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So how bad did the economy just get screwed by Amazon?

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Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#81 - 2013-10-28 00:18:18 UTC
Herr Esiq wrote:
CCP Guard wrote:
dei'ro wrote:
CCP Guard wrote:
Hey everyone.

It appears that Amazon, who operate as a third party re-seller for some of our products, put the wrong price on a package of PLEX and then quickly pulled the offer once the error was discovered.

A few thousand extra PLEX are in circulation as a result which is not enough to cause any significant or lasting impact on the in-game markets.

There shouldn't be any fallout but we'll monitor the situation of course. If you or anyone you know has encountered any problems related to this incident, you are invited to file a support ticket.





Since this deal was not available outside of the US, are you going to release cheap plexes to the non-US masses?
Because at the moment the US got a massive advantage (lol 2billion for 5 bucks)


We didn't really release any cheap PLEX...this was a short-lived mistake by a re-seller that nobody is planning to repeat intentionally.

Maybe this is a good moment top drop Amazon as a reseller since its been bad news twice now.


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Erotica 1
Krypteia Operations
#82 - 2013-10-28 00:20:24 UTC
CCP Guard wrote:
dei'ro wrote:
CCP Guard wrote:
Hey everyone.

It appears that Amazon, who operate as a third party re-seller for some of our products, put the wrong price on a package of PLEX and then quickly pulled the offer once the error was discovered.

A few thousand extra PLEX are in circulation as a result which is not enough to cause any significant or lasting impact on the in-game markets.

There shouldn't be any fallout but we'll monitor the situation of course. If you or anyone you know has encountered any problems related to this incident, you are invited to file a support ticket.





Since this deal was not available outside of the US, are you going to release cheap plexes to the non-US masses?
Because at the moment the US got a massive advantage (lol 2billion for 5 bucks)


We didn't really release any cheap PLEX...this was a short-lived mistake by a re-seller that nobody is planning to repeat intentionally.


Can we please have a "lowest price of the year" price matching guarantee for PLEX later this year, available just in the US? I mean if we were to have an accidental repeat, this would be funny. Blink

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#83 - 2013-10-28 00:22:54 UTC
CCP Guard wrote:
mynnna wrote:
To put it into perspective, "a few thousand" is about the size of the last real plex sale, if jita volume is any indicator. That didn't crash the economy, neither will this...


We've had PLEX sales that have moved volumes far greater than tonight.

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#84 - 2013-10-28 00:27:34 UTC
CCP Guard wrote:
dei'ro wrote:
CCP Guard wrote:
Hey everyone.

It appears that Amazon, who operate as a third party re-seller for some of our products, put the wrong price on a package of PLEX and then quickly pulled the offer once the error was discovered.

A few thousand extra PLEX are in circulation as a result which is not enough to cause any significant or lasting impact on the in-game markets.

There shouldn't be any fallout but we'll monitor the situation of course. If you or anyone you know has encountered any problems related to this incident, you are invited to file a support ticket.





Since this deal was not available outside of the US, are you going to release cheap plexes to the non-US masses?
Because at the moment the US got a massive advantage (lol 2billion for 5 bucks)


We didn't really release any cheap PLEX...this was a short-lived mistake by a re-seller that nobody is planning to repeat intentionally.


Lets repeat it just for a little bit.
Blawrf McTaggart
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#85 - 2013-10-28 00:36:50 UTC
AIric Vitex wrote:
CCP Guard wrote:
Hey everyone.

It appears that Amazon, who operate as a third party re-seller for some of our products, put the wrong price on a package of PLEX and then quickly pulled the offer once the error was discovered.

A few thousand extra PLEX are in circulation as a result which is not enough to cause any significant or lasting impact on the in-game markets.

There shouldn't be any fallout but we'll monitor the situation of course. If you or anyone you know has encountered any problems related to this incident, you are invited to file a support ticket.





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Pr1ncess Alia
Doomheim
#86 - 2013-10-28 01:01:36 UTC
PLEX was such a good idea

there was no way the system could be abused or go wrong

I know this because people kept explaining the intricacies of how it could never negatively impact the game

Lol
Alice Saki
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#87 - 2013-10-28 01:26:31 UTC
Shame I missed this, Being in the UK their are always around to buy VIA a US site, quite Simple really. Would have loved some cheap plex.

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Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#88 - 2013-10-28 01:34:34 UTC
Herr Esiq wrote:
I just wonder why CCP keeps valuing US customers over EU/RU/AU customers. Doesnt look like good company practice to keep kicking such a large playerbase to their teeth.

This again... Is it really too hard to believe it's Amazon screwing up in rolling a deal out?

The last PLEX sale, which hit the U.S. first and Europe a few days later, was an Amazon fulfillment thing, not a CCP thing. That one was Amazon not bothering to do a simultaneous roll-out.

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Black Water Oasis
#89 - 2013-10-28 01:39:15 UTC
All the cries of entitlement are bloody hilarious.
So you didn't get plex. Neither do I, life isn't fair and if you want to blame CCP for a resellers mistake then I guess your stuck believing the sun moves around the earth.

Just move on to another day of eve and go blow more ships up.

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Pandemic Horde
#90 - 2013-10-28 01:41:20 UTC
I am just glad that Black Legion found a way to get their supers back
Lux Marquis
Shipyard Trading Co.
#91 - 2013-10-28 02:01:29 UTC
Some of us "mericans" saw a window of opportunity and took it.

I did, however, give all the PLEX away to my fellow UK friends because I know they would do the same for me Blink

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Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#92 - 2013-10-28 02:05:06 UTC
Frying Doom wrote:
I think


No.

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Doomheim
#93 - 2013-10-28 02:08:39 UTC
CCP Guard wrote:

We didn't really release any cheap PLEX...this was a short-lived mistake by a re-seller that nobody is planning to repeat intentionally.


So, no free skillpoints, amiright ? Blink

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#94 - 2013-10-28 04:17:34 UTC
It's easy to tell who the poor people are.

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Sunshine and Lollipops
#95 - 2013-10-28 04:20:57 UTC
So ~1% of the yearly volume in Jita? Meh. vOv
Gothikia
#96 - 2013-10-28 05:21:45 UTC
Herr Esiq wrote:
I just wonder why CCP keeps valuing US customers over EU/RU/AU customers. Doesnt look like good company practice to keep kicking such a large playerbase to their teeth.


I'm guessing the new head marketing guy doesn't give a **** v0v. Probably that and all the new toxic EA blood is spilling over to the others there in Iceland...

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Frying Doom
#97 - 2013-10-28 06:02:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Frying Doom
Malcanis wrote:
Frying Doom wrote:
I think


No.



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Retribution Holdings Corp
Retribution.
#98 - 2013-10-28 06:52:09 UTC
xRyokenx wrote:
Kenneth Feld wrote:
It was a sale at Amazon, it said so clearly on the buy page

Normal price $49.99, with a line thru it and $4.98 next to it



This man speaks the truth.


looks like it was a typo this is what it looks like now

$49.99 (strike thru) $49.98 (coincidence its looks like $4.98) However 1 cent reduction? lol is that for real?
Frying Doom
#99 - 2013-10-28 07:31:24 UTC
Pr1ncess Alia wrote:
PLEX was such a good idea

there was no way the system could be abused or go wrong

I know this because people kept explaining the intricacies of how it could never negatively impact the game

Lol

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Giving players a more robust system to exchange game-time for ISK is something we also deem necessary as a result of abuse, exploitation, fraud and hard core companies trying to sell you ISK directly. In the end, this only hurts you the customer and therefore the universe of EVE.

We must continue to battle this and it‘s time for a new strategy. We see what the secure trade of ETCs between players did and we want to investigate ways of making that easier by enable all players to trade amongst themselves directly. If the key to battling RMT is to allow players to casually and securely exchange gametime for ISK, thereby neutralizing RMT companies as a necessary supply, then that is an acceptable, necessary evil.

We ask you, "don‘t hate, participate" in this endeavour.

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/i-can-resist-anything-but-temptation/

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Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#100 - 2013-10-28 08:18:13 UTC
It's part of the conspiracy !! (oh my, i never run out of **** to post with this xD)

Because of the stop of FoodStamps coming November,
the US gov told Amazon to sell PLEX cheaply so people will play EvE
instead of rioting on the streets, because they are hungry !!


Can't you people see it ????