It wasn't well received by the community.

I hear even Hilmar says Grr Goons now.

the golden ammo wasn't well received, the microtransactions are fine, and will be back shortly with the new paint jobs.

hopefully we can eventually get a working store and a QA pipeline set up to have a player studio of sorts, like the one DOTA and PS2 have.

player designed ships are awesome, and having "civilian" ships with unique models would be worth the PLEX. if only to ship spin or RP being a space trucker.

also, targets.

There was never any ccp statement about introducing 'golden ammo' what people were mad about was the fact that a monocle cost $70.

the myth that it was the microtransactions needs to die.

There was never any ccp statement about introducing 'golden ammo'

what people were mad about was the fact that a monocle cost $70.

the microtransactions are fine

It was introduced as a way to enable microtransactions in the game.

It wasn't well received by the community.

It was introduced as a way to enable microtransactions in the game.

Not really, no. That was just something that unequivocally drove the point home that CCP was trying to dabble in a business model that they were utterly clueless about and that they had lost every last bit of touch with the community. The monocles simply became the symbol of their absolute ignorance.

Why not just do it all with ISK? What is the purpose of having another currency?

If you want to talk about pay-to-win macrotransactions, Blizzard is introducing a feature next expansion where you can pay $60 to jump a character straight up to level 90. ;) Meanwhile, people whine about $2 to paint their ship and not affect game balance at all.

There was never any ccp statement about introducing 'golden ammo' what people were mad about was the fact that a monocle cost $70.

At the end of the day, you can buy 600m isk for $20, with which you can then buy ships, weapons ..... even skills essentially, via the char bazaar. We have legitimised macrotransactions, the playerbase has long since accepted it.


Adding microtransiactions of pointless cosmetic stuff really isn't going to make any difference.

You bring up the Ish Scorp? That's exactly what CCP is proposing with ship paints. I was never familiar with anyone from CCP wanting to do any golden ammo/power ships--IMO that's apocryphal unless someone has a link they can point to.

You bring up the Ish Scorp? That's exactly what CCP is proposing with ship paints. I was never familiar with anyone from CCP wanting to do any golden ammo/power ships--IMO that's apocryphal unless someone has a link they can point to.

I don't see it that way. It seems to me that the monocle has become adopted for exactly the purpose it was designed: space peen. [GǪ] In the fallout, the monocle has become the literal "in your face" reminder to some folks, the ultimate trolling tool

the golden ammo wasn't well received, the microtransactions are fine, and will be back shortly with the new paint jobs.

hopefully we can eventually get a working store and a QA pipeline set up to have a player studio of sorts, like the one DOTA and PS2 have.

player designed ships are awesome, and having "civilian" ships with unique models would be worth the PLEX. if only to ship spin or RP being a space trucker.

also, targets.

I'll toss in my .02 isk.

I was inactive during incarna's roll out (wife had a kiddo yay me) anyway, I heard about all the crap through the grape vine and was a tad disappointed that they killed WiS delvopment. But was happy they were going to fix space side.

As already said, Aurum is just so you can split between game money and real money. Otherwise you would toss the econmy out of whack.

I personally have no issues with the $70 monacal, or paint jobs, or clothing. TBH, I think CCP would take a small batch of devs and rework the nex store, give us MORE stuff to play with, that doesn't effect game play what so ever, and then see if people want it for a cycle. Because, it could honestly pay for the development of WiS without taking anything from other teams doing space stuff. It would in essence be a win win. Esp because you have that other hyped game that a lot of random eve players, who know nothing about why a lot of us remain here, are foaming at the mouth over. If ccp put in stuff they currently have, set better pricing, let plays play Space Barbie, they could in essence get the money to hire a few devs to work just on WiS. And in a few development cycles we could see the damn door open. And then that would be something else to tell people who they start rambling about that other game that's not even alpha yet.

Then you can still play in space, you subscription funds that, and the Aurum sells fund WiS. Both could be developed easily, but ccp needs to not do stupid crap like give you a better ship for Aurum, or this ammo that will melt shelds in one shot via any ship. or something. They already have things, just add them to nex, revamp it, and see. if people pay for the clothes and things, then it means we want MORE WiS.

just tossing that out there, I for one want the damn door open, and will gladly toss a plex at aurum to help make that **** happen

There was never any ccp statement about introducing 'golden ammo' what people were mad about was the fact that a monocle cost $70.