Rath Kelbore wrote:
Look, I'm sorry you feel bad, I sympathize with the victim in the same manner I sympathize with a noob that gets his first battleship blown up on accident or whatever, but your whole way of thinking about this is incorrect.
As soon as you redeem PLEX it is exactly like every other in game item. It is able to be sold, bought, traded, contracted, scammed, exploded, dropped, ect. Maybe that should be made more clear when you are purchasing plex if it isn't already(I haven't bought plex with dollars in awhile).
The system for a plex auction you are describing is EXACTLY what the market does already with the exception of it being "different" than the regular market window. 5 - 10 percent below top price obviously shows up, but you can sort by price so that isn't an issue.
You're right in that there isn't any good reason for this sort of thing to continue. That reason being people should be intelligent/diligent enough to not get scammed. It's not like anyone forced him to not take the time to understand what it was that he was doing. He didn't get tripped, slip, then fall onto the accept button. It's very much his own fault.
If I misread a contract and give someone a billion isk for one tritanium, should that be dealt with by CCP. You'll say no of course not, but plex is different. Well what if I bought a bunch of plex, sold that plex for isk, then gave a billion isk for a tritanium piece? According to your thinking should I not get my money I spent on the plex back??
Hopefully you see how your logic unravels?
EVE is the only MMO worth playing for more than a few weeks due to the fact that there are pretty real consequences to your actions. Sometimes people get taken advantage of, there's nothing to be done about it without ruining what EVE is. If you still feel that something needs to be done, then I suggest you do something about it, instead of asking CCP to change the game to your way of thinking without consideration to other people's thoughts.
That is a well presented argument. And I agree with the idea that Eve should be a place that has real consequences for not being intelligent and diligent. I like the fact that it is unforgiving.
But the first rule of Eve is don't fly what you cant afford to lose. The problem with PLEX is that it forces inexperienced pilots to handle an in-game item that
a: they cannot afford to loose and
b: are not experienced enough to make intelligent and diligent decisions about.
This kid and many more like him will not send CCP any more money. That will cause the price of PLEX to go up. I'm surprised more of the ftp guys aren't up in arms about this. The only players who benefit from PLEX being an in-game item are scammers. They don't create content and they don't make Eve dark and gritty; they sit in station and screw up local. The game will be better without them.
It really comes down to what Epeen said, the PLEX program is taking money away from CCP in the form of lost deposits. Simple as that.