Cyprus Black
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2009.01.03 19:12:00 -
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I don't see how it could apply to EvE. Maybe microtransactions involving skill training. But certainly not for ingame ships and modules. Can you imagine the wave of tears pouring in if someone paid RL money for a ship they lost?
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Cyprus Black
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2009.01.04 05:13:00 -
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 Originally by: Cpt Lollercakes
Originally by: Cyprus Black
I don't see how it could apply to EvE. Maybe microtransactions involving skill training. But certainly not for ingame ships and modules. Can you imagine the wave of tears pouring in if someone paid RL money for a ship they lost?
LULZ!
Is this your 1st visit to the forum? Indeed you will see much of this, and its the best thing in eve. ETC's provide the real life money to isk intermediary and ebay'd accounts provide the nubbery. Honestly the joy of watching someone chuck $2000 worth of dread in the blender cos they know no better (or cos they think buying a cap pilot & dread is the same as buying a lvl 70 something in WoW) is pretty much priceless.
No, I've been here a little while. The crying in this forum is nothing compared to the crying on the WoW forums.
And it would be very difficult for CCP to implement microtransactions for ingame items. Yes, there is the crying factor, but there's also the credit card chargebacks too.
Some whiny player looses that one hundred dollar ship, cries to CCP in vain for a free replacement, and files a chargeback with his bank against CCP when they refuse. And since most banks don't really understand online microtransactions, they'd be more than willing to go along with it.
I'm betting that's the biggest concern with microtransactions in EvE.
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