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Six Six Six
Republic Military School
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Posted - 2013.05.23 13:36:00 -
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EVE is already F2P if you earn enough in-game to pay for it in PLEX.
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Six Six Six
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.05.23 14:35:00 -
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Sentamon wrote:Is this a stealth nerf highsec thread?
It seemed more like a how to ruin the game thread to me. |
Six Six Six
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.05.23 14:56:00 -
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Mag's wrote:The simply way to look at it is that individuals may play for free, but as a Plex can only exist through RL cash, it means Eve isn't free to play. It's a rather elegant solution.
But then you could say the same about F2P shops, those buying from the shop ensures that it can afford to be F2P. |
Six Six Six
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.05.23 15:29:00 -
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Mag's wrote:Six Six Six wrote:Mag's wrote:The simply way to look at it is that individuals may play for free, but as a Plex can only exist through RL cash, it means Eve isn't free to play. It's a rather elegant solution. But then you could say the same about F2P shops, those buying from the shop ensures that it can afford to be F2P. The point is that with Eve, the Plex's core purpose is to supply gametime. That''s the difference.
The point I was trying to make is PLEX can only exist through RL cash, but so does F2P accounts in F2P games due to people using the F2P shops.
So people buying PLEX from CCP fund the accounts via PLEX in exchange for isk of people that use the PLEX to extend their game time. People that use an F2P shops are funding those accounts that never use the F2P shops. So I don't really see that much difference. |
Six Six Six
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.05.23 15:40:00 -
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Helios Aquiness wrote:
Make some one else pay 2 play or as I call it. MSOEP2P
I thought that was the point, no matter which F2P model you chose, someone else is paying for those that don't. |
Six Six Six
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.05.23 22:00:00 -
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Stonkeep wrote:The future MMO industry going to be a very different one from the one we know, this is pretty obvious.
It is, but after 30 years of gaming it's also the reason I play less and less MMOs and games like Mass Effect, Dragon Age and Skyrim. I see myself ceasing to be a gamer in the not too distant future. As far as MMOs are concerned I'm now just down to EVE, so if I lose interest here then that will be the end of it. |
Six Six Six
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.05.23 22:48:00 -
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Shaco LaRusko wrote:Brainless Bimbo wrote:lots of accounts are free to play atm thanks to the introduction of PLEX Free to play means that CCP gets no money unless you choose to spend it. Someone already bought that plex. CCP got paid. You put in hard labor to have a month to play. It may not cost you the end user money but it was hardly free.
The way I look at it is making isk in-game is free as it's only leisure time and if people count all their leisure time as having a monetary value then why aren't they out working and earning real money instead of playing games. As far as I'm concerned and I'm sure others probably feel this way, leisure time does not have any monetary value.
Other F2P games will not be free either as someone is paying for you to play albeit indirectly. Some of those F2P games are only partially free anyway as they have restrictions unless you subscribe but those are usually ones that were converted due to falling subscriptions. |
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