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JC Anderson
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Posted - 2014.05.30 17:33:00 -
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When they introduced PLEX it was a compromise both to combat RMT and make it easier for people playing the game that couldn't afford it to actually continue playing.
The time codes had been around for ages, and PLEX was a more secure extension of that. Not to mention that PLEX can actually be dropped, looted, destroyed ETC.
Though in the end, ISK really isn't the defining factor of a players potential in the game. Somebody in a Rifter with tech 1 fittings can still kill somebody flying around in a ship that cost billions of isk to buy and fit.
At which point, the isk is gone and the lost assets won't simply respawn as it is in the majority of MMO's. |
JC Anderson
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Posted - 2014.05.30 17:44:00 -
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Cipher Jones wrote:SurrenderMonkey wrote:Cipher Jones wrote:
Nope. You can pay for you very first PLEX in game with money you earned, without ever paying a dime of real currency.
The bold parts are where it stops being free. Its exactly as free as WOT or any other F2P out there. It costs zero spendable currency and some amount of time.
Well the point is SOMEBODY bought that PLEX with real money to sell to the player who then uses it to fund his sub.
It would be one thing if PLEX was seeded on the market, but that is not the case.
Not to mention that the ISK you are getting in return is part of the games economy, as are the ships and equipment purchased with that ISK. Somebody, somewhere manufactured those goods. Which isn't the same as just purchasing items that appear from thin air in game as it would be with other F2P MMO's. |
JC Anderson
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Posted - 2014.05.30 20:00:00 -
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Altessa Post wrote:For me, Plex was always a mixed bag.
I was rather proud when I made my first bio ISK, --- and then Plex were introduced. Little Jimmy could now slaughter his piggy bank and buy himself a bio ISK. My "accomplishment" was vaporized. For an industrialist, this was a bit frustrating.
On the other hand, it makes sense that CCP profits from the RMT and not somebody else. I also understand that a lot of PvPers fail at making ISK. Being able to jump in with the piggy bank helps those players to enjoy the game more.
Industry lost a bit of meaning. PvP is easier. All in all, more people enjoy the game and CCP stays afloat.
We live with it.
Technically Industry doesn't take a hit or lose meaning.
The ISK that these people are buying is from the economy pool generated by the players who actually made that ISK in game. That very same ISK is what is used to purchase goods that Industrialist manufacture.
If there was nobody making money in game, there would be nobody to buy that PLEX from the individuals selling it. On the other hand, If these very same PVP'ers suddenly stopped buying ships from the people who manufacture them, Industry does lose a bit of meaning. |
JC Anderson
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Posted - 2014.06.02 09:39:00 -
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Keep in mind that without the current plex system, Eve would lose a large number of players.
The option only exists because of the fact that people are reselling it to other polayers. No plex for isk = no way to pay for subscription using purely In game currency.
I've paid for my sub the normal way over the last 9 years, but I know tons of people that sub via plex. Many of them simply could not afford to play the game with real money. |
JC Anderson
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Posted - 2014.06.03 20:37:00 -
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Many of the same people complaining about the ability to sell PLEX for ISK, are also admitting that they pay their subs with PLEX.
How does this make any sense? You are the ones giving the isk to the people selling PLEX. :P |
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