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Bootleg Jack
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Posted - 2011.09.02 16:15:00 -
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PLEX makes the entire economy a joke and to some extent the game; being a rich corp, pointless, any nuub with mommys CC is richer. Control systems? Why? For ISK when the people invading have 10 spare ships all bought with PLEX?
This is why I always wondered why people cared about AUR.
You can buy a carrier for RL $$ and no one seems to mind, but god forbid someone buy clothing 
Everything this game could be, the entire sandbox, is undermined by PLEX.
If you can get you RL funded ship relaced in minutes in PvP then really, this PvP is no different that WoW; may as well just have everyones ship be replaced in space on a 30 second timer.
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Bootleg Jack
Potters Field
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Posted - 2011.09.02 18:51:00 -
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 Originally by: Whatisthis Idon'teven
PLEX is a good thing. What some people don't seem willing to understand is that the money has to exist in-game for someone to buy a PLEX - a PLEX itself isn't capable of spontaneously spawning ISK out of thin air like many things in EVE (missions and ratting for example).
It can be used to keep someone active if they want more than one account but can't or don't want to pay for the additional monthly fees (so therefore more ships, and potential targets, online).
They can also be used by people who can't afford the regular monthly subscription with a single account due to RL constraints or even just because of a difficult month. Not everybody's financial situation is the same and in this situation PLEX is a great enabler.
If PLEX were removed the subscriber base would plummet and CCP would receive even less funding to maintain and develop EVE. RMT would also return with a vengeance.
But then the same people complaining about PLEX would just continue their forum whining about the lack of concurrent subscribers online at any time, and even more anti-RMT threadnaughts would pop up. 
I fail to see any downside to PLEX, seriously.
Player buys PLEXs
Player sells PLEXs
Player buys 10 ships for PvP
Players corp made up of PLEX players steamrolls sov
Who really gives a damm that a botter in some system on the other side of EVE "earned" the ISK?
EVE is supposed to be as much about player enterprise versus player enterprise as it is pew pew, player enterprise is basically pointless.
Without the enterprise this may as well all be ported to a console app.
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Bootleg Jack
Potters Field
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Posted - 2011.09.02 19:01:00 -
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That distinction is only valid when you ignore the security zone differences in EVE and if you ignore volumes, it sounds fine for 1 PLEX, but not when it is 10, 20 or more getting paid to one player who could NEVER earn that much in such a short period even if he had the time.
Sure the gravy example sounds wonderful.
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