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Gaia Ma'chello
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Posted - 2015.04.21 20:09:33 -
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Kotori wrote:Looks like there was some insider knowledge on this one!
Blog released at 17:00 today.
Huge Spike in purchases on the 20th April.
Bit of a mismatch there.
I hope there is to be an investigation as to who is abusing their powers?
Speculation is one thing, but a mass purchase the day before a dev blog announcing that availability will be stopped immediately....
That spike extended to the PLEX market. It went up about 50 million too. People needed AURUM to get their skin BPCs. |
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Posted - 2015.04.21 20:16:38 -
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Agent Unknown wrote:Elenahina wrote:Kotori wrote:Querns wrote:Kotori wrote:Looks like there was some insider knowledge on this one!
Blog released at 17:00 today.
Huge Spike in purchases on the 20th April.
Bit of a mismatch there.
I hope there is to be an investigation as to who is abusing their powers?
Speculation is one thing, but a mass purchase the day before a dev blog announcing that availability will be stopped immediately.... Um, the SKIN program has been talked about for months. Literal months. I do not dispute that one bit. But the sudden "Re-Interest" in purchasing all the skins. The day before an official announcement like this, is at the very least... *Slightly* Suspicious I went out and bought all the ones I didn't have last week. Am I also suspicious? Considering the SKIN system has been on Singularity for weeks now, I don't think it's insider trading ...much like how the Entosis Link materials are already known based on publicly-available information. I personally don't really care about the SKINs...my Quafe set will probably fetch decent ISK once the conversion is made.
Its the price difference that makes it suspicious. Until this blog hit, no one was supposed to know that the new SKINs were to cost more AURUM than the BPCs. So why suddenly buy a huge number of them? All those who bought BPCs in the last few days could potentially make a huge profit:
Buy PLEX
Turn to AURUM
Get skin BPC
Wait for it to turn into SKIN licenses
Resell at a huge markup, as the SKIN licenses are many times more expensive. |
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Posted - 2015.04.21 23:22:35 -
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Thoth Aventine wrote:Kotori wrote:Looks like there was some insider knowledge on this one!
Blog released at 17:00 today.
Huge Spike in purchases on the 20th April.
Bit of a mismatch there.
I hope there is to be an investigation as to who is abusing their powers?
Speculation is one thing, but a mass purchase the day before a dev blog announcing that availability will be stopped immediately.... The information about the new skin process and some initial hints about the way skins would be converted has been in a thread in the test forum and on the test server for three weeks. The info has been available for a while and there's nothing suspicious going on, the spike you see is simple market speculation. As with all speculation, everyone who dumped money into this had very real risk of being totally screwed should the final implementation have changed by the time of the dev blog.
If the speculation had started 3 weeks ago, I would agree with you. But there was a big spike that started about a day or two before the blog. That indicates something happened a day or two before the blog. There were no new threads, or blogs, or updates to Sisi, to account for it. So what's left? A leak. As Sherlock Holmes would say, whenever all other possibilities have been eliminated, whatever is left must be true. |
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Posted - 2015.04.22 13:49:55 -
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Many people, including me, don't like the temporary SKINs as loot drops. But, CCP, you do have a point about market saturation. How to fix? Have permanent SKINs drop as loot very, very rarely. There will always be demand for SKINs as new players join eve. You just need to insure the drop rate is low enough, and the market will never saturate. |
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