Solhild wrote:Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:Solhild wrote:The NeX store is still there. It's like a noose waiting to be tightened, a continuous threat. If the players were listened to, it should have disappeared in this expansion/patch.
I dissent. If the players had been listened to, the NEx store would be riddle with a hundred items already existing as market tabs, and with prices low enough so a set of top tier costed less than a PLEX and no top tier item was more expensive than a T1 battleship. And in a next incarnation, NEx would eventually get middle tier and high tier that actually were better than low tier.
You know, if players were (HAD BEEN!) listened to, the post-Crucible NEx would already have a meaningful set of items worth collecting, and a pricing structure set to match the industry standard for microtransactions.
Instead, we got 120 developers fired whereas CCP Zinfandel was not even scolded, nor has apologyzed, nor has fixed his personal botch (as far as we can tell), despite Zinfandel's botch was the largest individual contribution to the perfect shitstorm of last june.
And all we need to check is the NEx store and that cyan 5,500 Aur figure many fo us still have there as a sign of how much we feel like spending a bloody PLEX to get a single bloody skirt.
This is your right of course. So why not add items to the free market and LP stores and buy with isk and build in the sandbox? Some items could be loot drops etc.
If you want a shortcut then PLEX for the isk. I just fail to see why the NeX store is in any way a 'good' thing.
NEx store was intended to be a way to implement micro-transactions and earn money without damaging the game, and as a concept made (and makes) a lot of sense. This is why NEx must be fueled with cold cash payments aka PLEXes.
The path taken was convoluted but it could work if the thing had been done properly: a wide range of assets, a clear pricing strategy (WHY is THIS low, mdidle, high?), and FOR CHRIST'S sake, a
MICRO-TRANSACTION price tag!!! It was as difficult as CCP Zinfandel asking the CSM prior to pooping the 70 $ monocle.
Then some people could had ignored the NEx by not entering the tab. And those interested could get more gameplay and fuel CCP's income.
Then everything went wrong and still is wrong. "Gold ammo fear" has been more or less written off, but the NEx store still is a PITA, without enough choices, all of them are ludicrously overpriced, and of moot interest/quality.
it's yet another half-cooked feature that has been abandoned without iteration and looks deserted from every front, nobody CCP even TALKS about it.
Put that on top of how Crucible really hasn't added content for casuals, soloers and empire dwellers and how that's a trend several expansions old, and you get some customers wondering wether CCP is interested in having their money or don't...