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Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.02 16:29:24 -
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EVE has always been free to play if you aren't bad.
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Forum Toon
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2016.12.02 16:44:35 -
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it wasn't free. someone paid for that plex you use. |
Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.02 16:51:22 -
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Forum Toon wrote:it wasn't free. someone paid for that plex you use.
Free to me.
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Rutger Centemus
Burning Napalm Northern Coalition.
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Posted - 2016.12.02 17:20:23 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:Forum Toon wrote:it wasn't free. someone paid for that plex you use. Free to me. Do you perchance mine your own minerals? |
Kojee
Sex and Coke Party Negative Ten.
49
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Posted - 2016.12.02 17:25:44 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:Free to me.
So your time is worthless then. Cool.
Hey... by the way... wanna build me a pyramid? I hear your labor rates are super cheap. |
Zimmy Zeta
Lisa Needs Braces.
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Posted - 2016.12.02 17:27:22 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:EVE has always been free to play if you aren't bad.
Sexy Cakes wrote:Free to me.
Logic dictates that if both statements are true, you aren't t bad. Is that true?
I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it.
Yes, I do feel bad about it.
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Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.02 17:34:36 -
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Rutger Centemus wrote:Sexy Cakes wrote:Forum Toon wrote:it wasn't free. someone paid for that plex you use. Free to me. Do you perchance mine your own minerals?
How did I know this comment would be forthcoming.
So I'll explain my concept of 'free'.
My job pays me X amount of dollars per month.
My bills cost me Y amount of dollars per month.
The left over dollars per month are Z.
X - Y = Z
Nowhere in that equation does EVE factor in. Not once. The real world cost of me playing EVE represented monetarily is zero dollars.
As far as my time goes I remote desktop from work and AFK rat so touche.
Even when I didn't remote desktop I ran level 4's in highsec or explored in lowsec and enjoyed doing so while also making enough ISK to PLEX my accounts. So my enjoyment netted me enough ISK to pay for the game with in game currency.
Any more questions?
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Galaxy Duck
Galaxy Farm Carebear Repurposing
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Posted - 2016.12.02 18:56:39 -
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So if you don't like to grind then you're bad? |
Gadget Helmsdottir
Gadget's Workshop
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Posted - 2016.12.02 19:01:22 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote: EVE has always been free to play if you aren't bad.
As far as my time goes I remote desktop from work and AFK rat so touche.
I have a career that doesn't allow playing games in the workplace.
That apparently makes me bad ...bad what, BTW?
Nah, take mah money, CCP!
--Gadget Fry
Work smarter, not harder. --Scrooge McDuck, an eminent old-Earth economist
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Neuntausend
Rens Nursing Home
1150
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Posted - 2016.12.02 19:07:17 -
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Rutger Centemus wrote:Do you perchance mine your own minerals? Classic! |
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Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.02 19:20:50 -
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Gadget Helmsdottir wrote:Sexy Cakes wrote: EVE has always been free to play if you aren't bad.
As far as my time goes I remote desktop from work and AFK rat so touche.
I have a career that doesn't allow playing games in the workplace. That apparently makes me bad ...bad what, BTW? Nah, take mah money, CCP! --Gadget Fry
You fail to read the section after that about my enjoyment providing enough ISK to play for free?
Nah, just pick out single sentences and take them out of context.
Not today spaghetti.
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Galaxy Duck
Galaxy Farm Carebear Repurposing
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Posted - 2016.12.02 19:25:15 -
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Go home carebear, you're drunk. |
Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.02 19:31:25 -
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Galaxy Duck wrote:Go home carebear, you're drunk.
Drunk on really expensive whiskey from all the savings I have from not paying CCP money.
Not today spaghetti.
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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
2014
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Posted - 2016.12.02 19:36:05 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:Gadget Helmsdottir wrote:Sexy Cakes wrote: EVE has always been free to play if you aren't bad.
As far as my time goes I remote desktop from work and AFK rat so touche.
I have a career that doesn't allow playing games in the workplace. That apparently makes me bad ...bad what, BTW? Nah, take mah money, CCP! --Gadget Fry You fail to read the section after that about my enjoyment providing enough ISK to play for free? Nah, just pick out single sentences and take them out of context. The rest boiled down to "I like carebearing." Personally, if I cared to I could PLEX easily as well. But I don't because I can't be bothered. And really most of the RL people I know who sell PLEX in game are better than I am in the game by a wide margin. The effort and skill they put into what they do far outweighs my own, but they can't be bothered to PvE. They shoot people and often take losses when doing so.
The idea that being good at eve means in any way prioritizing earning PLEX misses the sandbox concept wholeheartedly. |
Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.02 19:44:24 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote:The rest boiled down to "I like carebearing." Personally, if I cared to I could PLEX easily as well. But I don't because I can't be bothered. Don't like feeling obligated to play for any specific period of time. And really most of the RL people I know who sell PLEX in game are better than I am in the game by a wide margin. The effort and skill they put into what they do far outweighs my own, but they can't be bothered to PvE. They shoot people and often take losses when doing so.
The idea that being good at eve means in any way prioritizing earning PLEX misses the sandbox concept wholeheartedly.
The point I'm making is that if you aren't bad you don't have to spend all day PvE'ing. There's a million ways to make a billion a month with absolute minimal effort. Just because I provide trash talkers with my methods of making ISK doesn't mean that's all I'm referring to, I feel like I need a box of crayons to explain things to you people so here goes...
IF YOU CAN'T MANAGE TO MAKE ENOUGH ISK IN ONE MONTH TO PURCHASE A PLEX THEN YOU ARE BAD AT EVE.
Not today spaghetti.
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Estuary Algaert
Petulant Luddite GmbH
20
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Posted - 2016.12.02 19:46:41 -
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OP, there is a difference between no net cost and free. You are the former, Alpha accounts are the latter. Continue enjoying your delusions. |
Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.02 19:50:02 -
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Estuary Algaert wrote:OP, there is a difference between no net cost and free. You are the former, Alpha accounts are the latter. Continue enjoying your delusions.
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=definition+of+free
adverb 1. without cost or payment. "ladies were admitted free" synonyms:without charge, free of charge, for nothing;
Not today spaghetti.
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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
2014
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Posted - 2016.12.02 19:50:16 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:The point I'm making is that if you aren't bad you don't have to spend all day PvE'ing. There's a million ways to make a billion a month with absolute minimal effort. Just because I provide trash talkers with my methods of making ISK doesn't mean that's all I'm referring to, I feel like I need a box of crayons to explain things to you people so here goes...
IF YOU CAN'T MANAGE TO MAKE ENOUGH ISK IN ONE MONTH TO PURCHASE A PLEX THEN YOU ARE BAD AT EVE. And I just pointed out that some don't PvE AT ALL. That's not their thing. They engage purely in loss driving activities and CBA to even consider paying with PLEX. Others CBA for other reasons.
That doesn't make them bad at Eve. It just means your standard is terrible.
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Neuntausend
Rens Nursing Home
1150
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Posted - 2016.12.02 19:51:35 -
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Even if you got a billion just for logging in once a month you wouldn't play for free if you used that billion to buy a PLEX. You could have used that billion to buy something else. Saying a PLEX bought from the spoils of one month of AFK ratting is "free" is the same as saying that Carriers are free. If Carriers are free, why doesn't everybody have some, just for ***** and giggles?
If you give something (no matter what or how you got it) to get something, that something is not free. You could argue that Eve is not very expensive. That would be very subjective but hard to refute. But when you say it's free, you are mistaken. |
u3pog
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
809
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Posted - 2016.12.02 19:53:02 -
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If you earn your ISK in your free time and PLEX your account with it, then EVE is free for you $$$ wise I think OP meant free real money wise, not in-game.
I doubt all of you work and make money 24 hours a day to make that silly comparison with the minerals. Yes, it's not free time wise, but following that logic, your sleep isn't for free also.
Now, if you are real-life tycoon, you follow the maxim "time is money", work and earn money non-stop, and play EVE at the same time...Well, that's your problem. |
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Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.02 19:53:43 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote:Sexy Cakes wrote:The point I'm making is that if you aren't bad you don't have to spend all day PvE'ing. There's a million ways to make a billion a month with absolute minimal effort. Just because I provide trash talkers with my methods of making ISK doesn't mean that's all I'm referring to, I feel like I need a box of crayons to explain things to you people so here goes...
IF YOU CAN'T MANAGE TO MAKE ENOUGH ISK IN ONE MONTH TO PURCHASE A PLEX THEN YOU ARE BAD AT EVE. And I just pointed out that some don't PvE AT ALL. That's not their thing. They engage purely in loss driving activities and CBA to even consider paying with PLEX. Others CBA for other reasons. That doesn't make them bad at Eve. It just means your standard is terrible.
My standard is not paying people for doing a ****** job and CCP does a ****** job on this game. I still like playing it but I don't pay them money. So if you do pay them money then you are paying for them to do a ****** job and therefore and proliferating the terribleness and hence bad at EVE.
Not today spaghetti.
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Neuntausend
Rens Nursing Home
1150
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Posted - 2016.12.02 19:57:40 -
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u3pog wrote:If you earn your ISK in your free time and PLEX your account with it, then EVE is free for you $$$ wise I think OP meant free real money wise, not in-game. I doubt all of you work and make money 24 hours a day to make that silly comparison with the minerals. Yes, it's not free time wise, but following that logic, your sleep isn't for free also. Now, if you are real-life tycoon, you follow the maxim "time is money", work and earn money non-stop, and play EVE at the same time...Well, that's your problem. It's not about the investment of time, really. If you *have* minerals - not even talking about how you got them - you could give them away, or you could sell them for ISK. If you opt to just give them away, that basically just cost you whatever those minerals were worth on the market. Same with PLEX. If you *have* a PLEX, no matter why, and you opt to use it to upgrade to Omega, that just cost you a PLEX.
Or let's put it this way: Imagine you find a hundred dollar bill just lying on the ground. That's free, right? At least as close as it gets to being free - you still have to pick it up, but let's just disregard that and say it's absolutely free. Now you take those 100 free dollars, and buy a months worth of canned dog food for it. Is that dog food free? No, of course not, you just spent a hundred dollars on it, that you could have spent otherwise. |
Estuary Algaert
Petulant Luddite GmbH
20
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Posted - 2016.12.02 19:58:27 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:Estuary Algaert wrote:OP, there is a difference between no net cost and free. You are the former, Alpha accounts are the latter. Continue enjoying your delusions. https://lmgtfy.com/?q=definition+of+free adverb 1. without cost or payment. "ladies were admitted free" synonyms:without charge, free of charge, for nothing;
Thank you, I totally did not realize that ISK and PLEX are nothing. Let me just go dump all that since I don't need it to fund my subscription anymore. Anyone in the market for a pile of PLEX? Might even let them go cheap since I got them all about 6 years ago, seeing that I don't need them anymore.
*Runs off feeling liberated from the shackles of thinking I was still paying for my account(s)* |
u3pog
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:03:40 -
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Neuntausend wrote:It's not about the investment of time, really. If you *have* minerals - not even talking about how you got them - you could give them away, or you could sell them for ISK. If you opt to just give them away, that basically just cost you whatever those minerals were worth on the market. Same with PLEX. If you *have* a PLEX, no matter why, and you opt to use it to upgrade to Omega, that just cost you a PLEX.
Yes, so it costed you an in-game item (somebody paid for it, wasn't you though), not real money. I think the title of the thread is misleading here, EVE is not for free, it's just free of charge. |
Gadget Helmsdottir
Gadget's Workshop
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:04:01 -
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**Raises hand**
Serious question here. What's CBA?
I googled it and found: Community Bankers Association of Georgia Continental Basketball Association Christian Booksellers Assosiation
And more associations... Somehow I think this might be millennial-interweb-speak.
Please enlightened the uninformed.
Thanks, Gadget - feeling old
Work smarter, not harder. --Scrooge McDuck, an eminent old-Earth economist
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Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:06:51 -
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Neuntausend wrote:Even if you got a billion just for logging in once a month you wouldn't play for free if you used that billion to buy a PLEX. You could have used that billion to buy something else. Saying a PLEX bought from the spoils of one month of AFK ratting is "free" is the same as saying that Carriers are free. If Carriers are free, why doesn't everybody have some, just for ***** and giggles?
If you give something (no matter what or how you got it) to get something, that something is not free. You could argue that Eve is not very expensive. That would be very subjective but hard to refute. But when you say it's free, you are mistaken.
People in this game convolute opportunity cost to justify spending their RL money on pixels worse than any other game I've played. At least when someone buys skins in real free to play games they don't have to try to lie to themselves about it and just call it a waste of money on a hobby. In EVE you tryhards think you are going fool anyone else as bad as you fool yourself into believing dropping 200 bucks on PLEX is actually a proactive thing in your life so you don't spend 3 months grinding out a super. Ya right...
Not today spaghetti.
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Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:08:13 -
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Gadget Helmsdottir wrote:**Raises hand**
Serious question here. What's CBA?
I googled it and found: Community Bankers Association of Georgia Continental Basketball Association Christian Booksellers Assosiation
And more associations... Somehow I think this might be millennial-interweb-speak.
Please enlightened the uninformed.
Thanks, Gadget - feeling old
can't be asked
Not today spaghetti.
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Estuary Algaert
Petulant Luddite GmbH
21
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:09:23 -
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Gadget Helmsdottir wrote:**Raises hand**
Serious question here. What's CBA?
I googled it and found: Community Bankers Association of Georgia Continental Basketball Association Christian Booksellers Assosiation
And more associations... Somehow I think this might be millennial-interweb-speak.
Please enlightened the uninformed.
Thanks, Gadget - feeling old
I'm going with Cocoa Butter Alternatives...
Cost Benefit Analysis |
Gadget Helmsdottir
Gadget's Workshop
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:10:34 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:Neuntausend wrote:Even if you got a billion just for logging in once a month you wouldn't play for free if you used that billion to buy a PLEX. You could have used that billion to buy something else. Saying a PLEX bought from the spoils of one month of AFK ratting is "free" is the same as saying that Carriers are free. If Carriers are free, why doesn't everybody have some, just for ***** and giggles?
If you give something (no matter what or how you got it) to get something, that something is not free. You could argue that Eve is not very expensive. That would be very subjective but hard to refute. But when you say it's free, you are mistaken. People in this game convolute opportunity cost to justify spending their RL money pixels worse than any other game I've played. At least when someone buys skins in real free to play games they don't have to try to lie to themselves about it and just call it a waste of money on a hobby. In EVE you tryhards think you are going fool anyone else as bad as you fool yourself into believing dropping 200 bucks on PLEX is actually a proactive thing in your life so you don't spend 3 months grinding out a super. Ya right...
??
This apparently has moved to a rant.
EvE is worth exactly how much I pay for it in time, cash, and will.
--Gadget
BTW, Thanks for the answers, all. Lexicon improved to level 4.
Work smarter, not harder. --Scrooge McDuck, an eminent old-Earth economist
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Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:12:29 -
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Gadget Helmsdottir wrote: ??
This apparently has moved to a rant.
EvE is worth exactly how much I pay for it in time, cash, and will.
--Gadget
Go to the grocery store and ask them if you can give your time or will to put food on the table.
Not today spaghetti.
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Cien Banchiere
Extrinsic Arcadia Distribution
131
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:15:26 -
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I had a nice reply, but I ended up saying "nah" because I feel like this is actually a joke topic. |
Gadget Helmsdottir
Gadget's Workshop
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:16:48 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:Gadget Helmsdottir wrote: ??
This apparently has moved to a rant.
EvE is worth exactly how much I pay for it in time, cash, and will.
--Gadget
Go to the grocery store and ask them if you can give your time or will to put food on the table.
GO is the key word there.
To get groceries, I need to spend Time (getting there), Cash (someone's... almost always mine), and Will (meh, I'll go later).
--Gadget
Work smarter, not harder. --Scrooge McDuck, an eminent old-Earth economist
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Neuntausend
Rens Nursing Home
1150
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:18:27 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:Go to the grocery store and ask them if you can give your time or will to put food on the table. Go to the grocery store and ask them if you can hold them a lecture about quantum mechanics to put food on your table. Go to the grocery store in Boston and ask them if you can give them a bunch of north korean Won to put food on your table. Just because with whatever you may have you can't buy a specific item at a specific place with it doesn't mean it's not worth anything. And if you give something that has any worth attached to it to get something else, it's not free. This concept should really not be hard to grasp. |
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
2014
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:20:36 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:My standard is not paying people for doing a ****** job and CCP does a ****** job on this game. I still like playing it but I don't pay them money. So if you do pay them money then you are paying for them to do a ****** job and therefore and proliferating the terribleness and hence bad at EVE. People have expressed that view before, and it makes no more sense now than it ever has to try punishing CCP by working to ensure they get paid more for each month than they would if you were happy with the game.
If I had a game full of people like you and a system like PLEX you can bet I'd break things regularly to keep you incentivizing the highest cost sub method I have to offer.
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Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:22:01 -
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Neuntausend wrote: Go to the grocery and ask them if you can hold them a lecture about quantum mechanics to put food on your table. Go to the grocery store in Boston and ask them if you can give them a bunch of north korean Won to put food on your table. Just because with whatever you may have you can't buy a specific item at a specific place with it doesn't mean it's not worth anything. And if you give something that has any worth attached to it to get something else, it's not free. This concept should really not be hard to grasp.
The concept is not hard to grasp but your attachment of the concept to an actual point in this argument is.
Not today spaghetti.
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Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:23:03 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote:If I had a game full of people like you and a system like PLEX you can bet I'd break things regularly to keep you incentivizing the highest cost sub method I have to offer. So long as the PLEX buyers from me are happy and you aren't quitting your gripes have no reason to matter to me.
Maybe we've finally stumbled on the reason CCP screws up so much?!?
Not today spaghetti.
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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
2014
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:24:47 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:If I had a game full of people like you and a system like PLEX you can bet I'd break things regularly to keep you incentivizing the highest cost sub method I have to offer. So long as the PLEX buyers from me are happy and you aren't quitting your gripes have no reason to matter to me. Maybe we've finally stumbled on the reason CCP screws up so much?!? Maybe, but that means you're still advocating being part of the issue as "being good at eve." |
Galaxy Duck
Galaxy Farm Carebear Repurposing
233
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:26:38 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:Sexy Cakes wrote:The point I'm making is that if you aren't bad you don't have to spend all day PvE'ing. There's a million ways to make a billion a month with absolute minimal effort. Just because I provide trash talkers with my methods of making ISK doesn't mean that's all I'm referring to, I feel like I need a box of crayons to explain things to you people so here goes...
IF YOU CAN'T MANAGE TO MAKE ENOUGH ISK IN ONE MONTH TO PURCHASE A PLEX THEN YOU ARE BAD AT EVE. And I just pointed out that some don't PvE AT ALL. That's not their thing. They engage purely in loss driving activities and CBA to even consider paying with PLEX. Others CBA for other reasons. That doesn't make them bad at Eve. It just means your standard is terrible. My standard is not paying people for doing a ****** job and CCP does a ****** job on this game. I still like playing it but I don't pay them money. So if you do pay them money then you are paying for them to do a ****** job and therefore and proliferating the terribleness and hence bad at EVE.
Ahh, he doesn't like CCP and has an axe to grind... Now I get it.
OP, you do realize that CCP makes even more money off you when you PLEX your account than when you subscribe, right? |
Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:30:03 -
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Galaxy Duck wrote: Ahh, he doesn't like CCP and has an axe to grind... Now I get it.
OP, you do realize that CCP makes even more money off you when you PLEX your account than when you subscribe, right?
It's not that I don't like CCP. It's that I don't feel they do a good enough job on the product they are selling to warrant my money. I play this game for no monetary cost. Time I have spare and that's why I play video games in the first place, to waste time.
Not today spaghetti.
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Cien Banchiere
Extrinsic Arcadia Distribution
131
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:31:36 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:Galaxy Duck wrote: Ahh, he doesn't like CCP and has an axe to grind... Now I get it.
OP, you do realize that CCP makes even more money off you when you PLEX your account than when you subscribe, right?
It's not that I don't like CCP. It's that I don't feel they do a good enough job on the product they are selling to warrant my money. I play this game for no monetary cost. Time I have spare and that's why I play video games in the first place, to waste time.
Still an opportunity cost. And someone else is paying $20 for.your time so you're not punishing them in any shape or form. They are still making money, and more than nornal. |
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Neuntausend
Rens Nursing Home
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:31:55 -
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Also, you think you don't pay CCP, because they aren't doing a good job. Ok, that would be fair enough if it was true. Yet, you do actually pay someone else (not in dollars, but still) to pay CCP for you. So, CCP still make money off of you. Even more, because PLEX are more expensive than a sub. So, in practice, you take a detour, but you still pay CCP while persuading yourself and others into believing that you don't.
In the end, that probably works well for you, because apparently, 1.2 billion ISK don't have a value attached for you personally. And that's okay, but that doesn't mean they aren't worth anything. Hey, if you hated the game and CCP, you could probably sell that ISK on ebay for 5 bucks or so. It would get you banned, but hey, at least you didn't technically pay a bunch of pixels worth 5 bucks to play a game you don't like anyway. |
Galaxy Duck
Galaxy Farm Carebear Repurposing
233
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:41:22 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:Galaxy Duck wrote: Ahh, he doesn't like CCP and has an axe to grind... Now I get it.
OP, you do realize that CCP makes even more money off you when you PLEX your account than when you subscribe, right?
It's not that I don't like CCP. It's that I don't feel they do a good enough job on the product they are selling to warrant my money. I play this game for no monetary cost. Time I have spare and that's why I play video games in the first place, to waste time.
I'll ask again:
OP, you do realize that CCP makes even more money off you when you PLEX your account than when you subscribe, right? |
Demonspawn 666
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
9
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:50:37 -
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Mehhhhh!
Just wasted 10 minutes of my life reading this.
That 10 minutes is time wasted that I shall never see again, my life is a finite resource, and all finite resources have value.
I could have been making a cup of tea and having some hobnobs instead of reading this!
10 minutes with tea & Hobnobs = Priceless! |
u3pog
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
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Posted - 2016.12.02 20:54:21 -
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Demonspawn 666 wrote:Mehhhhh!
Just wasted 10 minutes of my life reading this.
That 10 minutes is time wasted that I shall never see again, my life is a finite resource, and all finite resources have value.
I could have been making a cup of tea and having some hobnobs instead of reading this!
10 minutes with tea & Hobnobs = Priceless!
But I thought that's what GD is for Wasting some time, having an argument, even if I am not right, and I am wrong 90% of the time, but I am having fun nevertheless. Weird...maybe I have too much FREE time |
Sexy Cakes
Have A Seat
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Posted - 2016.12.02 22:12:23 -
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Galaxy Duck wrote:[ I'll ask again:
OP, you do realize that CCP makes even more money off you when you PLEX your account than when you subscribe, right?
Not from my bank account they don't. I understand completely what you are saying, I don't do it from a wanting to punish them standpoint I do it from a not wanting to pay for a shoddy product. You do understand that concept don't you? Not wanting to pay for something you don't feel is up to standards?
Not today spaghetti.
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Sexy Cakes
Have A Seat
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Posted - 2016.12.02 22:13:10 -
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Demonspawn 666 wrote:Mehhhhh!
Just wasted 10 minutes of my life reading this.
That 10 minutes is time wasted that I shall never see again, my life is a finite resource, and all finite resources have value.
I could have been making a cup of tea and having some hobnobs instead of reading this!
10 minutes with tea & Hobnobs = Priceless!
I'm not the one who started in with the opportunity cost bullshit.
Not today spaghetti.
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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
2014
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Posted - 2016.12.02 22:27:52 -
[47] - Quote
Sexy Cakes wrote:Galaxy Duck wrote:[ I'll ask again:
OP, you do realize that CCP makes even more money off you when you PLEX your account than when you subscribe, right? Not from my bank account they don't. I understand completely what you are saying, I don't do it from a wanting to punish them standpoint I do it from a not wanting to pay for a shoddy product. You do understand that concept don't you? Not wanting to pay for something you don't feel is up to standards? There was something else I wanted to ask from a slightly different angle: Do I understand correctly that the game is worth your free time that I assume you use for entertainment, but at the same time not worth paying for it yourself?
Does it just occupy the time that you for some reason can't engage in something you would pay for? |
Cien Banchiere
Extrinsic Arcadia Distribution
131
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Posted - 2016.12.02 22:37:29 -
[48] - Quote
Sexy Cakes wrote:Galaxy Duck wrote:[ I'll ask again:
OP, you do realize that CCP makes even more money off you when you PLEX your account than when you subscribe, right? Not from my bank account they don't. I understand completely what you are saying, I don't do it from a wanting to punish them standpoint I do it from a not wanting to pay for a shoddy product. You do understand that concept don't you? Not wanting to pay for something you don't feel is up to standards?
Which, if you can't tell from how you type, makes it appear as you are punishing and/or out smarting CCP. And he's not wrong. You are a person who drives the PLEX market. Meaning, that if you help contribute more money than you think by being active in the economy. You may not spend the $20 yourself, but someone has. That comes from the opportunity costs you have given playing the game enough to buy that item. You are still ensuring that CCP gets the money |
Mark Marconi
Ministry of War Amarr Empire
148
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Posted - 2016.12.02 22:41:21 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:Neuntausend wrote:Even if you got a billion just for logging in once a month you wouldn't play for free if you used that billion to buy a PLEX. You could have used that billion to buy something else. Saying a PLEX bought from the spoils of one month of AFK ratting is "free" is the same as saying that Carriers are free. If Carriers are free, why doesn't everybody have some, just for ***** and giggles?
If you give something (no matter what or how you got it) to get something, that something is not free. You could argue that Eve is not very expensive. That would be very subjective but hard to refute. But when you say it's free, you are mistaken. People in this game convolute opportunity cost to justify spending their RL money on pixels worse than any other game I've played. At least when someone buys skins in real free to play games they don't have to try to lie to themselves about it and just call it a waste of money on a hobby. In EVE you tryhards think you are going fool anyone else as bad as you fool yourself into believing dropping 200 bucks on PLEX is actually a proactive thing in your life so you don't spend 3 months grinding out a super. Ya right... Actually the opportunity cost of PLEX grinding is quite high.
In the time you spend grinding a PLEX, you could be working a second job or studying.
Now the time you sent grinding over a few years is enough study time to substantially improve your education and your pay packet.
Now with Alpha clones you do not even have to stop playing to remain revenue neutral at the start and it gets to the point where it is cheaper from an opportunity cost perspective to drop that $200 (very quickly at $200 per 3 months) because your time is more valuable than that. |
Loutro Fift
The Killer Cockatoos Initiative Mercenaries
31
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Posted - 2016.12.02 22:42:15 -
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Do you know how much time and money I have saved by not reading all of this thread?
I played EVE instead... |
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Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.02 22:53:13 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote: There was something else I wanted to ask from a slightly different angle: Do I understand correctly that the game is worth your free time that I assume you use for entertainment, but at the same time not worth paying for it yourself?
Does it just occupy the time that you for some reason can't engage in something you would pay for?
The monetary value of something doesn't dictate its entertainment factor.
Not today spaghetti.
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Loutro Fift
The Killer Cockatoos Initiative Mercenaries
31
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Posted - 2016.12.02 22:59:16 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote: There was something else I wanted to ask from a slightly different angle: Do I understand correctly that the game is worth your free time that I assume you use for entertainment, but at the same time not worth paying for it yourself?
Does it just occupy the time that you for some reason can't engage in something you would pay for?
The monetary value of something doesn't dictate its entertainment factor.
The monetary value of something dictates its EMOTIONAL entertainment factor. When sailing a million dollar yacht you're expectations of entertainment are far greater than when sailing a $50,000 yacht. Because your financial and emotional investment are far greater.
It's the emotional EXPECTATION that more spent will result in more enjoyment. |
Sexy Cakes
Have A Seat
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Posted - 2016.12.02 23:02:41 -
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Cien Banchiere wrote:Sexy Cakes wrote:Galaxy Duck wrote:[ I'll ask again:
OP, you do realize that CCP makes even more money off you when you PLEX your account than when you subscribe, right? Not from my bank account they don't. I understand completely what you are saying, I don't do it from a wanting to punish them standpoint I do it from a not wanting to pay for a shoddy product. You do understand that concept don't you? Not wanting to pay for something you don't feel is up to standards? Which, if you can't tell from how you type, makes it appear as you are punishing and/or out smarting CCP. And he's not wrong. You are a person who drives the PLEX market. Meaning, that if you help contribute more money than you think by being active in the economy. You may not spend the $20 yourself, but someone has. That comes from the opportunity costs you have given playing the game enough to buy that item. You are still ensuring that CCP gets the money
I'll say again, throw around the opportunity cost concept all you want but it's bullshit. I've explained how I make ISK and talked about the levels of crap the players in this game justify with the words opportunity cost. Not going to repeat myself anymore.
Last time I'll try to explain this concept to you forum warriors like myself... It's the same thing as a waiter/waitress coming to your table with a bad attitude and giving you bad service. Do you give them the standard 20% tip even though they couldn't give a rat's a$$ whether or not your food was warm or you had something to drink?
Not today spaghetti.
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Remiel Pollard
Shock Treatment Ministries
8198
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Posted - 2016.12.02 23:15:29 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:Estuary Algaert wrote:OP, there is a difference between no net cost and free. You are the former, Alpha accounts are the latter. Continue enjoying your delusions. https://lmgtfy.com/?q=definition+of+free adverb 1. without cost or payment. "ladies were admitted free" synonyms:without charge, free of charge, for nothing;
I stopped listening to dictionary definitions when they changed the meaning of 'literally' to mean 'figuratively'.
Instead, I'm going to take your elitism for what it is, and as far as I'm concerned, it's just as much an attitude problem as the entitlement that drives people to demand more free stuff. I can run a 6/10 a month and cover my plex if I want to, in less than an hour's grind, but instead of telling people they're bad because they can't, I'm going to go and show them how. Your "look at how amazing I am and how bad you are in comparison" attitude isn't just narcissism, it's also virtue signalling. But nobody really gives one seventeenth of a ****, sorry to say.
Even if we go by your definition, you're assuming the only currency is the currency itself. As you so delightfully showed us, though, that currency can be exchanged for time when you work, hence why you get paid X amount of money. The same applies for the game. Instead of currency, you exchange game time for more game time. If you know how, you can put in much less game time than you get out of it, but you are still putting in time. The cost is your time. Therefore, not free. Not even by the definition you provided.
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Jam those ones first, and kill them last.GÇ¥
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Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.02 23:26:05 -
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Remiel Pollard wrote:
I stopped listening to dictionary definitions when they changed the meaning of 'literally' to mean 'figuratively'.
Instead, I'm going to take your elitism for what it is, and as far as I'm concerned, it's just as much an attitude problem as the entitlement that drives people to demand more free stuff. I can run a 6/10 a month and cover my plex if I want to, in less than an hour's grind, but instead of telling people they're bad because they can't, I'm going to go and show them how. Your "look at how amazing I am and how bad you are in comparison" attitude isn't just narcissism, it's also virtue signalling. But nobody really gives one seventeenth of a ****, sorry to say.
Even if we go by your definition, you're assuming the only currency is the currency itself. As you so delightfully showed us, though, that currency can be exchanged for time when you work, hence why you get paid X amount of money. The same applies for the game. Instead of currency, you exchange game time for more game time. If you know how, you can put in much less game time than you get out of it, but you are still putting in time. The cost is your time. Therefore, not free. Not even by the definition you provided.
I made this thread for juxtaposition of all the 'Free EVE is lame' posts. Didn't expect someone to take it so seriously to claim I was a narcissist, even though I probably am. Quality post though thanks for the words.
P.S. 'Eve has always been free' has much more curb appeal than 'You have always been able to play Eve for no monetary expenditure although there is an opportunity cost for doing so', nerd.
Not today spaghetti.
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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
2014
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Posted - 2016.12.02 23:51:17 -
[56] - Quote
Sexy Cakes wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote: There was something else I wanted to ask from a slightly different angle: Do I understand correctly that the game is worth your free time that I assume you use for entertainment, but at the same time not worth paying for it yourself?
Does it just occupy the time that you for some reason can't engage in something you would pay for?
The monetary value of something doesn't dictate its entertainment factor. Never said it did, rather I'm asking the inverse: Does your enjoyment of something not contribute to the idea that it has a monetary value? |
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
2014
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Posted - 2016.12.02 23:54:16 -
[57] - Quote
Remiel Pollard wrote:Sexy Cakes wrote:Estuary Algaert wrote:OP, there is a difference between no net cost and free. You are the former, Alpha accounts are the latter. Continue enjoying your delusions. https://lmgtfy.com/?q=definition+of+free adverb 1. without cost or payment. "ladies were admitted free" synonyms:without charge, free of charge, for nothing; I stopped listening to dictionary definitions when they changed the meaning of 'literally' to mean 'figuratively'. You don't really need to omit the definition in this case. Without cost is not the same as a cost paid by someone else. Nothing in that definition implies only a singular point of reference (oneself) instead of an actual representation of objective fact.
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Sexy Cakes
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Posted - 2016.12.03 00:04:53 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote:Never said it did, rather I'm asking the inverse: Does your enjoyment of something not contribute to the idea that it has a monetary value?
I suppose it does but in that sense why pay for it if you don't have to?
Not today spaghetti.
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Cien Banchiere
Extrinsic Arcadia Distribution
131
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Posted - 2016.12.03 00:04:56 -
[59] - Quote
Sexy Cakes wrote:Cien Banchiere wrote:Sexy Cakes wrote:Galaxy Duck wrote:[ I'll ask again:
OP, you do realize that CCP makes even more money off you when you PLEX your account than when you subscribe, right? Not from my bank account they don't. I understand completely what you are saying, I don't do it from a wanting to punish them standpoint I do it from a not wanting to pay for a shoddy product. You do understand that concept don't you? Not wanting to pay for something you don't feel is up to standards? Which, if you can't tell from how you type, makes it appear as you are punishing and/or out smarting CCP. And he's not wrong. You are a person who drives the PLEX market. Meaning, that if you help contribute more money than you think by being active in the economy. You may not spend the $20 yourself, but someone has. That comes from the opportunity costs you have given playing the game enough to buy that item. You are still ensuring that CCP gets the money I'll say again, throw around the opportunity cost concept all you want but it's bullshit. I've explained how I make ISK and talked about the levels of crap the players in this game justify with the words opportunity cost. Not going to repeat myself anymore. Last time I'll try to explain this concept to you forum warriors like myself... It's the same thing as a waiter/waitress coming to your table with a bad attitude and giving you bad service. Do you give them the standard 20% tip even though they couldn't give a rat's a$$ whether or not your food was warm or you had something to drink?
They still got paid. It's also not mutually exclusive. You don't play for free. There is a time investment. Time, no matter what you think, time is in fact a commodity. You are giving your time to a game to play on someone else's dime. CCP may not have made $35, but they made a $20 off of someone, and you gave your time no matter how you want to look at it. By giving that time away you created, hold on for it, an opportunity for someone to sell you something. You gonna tell me minerals are free if you mine them next? |
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
2014
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Posted - 2016.12.03 00:12:32 -
[60] - Quote
Sexy Cakes wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:Never said it did, rather I'm asking the inverse: Does your enjoyment of something not contribute to the idea that it has a monetary value? I suppose it does but in that sense why pay for it if you don't have to? If you actually enjoy the activities you do to avoid that payment there is no reason. That said, that question doesn't really have anything to do with the claim you made that the game isn't worth paying for. It only addresses why some would chose not to while still conceding it has some value on a personal level.
I could pay more for some products than I do and still feel satisfied from a value proposition, but I most often don't when it's not required. For those that PLEX easily and could sub with similar ease the logic is similar. |
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TigerXtrm
KarmaFleet Goonswarm Federation
1810
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Posted - 2016.12.03 00:29:07 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote:EVE has always been free to play if you aren't bad.
No it wasn't because PLEX wasn't introduced until like, what, 2008?
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Chopper Rollins
Brutor Tribe Minmatar Republic
1677
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Posted - 2016.12.03 00:45:32 -
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OP does PVE to make ISK to buy PLEX, LOL. Unless you make 1.8 billion in an hour you're doing PVE for less than wage. I wish my time was completely worthless.
A century has 36,500 or so days in it, nobody is time rich. Eagerly awaiting OP's snappy self-serving troll of a come-back.
Goggles. Making me look good. Making you look good.
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Glascia
Kzinti Hegemony
0
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Posted - 2016.12.03 01:18:43 -
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Sexy Cakes wrote: My standard is not paying people for doing a ****** job and CCP does a ****** job on this game. I still like playing it but I don't pay them money. So if you do pay them money then you are paying for them to do a ****** job and therefore and proliferating the terribleness and hence bad at EVE.
Do you withhold paying your city, state, local, and federal taxes?
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Toobo
Project Fruit House Solyaris Chtonium
324
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Posted - 2016.12.03 06:41:53 -
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I enjoy my work. I get paid money for working. But I'm doing what I enjoy greatly. And the money I get paid from work is paying for all my bills. I'm living RL for free! XD
"When faced with my demons, I clothe them and feed them,
and I smile, yes I smile as they are taking me over" - Strange Glue
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Brokk Witgenstein
Extreme Agony Mordus Angels
891
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Posted - 2016.12.03 06:47:17 -
[65] - Quote
Agreed. EvE is free to play- my wife is an incursion runner. \o/ |
Wanda Fayne
320
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Posted - 2016.12.03 10:08:36 -
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I freely admit that I enjoy being bad
your comments just confirms this whole idea is totally pathetic
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Gully Alex Foyle
Black Fox Marauders
4490
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Posted - 2016.12.03 10:09:35 -
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OP doesn't realize he/she is working for free for CCP and the EVE community!
OP does some boring PVE activity --> end result is ISK (bounties) and/or resources (e.g. modules, minerals, whatever) are produced for all the EVE community to enjoy
OP buys PLEX --> end result is that someone (PLEX seller) gets ISK that he/she can't be bothered to generate (because too boring/too much effort, whatever)
CCP gets money from selling the PLEX in the first place --> they can continue being paid for making a 'bad game' (OP's words, I love EVE personally)
The funniest part is that OP doesn't realize this, but instead is convinced he/she is a genius carebear that got everyone fooled with his/her elite crabbing skills.
Thanks OP, you made my day!
Make space glamorous!
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Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
13253
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Posted - 2016.12.03 12:22:32 -
[68] - Quote
Sexy Cakes wrote:
can't be asked
WRONG AGAIN
It actually means "Can't be arsed/assed". If you're wrong about that, what are the odds that you're mistaken (quite seriously) in this thread?
Perfection is a dish best served like wasabi .
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Gadget Helmsdottir
Gadget's Workshop
500
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Posted - 2016.12.03 15:16:18 -
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Bumblefck wrote:Sexy Cakes wrote:
can't be asked
WRONG AGAIN It actually means "Can't be arsed/assed". If you're wrong about that, what are the odds that you're mistaken (quite seriously) in this thread?
/me pencils in correction to mental lexicon.
--Gadget
Work smarter, not harder. --Scrooge McDuck, an eminent old-Earth economist
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Linus Gorp
Ministry of Propaganda and Morale Black Marker
610
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Posted - 2016.12.03 21:06:25 -
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TigerXtrm wrote:Sexy Cakes wrote:EVE has always been free to play if you aren't bad. No it wasn't because PLEX wasn't introduced until like, what, 2008? 2007. We were able to trade GTCs for ISK right from the start in 2003, though. PLEX only made it more formal and easier, it didn't introduce anything completely new.
And also guys, good job feeding an illiterate troll.
When you don't know the difference between there, their, and they're, you come across as being so uneducated that your viewpoint can be safely dismissed. The literate is unlikely to learn much from the illiterate.
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