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Desmont McCallock
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Posted - 2012.04.11 18:39:00 -
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The card will probably be this: http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=01G-P3-1460-KR&family=GeForce%20500%20Series%20Family&sw= |
Doc Banshee
Baby Seal Bashing Club Ninja Unicorns with Huge Horns
1
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Posted - 2012.04.11 18:43:00 -
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I think this is one of the best things to come out of CCP in a long, long time.
I have a crappy old geforce 285, thats struggling to run all 4 clients at once. I'm more than happy to pay 10bn worth of plexes for a new gfx.
If I can't get one of the first 100, tough luck. In the end, 10bn isn't that much.
Even if they had charged 15-20 plexes instead. It wouldn't matter That way, theres a higher chance for us who can afford it, to get free gfx.
It saves me money, that I'd rather spend on my family/kids
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Jarnis McPieksu
392
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Posted - 2012.04.11 18:47:00 -
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GTX 560 is only about 20-25% faster than GTX 285. You would be making a terribly poor upgarde. Can't you people realize that non-Ti 560 is not a very fast card. |
Doc Banshee
Baby Seal Bashing Club Ninja Unicorns with Huge Horns
1
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Posted - 2012.04.11 18:55:00 -
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Jarnis McPieksu wrote:GTX 560 is only about 20-25% faster than GTX 285. You would be making a terribly poor upgarde. Can't you people realize that non-Ti 560 is not a very fast card.
It's still an upgrade from a 2 y/o card. And again. Its free, since I dont pay to play - and yes. My gaming time IS free - since I mostly play from work. |
Fiapo
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
0
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Posted - 2012.04.11 18:56:00 -
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Just wanted to ask if i manage to get this card eventualy would i have to pay extra to pick it up or all shipment payments are included so i can just get it off the post office? |
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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises Otherworld Empire
3079
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Posted - 2012.04.11 18:56:00 -
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videocards!!
Also will one be able specify shipping address and such later on, in case I want to buy it as a gift?
/c
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Fiapo
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
0
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Posted - 2012.04.11 18:59:00 -
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Chribba wrote:videocards!!
No you cant haz them good sir. :) |
Moto Akimoto
Tengu and Cash
5
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Posted - 2012.04.11 19:02:00 -
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+1 to CCP for this idea. I myself won't take advantage of it because I had a GTX 560 card but got rid of it ( consumed too much electricity and created too much heat ). I sold it for about $75 USD on Ebay if I recall correctly.
I would like to see the same deal on AMD 7000 series cards or NVidia Teslas.
Sarmatiko wrote:CCP should sell PS3 for PLEX, because there is no reason for EVE player to buy this console with real money to play DUST
This!!! 100x this!!! I would speculate that every hardcore Eve player would take advantage of this deal. Sony would love CCP and CCP would make a killer profit. DUST 514 accounts would explode overnight. PLEX prices would freakin' skyrocket though.
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Zowie Powers
Hole in the wall
70
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Posted - 2012.04.11 19:24:00 -
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Moto Akimoto wrote:+1 to CCP for this idea. I myself won't take advantage of it because I had a GTX 560 card but got rid of it ( consumed too much electricity and created too much heat ). I sold it for about $75 USD on Ebay if I recall correctly.
All those CSM members with their prior knowledge of supply & demand changes could do very well indeed. |
Ghe
Targeted Aggression
3
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Posted - 2012.04.11 19:37:00 -
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If CCP actually choose some decent hardware for deals like this i would be jumping in on the offer in heartbeat
These cards aren't even the GTX 560 TI models that have decent performence. So they proberly got a very good deal from a manufacturer (EVGA?) with these outdated gfx cards.
Should CCP choose to make a similar offer with a Geforce GTX 680 (within some months of the realse of the card) for plex worth around double the market price of the cards i would most likely grap it. |
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Desmont McCallock
159
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Posted - 2012.04.11 19:41:00 -
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Chribba wrote:videocards!!
Also will one be able specify shipping address and such later on, in case I want to buy it as a gift?
/c I can only imagine for whom this gift is for ....chip. lol |
Wan Geferd
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
0
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Posted - 2012.04.11 19:41:00 -
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This is a really nice idea but instead of needing 20 plex could CCP give offers for less plex?
I'm thinking something like buying stuff from the eve store for say 2+ plex. Something like a hoodie for 2-3 plex, the beer mug for 1 plex etc. etc.
And the shipping costs for 1 plex ofcourse :) |
Imogen Filiotov
Gene Works Gatekeepers Universe
0
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Posted - 2012.04.11 19:58:00 -
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Nice idea, but..
What about RMA'ing these cards? If its DOA or such, we then have to pay shipping to return it.. and where to return it? Buying with PLEX, does this mean the distance selling Act for goods is null as effectively, you haven't paid cash or had a credit/debit card charge?
I'm sorry, but having a store guarantee is more useful as well as the OTT price structure. |
DeODokktor
Dark Templars The Fonz Presidium
5
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Posted - 2012.04.11 20:15:00 -
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JackEuchre wrote:Didn't CCP just put out a blog on banning RMT'ers? Now it seems they are enabling them.
Yea, But ccp gets to dip into the profits on this twice. Once on the ETC purchase, and then once again on the video card profit. Your getting about 150$ and it's costing you about 350$ (and you can expect to pay taxes in some places!).
Wonder what sort of trading laws the EU would apply to this, Buying of goods and services have distance regulations, so all sales are not final.
The people who will be pissed off by this are the people who pay for a lot of accounts with plex. CCP is trying to get 2,000 plexes to exit the game. That's a LOT of plexes. 2,000 players for a month.
Time codes are going from 500+ to 600+ today and probably if people do buy into this crackpot scheme... 700+ tomorrow.
There's a couple of other legit ways that players get money from ccp using their ingame isk, I think the payout is quite a lot better than this 42% return.
It might work to get some people to dump isk, I am not sure about it. CCP have made it clear that the "sandbox" is closed and that everything in game is theirs to mutate as they wish, adding this layer of "trading" is deadly and when it gets abused then players will have no recourse.
CCP makes a lot of money from EvE, it's their product and as such they should be allowed to do so, but it plexes* me as to why they would try to sell the feathers from the goose that's laying the golden egg. |
Whitehound
27
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Posted - 2012.04.11 20:27:00 -
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I like the idea, because I still have a GTX260 and enough ISKs for 20 PLEX.
There is however one problem. What do I do with 20 PLEX should I not get a card? I pay for my subscription and do not need PLEX. Nor do I find trading with PLEX attractive to my game.
Can I buy one just with ISKs? |
DeODokktor
Dark Templars The Fonz Presidium
5
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Posted - 2012.04.11 20:35:00 -
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Whitehound wrote:I like the idea, because I still have a GTX260 and enough ISKs for 20 PLEX.
There is however one problem. What do I do with 20 PLEX should I not get a card? I pay for my subscription and do not need PLEX. Nor do I find trading with PLEX attractive to my game.
Can I buy one just with ISKs?
No, you need to do it indirectly. Buy plex, reverse redeem, and hope tomorrow your one of the 100 that can apply (else you have 20 plexes that you probably overpaid for!)..
CCP do not (nor do users) want a direct isk->$$ scheme in place. Driving plex prices up will give incentive for players who would buy isk to do it using Plexes (thus driving real purchase demand). Isk exiting the game (only 10 trillion) would probably only strengthen the value of ISK and just provide a finacial loss to CCP. |
Ispia Jaydrath
Reib Autonomous Industries
56
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Posted - 2012.04.11 20:41:00 -
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My accounts are plexed and I made 25 billion last month. This is a good deal for me.
As far as speed, it looks like the 560 is very slightly slower than the 560 ti, and substantially faster than the 460; and I know from experience that the 460 is much faster than the 285.
It might not be cutting edge exactly, but modern video cards are very overpowered for most things. Consoles are still running on the equivalent of an nvidia 7-series. |
Karah Serrigan
The Hatchery Team Liquid
23
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Posted - 2012.04.11 20:48:00 -
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I really wish some CCP employee could give some insight on these crucial questions:
What card is it exactly? Where are the graphic cards being sent from? If im (technically) not paying any real Gé¼ for it, will it still be counted as its full price regarding taxation (that would mean about 30Gé¼ for germany sadly)?
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Lady Spink
Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic
11
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Posted - 2012.04.11 21:12:00 -
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From what country will it be shipped? Iceland? US? I need to know this because of the tax i might or might not need to pay. |
Fiapo
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
0
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Posted - 2012.04.11 21:14:00 -
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And if you decide to go for this videocard you might wanna upgrade your power-supply as well to a minimum of 700W since your "standard" 450W power supply wont keep up wit this card |
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Fiapo
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
0
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Posted - 2012.04.11 21:16:00 -
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Lady Spink wrote:From what country will it be shipped? Iceland? US? I need to know this because of the tax i might or might not need to pay.
I`m interested in this as well since they say that the shipment and handling is done by them but we need to pay extra taxes once the card arrives at your destination so it's another headache to deal with. |
Dalmont Delantee
The Black Legionnares BLACK-MARK
27
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Posted - 2012.04.11 21:18:00 -
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Camios wrote:Buying a 150Gé¼ card for 270Gé¼ does not sound the smartest thing to do; but on the other hand if you have 10 billions isk you don't need at all (neither for paying your subscription in the future), and you have an old gfx card in your 'puter this offer looks good.
I think that CCP should clarify that these offers are convenient only for those who have a lot of cash ingame and don't know what to do with it.
Personally I think only Morons would think that you buy GTC's convert to plex and then buy the card.
If I had the ingame isk to get one then Iwould.
Personally I want plex for Pizza, but sadly dominos doesn't deliver to the valley I live in up the welsh mountains :P |
Olaf4862
Supreme Authority of Questionable Descisions. SoulWing Alliance
4
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Posted - 2012.04.11 21:21:00 -
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I am going to just say this: Odds are these cards are going to be gone by tomorrow. I am sure more then enough players have already bought the plexes they need awhile ago to get these cards back when it was announced at fanfest.
So my guess is it takes less then 24 hours, id even lean to them being gone in like the first 20 mins its active on the site, lol. |
Visreae
Iskitution Philanderies Associated
4
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Posted - 2012.04.11 22:08:00 -
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Anyone who participates in this is antipatriotic to eve, including ccp.....
That card is worthless in 2 months, and they'r charging double for it.
Does it come with a cool graphic'd heatsink? maybe a claimable in game statless ship(like in anniversary's and xmas)
Or is this another attempt by ccp to manipulate a finely balanced economy with a bulldozer?
Just, just dumb.... please people buy these cards, you'll have less isk with which to influence my universe with, enjoy grabing your ankles. |
ight8
Divine Power Industries
15
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Posted - 2012.04.11 22:10:00 -
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I love this idea, it supports players who need better graphics cards and provides an isk sink. There are alot of people in Eve with 10-20 bill sitting in a wallet somewhere or have 100's of billions in crap laying around in stations long forgotten. I think isk needs a solid value marker like RL paper money is to gold. Even Chucky Cheese gives out prizes for tickets. |
DeODokktor
Dark Templars The Fonz Presidium
6
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Posted - 2012.04.11 22:21:00 -
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ight8 wrote:I love this idea, it supports players who need better graphics cards and provides an isk sink. There are alot of people in Eve with 10-20 bill sitting in a wallet somewhere or have 100's of billions in crap laying around in stations long forgotten. I think isk needs a solid value marker like RL paper money is to gold. Even Chucky Cheese gives out prizes for tickets.
Do you know what a Isk Sink is?..
This may create more isk flow, but that's not an Isk Sink. |
Xenuria
Center Haus Apocalypse Now.
504
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Posted - 2012.04.11 22:25:00 -
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gfldex wrote:Quote:We are proceeding carefully, with a limited stock at this time, to enable us to evaluate any impacts of this unique and innovative offer on the EVE economy, and understand any challenges arising from this form of exchange of game world currency for real world goods. Read: We are competing with our customers over PLEX and as such driving PLEX prices up. When we did that the last time a statue was damaged in the process, so we a are a more careful this time. Are you aware of the fact that 2000 PLEX is more then there is on stock in Jita?
Yes... That is the whole point and I think it is an awesome idea. Plex will actually be worth something for once and buying plex with real money will actually become practical. The Future of GoonSwarm |
Piwat King
Piwat Explorations Enterprises
6
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Posted - 2012.04.11 22:27:00 -
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I'm laughing right now at all of you thinking this is about benefitting the guys with lots of iskies in EVE,
Boy you sure are a clueless bunch of little sheep.
This is about selling more plex! (proof is in the fact they've had 2 plex "sales" so close together and now this!)
Think about it nooblets.
The majority of plex sales come from a core group of people who buy plexes on a regular basis.
in the last 6 months CCP's been losing subscriptions because they haven't been fixing thier broken game. (that and RMT groups in 0.0 have been getting removed by the playerbase causing more sub losses)
to recoup some of those losses they advertise some little trinket for sale that you can buy with plexes.
Plex prices go up, making it a better time to purchase plexes to sell for isk so the plex buyers are essentially getting bigger bang for thier buck.
Some people get a new GFX card for well $0 and the regular plex buyers get more isk.
Pretty simple. Just how many people fall for it..... well we shall see. I bought 18 bil worth of plexes @ around 500 mil each. I'm hoping to make a tidy profit off this deal myself.
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DeODokktor
Dark Templars The Fonz Presidium
6
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Posted - 2012.04.11 22:33:00 -
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Also... I would like to know. Are these units going to be tagged with serial numbers, and any turning up on ebay resulting in the purchasing accounts getting banned.
After all, Isk -> $$$ = ban.. No?
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Karah Serrigan
The Hatchery Team Liquid
24
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Posted - 2012.04.11 22:42:00 -
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Piwat King wrote:I'm laughing right now at all of you thinking this is about benefitting the guys with lots of iskies in EVE,
Boy you sure are a clueless bunch of little sheep.
This is about selling more plex! (proof is in the fact they've had 2 plex "sales" so close together and now this!)
Think about it nooblets.
The majority of plex sales come from a core group of people who buy plexes on a regular basis.
in the last 6 months CCP's been losing subscriptions because they haven't been fixing thier broken game. (that and RMT groups in 0.0 have been getting removed by the playerbase causing more sub losses)
to recoup some of those losses they advertise some little trinket for sale that you can buy with plexes.
Plex prices go up, making it a better time to purchase plexes to sell for isk so the plex buyers are essentially getting bigger bang for thier buck.
Some people get a new GFX card for well $0 and the regular plex buyers get more isk.
Pretty simple. Just how many people fall for it..... well we shall see. I bought 18 bil worth of plexes @ around 500 mil each. I'm hoping to make a tidy profit off this deal myself.
So what youre saying is, the people who just want a GFX card for $0 profit, the people who sell plexes to get isk profit and CCP profits from it too? I can totally see how this is an evil move by ccp.
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