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Mike Azariah
DemSal Corporation DemSal Unlimited
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Posted - 2014.05.24 08:25:00 -
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Xenuria wrote:This year at fanfest a CCP dev said that when the plex market was peaking, he took it upon himself to artificially modify the game economy. I have a few questions about this.
1. If a player has enough in-game currency to buy all the plex on the Jita market, if that player within their right to do so?
2. If the same player puts all this plex into a cargo container and then blows up said container, has this player violated any rules?
3. Should any of the above listed events occur what safety measures are in place to prevent CCP from counter acting this large scale change in the market?
1) Yes, I have never seen a '9 items or less ' conditional on purchases
2) Rules of common sense, perhaps. Game rules? Nope
3) I will lay odds one or two devs would rub their hands in glee to get to see 'what happens next'
BUT
A dev messed with our economy? Oh lordy, say it aint so. I shall right this wrong and have the scoundrel removed from the company in the same manner that I had Ripard removed for abuse of CSM's awesome power.
Even if the person in question was one of my favourite people to get to talk to and his presentations were well attended anytime he spoke with us mortals. Even if he did not a single thing to the economy in all of 2013 and has specific rules for when he will not be interfere that make Starfleets prime directive look anemic by comparison.
He will be gone, so sayeth I
He will be missed. a lot.
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Mike Azariah
DemSal Corporation DemSal Unlimited
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Posted - 2014.05.24 20:20:00 -
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Cygnet Lythanea wrote:
So, here we have them admitting that they 'fixed' the price of plex. So what's to stop them from manipulating it to drive the price up and both force more poorer players to pay for their subs, while wealthier ones splurge on plex to pad their in game wallets?
See, this is where the sandbox and CCPs income diverge. All they have to do is find balance point where it's high enough to pad their income, but not so high as to drive off players, and then keep it there.
Um, No
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie9V2P5El0E time stamp 29:39
They fixed the stability, not the price. Dr Eyjo said they do NOT have a specific target for plex prices
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Mike Azariah
DemSal Corporation DemSal Unlimited
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Posted - 2014.05.24 21:32:00 -
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The police do not give you a speeding ticket for being a set distance from an arbitrary point, they do depending on the RATE which you move. It is the change that is the difference, not the instantaneous position.
In the same regard the price of the plex was not the concern but the RATE at which it was changing. That was when he used his tools to adjust our speeding. NOt the price but the rate at which the price was changing.
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Mike Azariah
DemSal Corporation DemSal Unlimited
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Posted - 2014.05.25 06:36:00 -
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Xenuria wrote:
If there is even the smallest chance that CCP would intervene at all to prevent the market from crashing then it flies in the face of "the sandbox". That's all I am saying.
So for the purity of the sand you would watch it all burn until it was a plane of glass.
Well, in this I disagree.
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Mike Azariah
DemSal Corporation DemSal Unlimited
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Posted - 2014.05.25 18:48:00 -
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Oh I love the question 'who owns the sandbox'
It often comes from the same sort of person who tells me that they 'pay my salary' because I am a public employee and so I should do whatever it is they wish.
Easily answered. If CCP decides to shut the doors tomorrow, could we stop them? No?
If we walk away from the game, all of us. Could they leave the servers running anyways? They probably wouldn't but the choice would always be theirs, it is their box, we play in it and pay for the privelege.
We play in their sandbox, they get to say where the edges are. What toys we can bring into the box and what we are allowed to take out of it. I am amazed how much freedom the Eve Market has, how little they actually interfere.
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