jada Maroo
Originally by: CCP Zinfandel
We aren't making a lot of money but that's not the point.
Any questions?
Yes.
A while back, a company called Apple discovered that if you sell songs for 99 cents people will buy them. Using this information, and combining it with an intuitive interface, the company became wildly successful and fabulously wealthy.
You, on the other hand, have decided to market $60 sets of virtual clothes hardcore geeks who are here to blow up spaceships and to casual newcomers with no real ties to the game. In fact the only group you've had any success with are forum trolls who use monocles as tear dispensors and even those are one-time purchases.
So my question is: When is the last time you updated your resume?
Hi.
I think the point you and a LOT of people have missed is that if they had released the lower tier first on the Incarna release, a metric fu%Kton of PLEX's would have been cashed in for AUR and the market would have literally crashed.
Originally by: CCP Zinfandel Hey guys,
Important note here. This is about learning. We need to learn about this stuff. We are just dipping our toes into the water here, seeing how this all works while being careful not to mess up the economy. So far, we've been successful at protecting the EVE economy. PLEX prices on the ISK market are currently unaffected.
We aren't making a lot of money but that's not the point.
Any questions?
Bolded and underlined the important part you may have read over.
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Zagdul
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Posted - 2011.07.08 11:47:00 -
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Originally by: Hosiden
Quote: An exceptional tier is rumored to exist that represents a very special and rare investment for the wealthiest members of the EVE community.
Am i the only one that find this abit disturbing?
I don't.
They're vanity items.
Stuff that doesn't effect gameplay.
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Zagdul
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Posted - 2011.07.08 11:55:00 -
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Originally by: Jada Maroo
Originally by: Zagdul
Hi.
I think the point you missed and a LOT of people have missed is that if they had released the lower tier first on the Incarna release, a metric fu%Kton of PLEX's would have been cashed in for AUR and the market would have literally crashed.
Oh no, I've thought about that and I agree with you. But that's not an excuse to make the items $50-60.
That just proves AUR shouldn't come from breaking up PLEX. AUR should just be purchased with money, pure and simple. Or even take out the AUR entirely and just give me a price list. Then make everything 99 cents to a maximum of 4.99.
They would have had me there, and I would have bought stuff from the NEX store.
Excuse?
lol, you're not getting it.
If CCP released a ton of items on launch people could get for... I don't know, lets say $3-5.
PLEX's would have been bought up by EVERYONE in eve, all at once.
This would RUIN the eve economy and the complaints would be FAR worse.
In other words, allow CCP to slowly introduce items. Allow for people to get a little AUR in their wallets over time. When more people have the new currency and it's more wide spread, then it won't have an effect on PLEX prices which just happen to be one of the main controlling factors to how EVERYTHING in eve is priced.
If PLEX prices go up, so does the cost of battleships/modules... everything produced by players.
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Zagdul
Gallente Shadowed Command Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2011.07.08 12:01:00 -
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Originally by: Jens Beckstrom Edited by: Jens Beckstrom on 08/07/2011 11:55:31 It should be free of charge, period! We pay a mothly fee, if you cant make it for that, then dont.
And incarna is possebly the worst expansion ever, it ads verry little new, its partialy broken, and you make realy ugly monocles (and then you manage to be proud of it). Remove it and work some more, and then ship it out again for christmas. It's bugged, ugly, and if you cant even deliver all the races its not even worth to release.
Good work on the Maller though, its become awsome!
It is.
If you would like, you can go out and run missions to get some isk then buy a PLEX on the market.
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Zagdul
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Posted - 2011.07.08 12:07:00 -
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Originally by: Jada Maroo
Originally by: Zagdul
Excuse?
lol, you're not getting it.
Drr, apparently you missed the part about how AUR shouldn't be tied with PLEX at all. For someone who complains about people not reading whole messages, you sure seem to suffer from that problem yourself.
OK, there's a second issue with PLEX.
There's a LOT out there and the super (ISK Rich) in EVE are hording them and playing market games.
There also needs to be a PLEX sink outside of cashing them in for game time and was something that was brought up a while back in one of the reports.
I can't quite remember the exact quote, but it was right about when PLEX's were made able to undock with and the forums went insane when 72 of them were destroyed on the Jita undock in a Kestral. |
Zagdul
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Posted - 2011.07.08 12:12:00 -
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Originally by: DeBingJos
Originally by: Jada Maroo
Originally by: Zagdul
Excuse?
lol, you're not getting it.
Drr, apparently you missed the part about how AUR shouldn't be tied with PLEX at all. For someone who complains about people not reading whole messages, you sure seem to suffer from that problem yourself.
Wasn't the whole idea behind AUR to create a PLEX-sink? The more PLEX get converted to AUR the better as this was the purpose of AUR from the start.
This. |
Zagdul
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Posted - 2011.07.08 12:42:00 -
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Edited by: Zagdul on 08/07/2011 12:43:53
Originally by: Jada Maroo Edited by: Jada Maroo on 08/07/2011 12:15:45
Originally by: Zagdul
OK, there's a second issue with PLEX.
There's a LOT out there and the super (ISK Rich) in EVE are hording them and playing market games.
There also needs to be a PLEX sink outside of cashing them in for game time and was something that was brought up a while back in one of the reports.
Fair enough, but you don't tie that into a transaction store like NEX which ought to be a mass market money maker for CCP. It doesn't sound like they're accomplishing their goal, and they're ruining a potential new source of revenue in the process.
If the problem is the super wealthy hoarding PLEXes, then target the aspects of Eve that require that amount of wealth. Require sov bills be paid in PLEX (maybe rename PLEX in the process), or something along those lines.
But skirts for PLEX? That just won't even solve the problem.
The problem is, people are toeing in this NeX store as a way for CCP to make a ton of $$$$.
While I'm sure their finance department would love this and the tinfoil hat wearers of EVE online would like to believe this is the sole purpose of the NeX store... it might very well be possible that CCP saw a potential problem with PLEX and is trying to correct a problem before the players destroy it.
This may be a stretch and I'm gonna get called every fanboy name in the book for this... but maybe CCP was looking out for the player's best interest all along?
Originally by: K'iran You expect us to pay 60 euro for some pixels, that don't do anything and will mostly look like CRAP in the current iteration of Incarna?
Are you ******ed?
No, they don't expect sh!t out of you.
You can chose to buy them or not.
They don't force you to, nor expect you to.
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