J'Mkarr Soban
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.05.05 00:05:00 -
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 Originally by: RightYouAre Ken
Is English your 8th language or something, kieron, because seriously every post you make on this subject just confuses it more. Please tell us which of the following statements about the new system are false, if any:
1) Player A can buy timecards from CCP for Real Money.
2) Player B can buy timecards from Player A for ISK, (using CCP as a broker for the transaction).
3) All timecard affiliate programs will be shut down - the only valid timecard transactions will be handled directly through CCP.
4) This new system is intended to end timecard scams and put more money into CCP's wallet, (because they wouldn't be selling to affiliates at a discounted rate).
Woah, what?
You can buy game time (not the lack of the word card there) for ISK.
I.e instead of paying ú15 a month to play, you pay 125M ISK. (Or whatever the want).
The traditional method will still exist.
The GTCs will still exist.
You will not be able to buy GTC from another player for ISK, because you can buy the game time from CCP directly, for isk.
Not hard to follow, don't see why everyone is insulting Kieron. Makes perfect sense to me.
Look at it like this: I'm a student. I can pay all my bills, but this game is a luxury. I can spend the time to make 125M a week, I use one week to pay for my time in Eve, and the other three weeks what I want. Rinse and repeat. I don't have to pay CCP anything.
That's what has been posted.
To those few people that did pick up on it correctly: yes, that means that technically, everyone playing Eve doesn't need to pay any real money at all.
I love this idea because, like I said, I'm a poor student. But on the other hand, it makes no sense - where will CCP get the money from to generate new content etc? With a single shard universe like this, the pay-for-expansions won't work. The only other option is pay-for-content (i.e. I pay real money for a Scorpion). I quite like that idea, I think it's what Sony are/were trying to do with EQ. It reduces the ebuyers, makes it a safe transaction (cause it's being done with the developer), and would reduce farmers, unless they thought they could give you more isk for your real money.
Hmm.
-J
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