It doesnt make financial sense for CCP to do this. People would sell them on ebay for a low price and therefore CCP wouldn't get money for them. Basic economics tells you this is not going to happen enless CCP are feeling really generous. But even then it stinks of RMTing and I cant see CCP supporting that.

Hah. Last few posts make it obvious people don't actually read the thread before writing their walls of text. Like I said slightt miscalculation on my part, CCP would not lose any money due to this.

I'm not sure what is worse, my miscalculation, or peoples lack of reading ability.

Making it buyable via PLEX is basicly giving it away for free, as someone has already bought the PLEX and put it on the market.

What you just said. How is it being given away for free when the PLEX used to buy it is in tself bought from CCP.

Cause CCP already has the cash for the PLEX. They've made their profit. By making the CE buyable via PLEX it's basicly reducing the profit on the sale of the PLEX in the first place. They're much better off selling it seperate for cash.

Example:
1 - Person buys PLEX, CCP gets cash, someone buys for isk.
2 - Person buys PLEX, CCP gets cash, someone buys for isk - uses to get CE, CCP loses cash.

Example 1 gets them cash from PLEX and CE (assuming they want to buy it). Example 2 just loses them cash from the sales of the CE, as they already have the cash for the PLEXs.

Like i've already said, its not like people are going to suddenly start buying more PLEX to help out randoms that want to get the CE via PLEX.

Allow me to take you through it, step by step, with a nice hypothetical.

Introducting Mark. He's a big shot CEO of some global corporation. He makes cash, hand over fist, but is far too busy outsourcing jobs to China to have time to grind isk. He decides to spend his cash on 12 PLEX, CCP makes -ú179. He sells these in game for isk.

Introducing Luke. He's an overweight jobless middle-aged man still living in his parents basement. He's also the leader of a grand nullsec alliance, making isk hand over fist from moon-goo.

Now, assuming Luke wants to buy the CE, two things can happen.

1- If things remain as they are now, he's forced to buy it using cash, likely scrounged from his parents. So CCP has made -ú150! This is in addition to their PLEX sales. Mark didn't care where or what those PLEX were bought for, he just wanted the isk.

2 -If things were changed to that the CE could be bought via PLEX, thats no issue for isk-rich Luke. He gives Mark the isk for the PLEX he put on the market. So CCP effectively loses -ú150 they could have earned if the CE was exclusively available via cash.

In the first instance CCP gets -ú179 AND -ú150.
In the second CCP gets -ú179 MINUS -ú150.

So your counter-arguement boils down to that CCP will make this money anyways over the long-term subscription on our theoretical Luke, assuming he doesn't rage-quit of course. But you're forgetting that the PLEX has already been bought. CCP has already made their profit there. It makes them more profit to make the CE only buyable with cash. This isn't even taking into account the production costs of the CE itself. It's impossible for them to make a 100% profit.

I'll give it one final shot before giving up. There's only so many times I can facepalm.

Lets assume it costs them like -ú50 to produce the CE, so that would be -ú100 per unit sold.

Lets assume they are only selling 50 of them. Lets also assume that it takes about 12 PLEX to buy one CE. (12 = -ú179)

I'm not sure i can make this any clearer. From a pure-profit perspective, it makes much more sense to sell them for cash only. Your arguements about it boosting PLEX sales, and peoples continued subscription making up the differences doesn't work.

Of course it does. Just not yours. You still want the CE for no cash outlay.

What CCP is requesting, is that the people getting the CE are the ones paying out of pocket for it. That may change and I expect it will if there are not enough sales for cash.

But for now, you either pony up the bucks or whine in the forum about how unfair it is.

Mr Epeen