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Nvidia card for 20 PLEX
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Nydia Carver
Bacon Corp
#1 - 2012-04-11 18:18:49 UTC
PLEX price already over 515 million in Jita and rising. Cool
Skye Aurorae
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2012-04-11 18:21:42 UTC
It was even up at 547mill, I sold a few and repurchased at 522 when it dropped.

Skye Aurora is a 7 year old Girl Who Wants to be on the CSM! Unfortunately, the Lawyers say you have to be 21 - oh well.
Dirk Decibel
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2012-04-11 18:23:35 UTC
I would really love it if CCP STOPPED using PLEX for stuff other than gametime. Ffs....
Aina Sasaki
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2012-04-11 18:29:47 UTC
Dirk Decibel wrote:
I would really love it if CCP STOPPED using PLEX for stuff other than gametime. Ffs....


Me too. I just want my damned game time! x_x

- Rei
Dirk Decibel
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2012-04-11 18:42:48 UTC
Of course in this case it's 'just' about half a day of Jita trading volume since the offer is limited to 100 cards. Quite a bad conversion rate too though. If you buy your plex for 15 bucks that leaves you with 300 bucks a card.
Bad Bobby
Bring Me Sunshine
In Tea We Trust
#6 - 2012-04-11 19:10:11 UTC
Dirk Decibel wrote:
Quite a bad conversion rate too though. If you buy your plex for 15 bucks that leaves you with 300 bucks a card.

It wouldn't be a particularly smart idea to buy PLEX with RL money in order to get a graphics card, but that's not what CCP intends for you to do.

This offer appeals to people like me, who think of 20 PLEX / 10b isk as the product of a day's gameplay.

If they don't sell out in the first 5 minutes, I'll have a new graphics card for my 2nd PC and another for my 'missus to upgrade hers.
Lecherito
Swag Incorporated
#7 - 2012-04-11 20:29:47 UTC
You're really bragging about stealing other people's wealth?

Tosser.

-L
Dirk Decibel
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2012-04-11 20:39:51 UTC
Bad Bobby wrote:
Dirk Decibel wrote:
Quite a bad conversion rate too though. If you buy your plex for 15 bucks that leaves you with 300 bucks a card.

It wouldn't be a particularly smart idea to buy PLEX with RL money in order to get a graphics card, but that's not what CCP intends for you to do.

This offer appeals to people like me, who think of 20 PLEX / 10b isk as the product of a day's gameplay.

If they don't sell out in the first 5 minutes, I'll have a new graphics card for my 2nd PC and another for my 'missus to upgrade hers.

All that doesn't make it a good conversion rate.
axxeessee
Trade and Supplies Co.
#9 - 2012-04-11 21:40:17 UTC
Dirk Decibel wrote:
Bad Bobby wrote:
Dirk Decibel wrote:
Quite a bad conversion rate too though. If you buy your plex for 15 bucks that leaves you with 300 bucks a card.

It wouldn't be a particularly smart idea to buy PLEX with RL money in order to get a graphics card, but that's not what CCP intends for you to do.

This offer appeals to people like me, who think of 20 PLEX / 10b isk as the product of a day's gameplay.

If they don't sell out in the first 5 minutes, I'll have a new graphics card for my 2nd PC and another for my 'missus to upgrade hers.

All that doesn't make it a good conversion rate.



So at how much do you sell your isk for real life $$ ? Oh right, there is no such rate because its illegal.

So yes, its a very good rate, just not a good one if youre dumb enough to buy PLEXes with $ and then buy the gfx card, but thats not what its supposed to be.
Lauren Hellfury
Super Happy Awesome Fun Times
#10 - 2012-04-11 21:51:05 UTC
I'm looking forward to the rage threads from people that miscalculated the time. Either because they suck at counting or forget that the UK isn't on GMT. Should be fun.


And yes. This is not about how much you'd have to spend to get your card it's about those people with more isk than they can be bothered with being able to trade it about for a free card. More power to CCPs elbow.

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Ms ElectricFeel
#11 - 2012-04-12 01:51:44 UTC
Bad Bobby wrote:
Dirk Decibel wrote:
Quite a bad conversion rate too though. If you buy your plex for 15 bucks that leaves you with 300 bucks a card.

It wouldn't be a particularly smart idea to buy PLEX with RL money in order to get a graphics card, but that's not what CCP intends for you to do.

This offer appeals to people like me, who think of 20 PLEX / 10b isk as the product of a day's gameplay.

If they don't sell out in the first 5 minutes, I'll have a new graphics card for my 2nd PC and another for my 'missus to upgrade hers.


lol this loser is still lurking on md?
Bad Bobby
Bring Me Sunshine
In Tea We Trust
#12 - 2012-04-12 05:40:00 UTC
Lecherito wrote:
You're really bragging about stealing other people's wealth?

Tosser.

-L

No. But if misinterpreting my post makes you call me names then it's all good.
Dirk Decibel
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2012-04-12 07:58:09 UTC
axxeessee wrote:
Dirk Decibel wrote:
Bad Bobby wrote:
Dirk Decibel wrote:
Quite a bad conversion rate too though. If you buy your plex for 15 bucks that leaves you with 300 bucks a card.

It wouldn't be a particularly smart idea to buy PLEX with RL money in order to get a graphics card, but that's not what CCP intends for you to do.

This offer appeals to people like me, who think of 20 PLEX / 10b isk as the product of a day's gameplay.

If they don't sell out in the first 5 minutes, I'll have a new graphics card for my 2nd PC and another for my 'missus to upgrade hers.

All that doesn't make it a good conversion rate.



So at how much do you sell your isk for real life $$ ? Oh right, there is no such rate because its illegal.

So yes, its a very good rate, just not a good one if youre dumb enough to buy PLEXes with $ and then buy the gfx card, but thats not what its supposed to be.

What you all seem to be forgetting is that EVERY single PLEX in game is created through RL money. So CCP DID get those 300+ bucks for every card they sell.

So yes, it's a horrible conversion rate and way too expensive. Just because some ppl are so rich they won't even notice 10 bill missing doesn't make it a good price....
Bad Bobby
Bring Me Sunshine
In Tea We Trust
#14 - 2012-04-12 08:27:37 UTC
Dirk Decibel wrote:
What you all seem to be forgetting is that EVERY single PLEX in game is created through RL money. So CCP DID get those 300+ bucks for every card they sell.

Actually they got the "300+ bucks" for selling the PLEX, not the card.

Who knows what the value of a PLEX is to CCP? They could value it as the cost of providing a month of subscription or something else. The cost of posting the graphics card to a customer could be more or less than the cost of providing a month of subscription. Who knows if they paid NVIDIA for the cards or not, or if that payment was in money, services or good will.

If I exchange 20 PLEX for a graphics card, I am not paying "300+ bucks" of my money for it. I am paying 20 PLEX which someone else paid "300+ bucks" for. I could use those 20 PLEX to sub my accounts for a long time or I could do something else with them. Given the amount of isk I have relative to the amount of RL money I have, it would be foolish for me to spend RL money on an EVE subscription. Equally, it would be foolish for me to spend RL money on a new graphics card when CCP are offering me one for 10b isk.
Dirk Decibel
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2012-04-12 09:29:13 UTC
Bad Bobby wrote:
Dirk Decibel wrote:
What you all seem to be forgetting is that EVERY single PLEX in game is created through RL money. So CCP DID get those 300+ bucks for every card they sell.

Actually they got the "300+ bucks" for selling the PLEX, not the card.

Who knows what the value of a PLEX is to CCP? They could value it as the cost of providing a month of subscription or something else. The cost of posting the graphics card to a customer could be more or less than the cost of providing a month of subscription. Who knows if they paid NVIDIA for the cards or not, or if that payment was in money, services or good will.

If I exchange 20 PLEX for a graphics card, I am not paying "300+ bucks" of my money for it. I am paying 20 PLEX which someone else paid "300+ bucks" for. I could use those 20 PLEX to sub my accounts for a long time or I could do something else with them. Given the amount of isk I have relative to the amount of RL money I have, it would be foolish for me to spend RL money on an EVE subscription. Equally, it would be foolish for me to spend RL money on a new graphics card when CCP are offering me one for 10b isk.

Once again: all that doesn't change anything to the fact that CCP got 300+ bucks for the PLEX used to buy the vidcard, and they don't have to provide anything for the PLEX used in that transaction, cept for said vidcard. A last generation vidcard even.

You can dice and slice that any way you want, it's a crappy deal.
Bad Bobby
Bring Me Sunshine
In Tea We Trust
#16 - 2012-04-12 09:40:48 UTC
Dirk Decibel wrote:
You can dice and slice that any way you want, it's a crappy deal.

For who?
Dirk Decibel
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2012-04-12 09:42:24 UTC
Bad Bobby wrote:
Dirk Decibel wrote:
You can dice and slice that any way you want, it's a crappy deal.

For who?

For everyone not able to throw away 10+ billion isk or the equivalent of that in RL money they would be saving on EVE subs by using that isk for gametime.
Bad Bobby
Bring Me Sunshine
In Tea We Trust
#18 - 2012-04-12 10:08:00 UTC
Dirk Decibel wrote:
Bad Bobby wrote:
Dirk Decibel wrote:
You can dice and slice that any way you want, it's a crappy deal.

For who?

For everyone not able to throw away 10+ billion isk or the equivalent of that in RL money they would be saving on EVE subs by using that isk for gametime.

So for some people it isn't a "crappy deal" and that was my original point.

Just the same as in real life where for some people spending a million pounds on a car is ridiculous extravagance but for others it's a minor luxury that can be purchased at a whim.
Llyandrian
Livestock Science Exchange
#19 - 2012-04-12 10:13:54 UTC
Dirk Decibel wrote:
Of course in this case it's 'just' about half a day of Jita trading volume since the offer is limited to 100 cards. Quite a bad conversion rate too though. If you buy your plex for 15 bucks that leaves you with 300 bucks a card.


That is a naive view, you're comparing apples and oranges.

PLEX are a speculative instrument, more like bonds, the trade hub volume includes a lot of flipping. This takes 2000 PLEX out of the market, the interesting question is how many players will exploit that rise with new PLEX.
Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#20 - 2012-04-12 10:15:57 UTC
Guys you don't really get it (only BB comes close).

This is the first time you can RMT in EvE with CCP's OK.

You can turn PLEX in a real good that you can resell at will.

The possibilities of this "bad deal" are endless.

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