EVE General Discussion

Dear CCP,

thank you for implementing a previously rare and valuable item into the NeX store and throwing it away for 500 Aurum.

The Womens Executor Coat Red/Gold was initially a bonus to the Russian Collector's Edition.
As far as I remember unique ships and items from collectors editions and special boxed releases of the game were always exclusive and therefore a sure investment in Eve Online.

Considering this fact I have been stockpiling 8 of these coats as a slow growing investment for the future. Until Sunday each of these coats was worth ober 350 million ISK.

Now you implement them for for 500 Aurum and thus dropping the price to 50 million each.

CCP, you just screwed every collector and investor of limited issue items.

You cost me 2.4 billion ISK, just by not checking which items were already available in Eve and how their market value was pre-patch.

That must have been the greatest slap in the face I have ever received in Eve Online.

I do await a statement from CCP regarding this matter!

**** happens.

Its almost as bad as the sorts of losses that happen on a daily basis in nullsec!

Seriously, quit your goddamn whining and deal with it.

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Those digital clothes will be all wet with tears.

The Zephyr (and many other special items) says Hi.

If you hear the words "sure investment" in EvE, get ready to lose money.

You purchased those items through a transaction that involved an existing currency in the world outside of Eve,
If people are spending Aura in the NeX store for this stuff - guess what kind of transaction is actually taking place?

In truth you are upset that you lost money on an investment - don't worry it happens all the time.

CCP produced some limited edition items that were coveted by a large portion of the playerbase. The items, unfortunately, were only in the hands of the few who bought boxed versions of the game in specific countries or had a mountain of RL cash to go to Fanfest.

At a certain demand point, it makes great financial sense for CCP to inject these items into the game at a reasonable AUR price. Every PLEX in the game was a $20 addition to CCP's bottom line. Whether the jackets / shirts / widgets cost 500 AUR or 2,000 AUR is largely irrelevant, as most people that want the vest have probably expended all of the free AUR they received for EVE is Real promotions. Therefore, to get the paltry 500 AUR necessary to buy this item, a $20 PLEX must be converted and thus removed from the game.

Now, each of these $20 PLEXes removed to create a small pile of AUR is no longer available for the space-rich folks who want to pay for their multiple accounts entirely with ISK. This means the price of PLEX will steadily rise, creating an incentive for more people to pay the $20 to inject more PLEX into the game to meet the demand.

So, the best investment here was in producing limited edition items with the full intention of making them readily available if the demand was significant. CCP will likely make a tidy profit on the extra PLEX sales. In the process, they've created some tears from folks like the OP who wanted to fleece the plebes for outrageous sums of ISK. As everyone knows that EVE runs on tears--and the tears of the elite offer better mileage than the tears of the masses--I'd say this was a good idea on all fronts.

+1 just for this sentence.

Nope. I've checked Sisi multiple times before patch. There were only 2 items in NeX on Sisi before patch - as I remember these were male pants + *male* red/gold coat. That's why there were multiple buy orders for 150-300mil on TQ right after downrtime - nobody expected CCP may screw up that badly by introducint "collector" item into NeX for cheap. People who expected this (like me =) ) made billions during few seconds after DT selling freshly purchased coats to old 150-300mil buying orders. Same for ishukone shirt.

For me (15 years in MMOs + real clothing shops / retail experience) it is clear CCP doesn't have any experience and clues about avatars, NeX, retail, micro-transactions, etc. I expect more screw ups during their experiments - like 500AUR cheap left/gold monocles for example.

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