It's not unknown; it is right there in our wallets. The question is what its supposed use is.

It could simply be a means to pay your dustbunnies or to shop around on the Dust market, without no connection to EVE content. Want to protect your PI? Cough up the AUR and send it over, and that is where it gets its use in EVE. The NeX is not needed to make the link happen.
Just because you're on a slippery slope does not mean you shouldn't try to get off it. If CCP want their PLEX sink, fine, but everyone can just drop the pretence that it in any way benefits the gameplay of EVE and that its content wouldn't be better off coming from a regular source.

Introducing AUR to the EVE environment simply as a means to purchase DUST mercs, while entirely possible, would be extremely inefficient and limited when CCP can benefit financially from it's inclusion on other levels of the eve economy.

But that is also the whole point: EVE has zero need for the NeX, and only the most tenuous of needs for AUR. The need lies with CCP, not with the game GÇö in fact, as shown, both are actually rather harmful to the addition of EVE content since it steals away gameplay components from the game.

EVE has zero need for the NeX and AUR as a stand alone product, but it is not going to be a stand alone product. You know this.

The only content that the NeX has "stolen away" is content that would not exist without it's inclusion to begin with.

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However, at least my opinion is backed up with fact. It was, and presumably still is (until we hear otherwise) the next level of capability in the NeX store. That being to direclty include player industry. This directly addresses perhaps the single largest argument against the inclusion of the NeX store.

I have little doubt there were many reasons for the development of the NeX store (many of them being very small things that have been glossed over in most of these debates). Obviously a large number of those reasons are internal to CCP and center around increasing their revenue without an increase in their monthly subscription fee. If you fee that is an unworthy goal, or somehow dishonest, we regretably won't ever see eye to eye on this.

I refuse to believe that CCP is unaware that it is in their best interest to have the NeX store closely tied to player industry. So there you have it, hopefully not presented in a way that makes it seem like I refuse to acknowledge or deeply consider your point of view.

I honestly believe that CCP senior management were gulled by the "industry professionals" they hired who told them they could extract a large additional profit by making Incarna a MT vanity display cabinet. The outcome of being hoodwinked in that way has been a significant drop in subscription income coupled with painful personnel cuts. Now CCP have realized that this MT business can be dangerous to their survival as a company and next time they want to improve profits the "hey lets improve the game and maybe our subs will increase" argument will find more traction in the boardroom.

I want to believe this is true but since they haven't announced the end of the NeX even though they must know the amount of goodwill it would generate leads me to think otherwise.

Personally I don't think they are that stupid. Having lost the number of subs they did this summer and having now asked for feedback and analysis of the NeX rollout for management review I honestly don't think CCP is going to be as foolish as some of the proNeX players are.

Ships skins may be coming this winter, if the recent hints are anything to go by. The possibility that they'll be sold on the NeX store is very high

So new art is just vanity and just ok to throw it in the cash bandwagon?


By the same logic, might as well release blank white ships without textures, them being sold seperately.


It's just vanity right? Doesn't affect the game experience.

I can agree with you on principle that all items in Eve should be destructable but we'll obviously continue to differ on whether its appropriate for anything to be sold through NeX.

Allegedly so. I personally have my doubts. What I will say is that when I served as CSM chairman I met at least one graphic designer on the CCP payroll who was employed purely to design space fashions. I have no idea if the chap is still employed by CCP or if he was involved in the NeX clothing - but it does make me doubt the full separation of NeX development effort / subs money that you seem to be suggesting.

Ship skin = Vanity. I have no issue at all with it being on the Nex market. If your ship is destroyed however, you need to buy a new skin. Thats my view.

no, they shouldn't - they're a core part of the game

they also don't affect gameplay. just because something doesn't affect gameplay doesn't mean it should be in NeX, but something in NeX that doesn't affect gameplay is fine.


now if only they sold Logic implants in the nex, i would recommend you buy one - because your wetware sucks at it.

The reason I don't like the NeX store is that it doesn't add any gameplay to Eve.