We are against microtransactions because they are a direct assault on Eve's basic gameplay.

I only have a problem with NeX because it was implemented terribly. I don't understand all these pay-to-win fears. Last I checked you can buy a boat load of isk for real money from CCP.

Anyway the real crux of the situation was...

NeX was implemented in a way that felt bolted on, and it didn't even fit with the game at all. I fly around in a dark dystopic future verse but wait there's also a designer store for... discerning pod pilots? wtf. And the AUR currency is at best obtuse and hard to understand or even make sense of.

The game would be better off just filtering these items through in-game channels that make sense. I think CCP saw dollar signs and then got owned, hard. I'm sure they're rethinking the entire NeX store at this point. Plus the store never had any good items either, but even if it did, I'd still feel like it was a junky, half-assed attempt at grabbing dollar billz from an alternate revenue stream, because thats what it is. It's purely a financial move, and has nothing in common with any actual gameplay or anything that enriches gameplay at all.

I am no market analyst but the I am quite sure that eve percentage wise is very balanced in terms of users. From the 12 yos that got tired of wow to mr retried I have nothing better to dos. Where in wow its usually leaning in one direction majority of the time.

Overall and eventually featuers like the nex are going to continue to gain new subscribers and in a perfect world would surpass the loss factor or the bitter vets that actually did call it quits for good.

Even tho they don't effect gameplay in the slightest.
I am with the people who were and still are against microtransactions that effect gameplay. You're just making **** up at this point.

I thought the NEX is just a stepping stone for supplying Arms for DUST. We supply the arms so they can play for free.

The last quoted average age for EVE players was 31.

Please tell me that you can't in all honesty believe that saying to someone "yes come and play EVE where you pay $30 for a digital skirt" is going to attract a multitude of new players. This may attract some people, but isn't going to keep them long term because the items are meaningless in the context of the game.

Now if that same item was gained through LP for becoming an Admiral in FW as one example then it gives someone even new to the game something to strive for and gives the item meaning in the game "Hey look that person is an Admiral" or "Oh I like the look of that, how do I get one as well", a goal to work towards. Even something like the monocle, if that was from a rare BPC drop, imagine what that would be worth then on the market and it's exclusivity in game ... industrialists would be drooling.

I want to see EVE and CCP around for a long long time, but I don't believe the NeX is the answer to that goal. By polishing current content and diversifying EVE's appeal through additional gameplay that stays in line with the core philosophy of the game are what will give EVE the longevity it needs.

That monocle came from gameplay. And to accomplish your goal PLEX would need to be removed from the game to boot.

Terrible idea and I'm super happy that CCP doesn't let the inmates run the asylum.

I don't think CCP will provide any numbers. just as you see devs in every thread posting and posting and carefully staying out of this one.

Their first mistake was introducing the AUR currency. Up till now I don't get why they ever needed that one
Their second one was the price setting for the whole thing.


If those crap items were actually obtainable through ISK more people would probably have gotten them unlike now where the AUR/ ISK conversion rate makes items stupidly expensive.


Poor implementation of a poor idea by a cocky company.

The kick in the nuts was more than deserved, wish it was harder though. Still too much cocky attitude in CCP

So CCP what about providing us with:

- some numbers about this whole AUR/ Nex crap
- providing a quarterly economic newsletter that seems to have missed a few quarters

HI!

Ill state it again, Aurum was a way to allow players to spend a half or a quater of a plex.

Letting it be tradeable however would be nice but it sorta already is just a lump sum of 3500 at a time.

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No - PLEX wouldn't need to be removed, it's price is earned by players to swap others players for game time or character swaps etc . CCP simply use PLEX as a method for players to trade real cash to each other. Your monocle can very easily stay in the game - and be built by players.

Look at this from a different vantage point. Think back to before Tyranis when pos structures were bought directly from npc's. Imagine that instead of adding PI and blueprints (and later corp owned customs offices), these structures were instead obtained directly from the NeX. Would we be better off today?

Now imagine a hypothetical future, where there's full WiS/Ambulation, manufacturing for various kinds of clothing. Rare clothing could be found in some missions or faction/officer ships, others might be obtained from LP. Maybe some missions would in part involve docking at an asteroid outpost. Establishments could be used, and decorated, via more industry gameplay, rare objects for said decorating might be found through the galaxy as well. Games and other activities would also be tied in with other gameplay.

While still imagining your in that hypothetical future EvE, think back and imagine how different the game would have been if instead of that, you just paid Aurum for opening and maintaining an establishment, or obtaining character / establishment customization's & clothes.

Can you understand where I am coming from now? Microtransactions *displace* gameplay. Even simple things like fuel blocks, there will be groups of people that dedicate themselves to providing those goods.

obvious stuff..
....me to be attainable from gameplay, PLEX is out, period.

I love when folks start expounding about business while on their break at Jack-In-The-Box....

Why not let CCP have income from those willing to spend on NeX as long as it stays vanity and actual game development isn't hindered?