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Lena Lazair
Khanid Irregulars
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Posted - 2015.04.21 21:23:38 -
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Catherine Laartii wrote:KHANID ALL THE THINGS
AAALLLLL THE THIIIIINNGSSS
The number of ships I'll be able to fly just went up considerably :) |
Lena Lazair
Khanid Irregulars
Khanid's Legion
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Posted - 2015.04.21 22:21:06 -
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Teinyhr wrote:Yeah I'll have to chip in and ask what is so hard to understand about the "micro" part in microtransactions? A months sub is not a microtransaction. I'm not saying this is entirely your fault CCP, several other MMO developers seem to have trouble understanding this concept as well, like Blizzard's F2P's with frankly ridiculous prices on cosmetic items.
Now what is a microtransaction? Anything from zero to about 5 dollars/euros/someothercurrencies. Even a fiver is in the upper limit, 3,99 would be deceptively reasonable. What do I mean with "deceptively reasonable?" It's on the surface a tiny amount you don't think about too much, until you notice you've spent it ten times already.
Yes and no. This is definitely true for a system in which the items are immediately account-bound.
However, in EVE these licenses can be traded for ISK. That means you don't have to spend a penny to acquire them. As yet-another-wealth-transfer mechanism, I don't think it's unreasonable for a permanent character-bound skin to be on par with the cost of a PLEX in terms of in-game effort/time spent. Especially when there are plenty of cheap permanent skins that will settle in the 50-150m range for "poors" to buy in-game as well, assuming people are rational and peg these to the going PLEX/AUR/$/ISK rates.
Also, as per someone else comparing these to the cost of clothing... yeah I fully expected these to be more pricey. After all, they affect something everyone actually sees and uses, rather than just a tiny niche corner of the game few people care about. |
Lena Lazair
Khanid Irregulars
Khanid's Legion
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Posted - 2015.04.21 22:54:53 -
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P3ps1 Max wrote:Not in favor of players purchasing plex with in-game isk and converting it to AUR.
The skin licenses are tradeable items with their own market tab. Converting ISK to PLEX to AUR won't be necessary anyway. |
Lena Lazair
Khanid Irregulars
Khanid's Legion
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Posted - 2015.04.22 14:20:14 -
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Akrasjel Lanate wrote:When will SKINs work in way that for example i have a Kor-Azor skin an it can be applied to all Amarr T1 hulls beacause now(still) if you fly a ship diffrent than those with SKINs... you have nothing ?
The system already supports this, they've just chosen not to introduce any SKINs of this type during the change over. They've talked extensively about using this in the future though... |
Lena Lazair
Khanid Irregulars
Khanid's Legion
456
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Posted - 2015.04.22 14:24:55 -
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Aralyn Cormallen wrote:It does seem that the pricing system lacks scaling with ship size/cost.
We're talking permanent SKINs. Scaling by ship size is pointless. If you fly the hull regularly you will be able to use the SKIN forever. Before small ships had cheap variants because you would be expected to lose them much more often than with your Aeon or Rorqual. Now, ship loss is irrelevant to SKIN pricing.
The only relevant factors to SKIN pricing is whether it is permanent vs. temp and how rare does CCP want that SKIN to be vs other SKINs for the same hull.
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Lena Lazair
Khanid Irregulars
Khanid's Legion
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Posted - 2015.04.23 02:57:14 -
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Akrasjel Lanate wrote:Lena Lazair wrote:Akrasjel Lanate wrote:When will SKINs work in way that for example i have a Kor-Azor skin an it can be applied to all Amarr T1 hulls beacause now(still) if you fly a ship diffrent than those with SKINs... you have nothing ? The system already supports this, they've just chosen not to introduce any SKINs of this type during the change over. They've talked extensively about using this in the future though... Maby missed that... link ?
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5639172#post5639172 is one. I've seen comments about it elsewhere though for sure; maybe at fanfest or in the earlier dev discussions on SKINs, don't recall precisely. |
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