EVE General Discussion

Because its out-of-game function: it represents 1 month of game-time.

Because stupidity is always fun.

So?

…and as luck would have it, no-one has made such a claim.

Because it makes it distinctly different and completely unrelated to ships, ammo, rigs, and modules, and as such, having a “monopoly” on it is meaningless.

No and no, in roughly that order. You're imagining things.

Non sequitur, so no, I don't particularly have to. More to the point, it doesn't matter because as you point out, the supposed advantage is available whether you pay or not.

the value of the item has no bearing on its effect ingame, plex could be worth 100bill, but its still useless in game.

the fact is, plex CANNOT be traded for in game "things" that don't comply with this two rules: first, the "thing" must be the result of the eve production chain. and second, the "thing" must not have a bearing on ingame combat or market visibility.

you cant trade plex for golden ammo, you cant trade plex or aur for a NPC produced ship, module or service that can increase combat proficiency or market visibility.

this game has cosmetic microtransactions, and plex. plex is not a microtransaction, AUR is, but the only items for sale in exchange of AUR have no bearing in combat or market visibility, even when they are not player produced.

I have to disagree with this. They provide us with endless in game content

Pretty much



So, you're refuting a claim I never made? If you have a closer look at my post, i said that it is /technically/ p2w, and I also said that you as an individual can come out ahead.

My point wasn't that an individual can't benefit, rather just that the EVE system redistributes in game assets for real world cash, instead of spawning it out of nothing, so the game as a whole is no worse off.

I'm not sure how you took "people who spend cash get no advantage" from that...

I'm not going to agree with your non sequitur, no, because… well… it's a non sequitur so it would be rather silly of me to do so. At that point, your supporting evidence doesn't matter because the conclusion you draw from it is incorrect no matter what.

…or I reject your entire premise, as well as your false dilemma.

…except that PLEX has no in-game function and therefore offers no advantage. It's just game time — time everyone has (because otherwise they wouldn't be in the game). So it is pretty much completely unlike things like modules, ships, and ammo.

If anything, the buyers are at an advantage since they can obviously create that kind of ISK without having to go sell game time to other players to do so, whereas the seller cannot for various reasons. If you want to say that the buying party has a monopoly on PLEX, then the buying party has a far greater monopoly: on ISK. Your come-back will be “anyone can make ISK”, but guess what, under comparable circumstances, anyone can make PLEX too. So if you are really going to go with the monopoly angle, then there are two of them — one on PLEX and one on ISK and both give the same advantage. So in the end, there is no actual advantage since everything cancels itself out.