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What prevents CCP from injecting materials/items in the market?

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Cpt Swagg
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2014-04-29 14:28:58 UTC
In order to control prices.

What prevents CCP from controlling the way the game is going by "balancing", adding/removing features?

Not as much of a sandbox anymore is it?
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#2 - 2014-04-29 14:31:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Ramona McCandless
They do

Where do you think BPOs come from?

And they alter mechanics all the time. Thats what patches and expansions do.

Whether there is a slide or a sandcastle or a pile of dogpoo in the sandbox doesnt stop it being a sandbox.

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stoicfaux
#3 - 2014-04-29 14:32:21 UTC
Cpt Swagg wrote:
In order to control prices.

What prevents CCP from controlling the way the game is going by "balancing", adding/removing features?

Not as much of a sandbox anymore is it?


If you want a true sandbox, turn off the computer and go outside.

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TigerXtrm
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#4 - 2014-04-29 14:32:34 UTC
*sigh*

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#5 - 2014-04-29 14:35:22 UTC
Guess who decides the spawn rates of various materials and goods? Guess why they occasionally adjust this?
Victor Andall
#6 - 2014-04-29 14:38:35 UTC
I've been having a lot of fun using the Hide Posts From User feature of the forums these past few days.

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Master Flakattack
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2014-04-29 14:43:16 UTC
Cpt Swagg wrote:
In order to control prices.

What prevents CCP from controlling the way the game is going by "balancing", adding/removing features?

Not as much of a sandbox anymore is it?


By this definition, no game is a sandbox. Go as far back as Ultima Online, even it had spawn/drop rates controlled by the devs. Even a Free Market needs a little bit of regulation :)
Cpt Swagg
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2014-04-29 14:43:30 UTC
What prevents them to buy off all your pledges in order to drive the prices up? Then more people will want to buy more plexes irl because are gettin more isks, etc..
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#9 - 2014-04-29 14:46:56 UTC
Cpt Swagg wrote:
What prevents them to buy off all your pledges in order to drive the prices up? Then more people will want to buy more plexes irl because are gettin more isks, etc..



Nothing.

\Its their game, they can do what they want.

If they want to do that and self-destruct the market over night, thats their business

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Elle Ichosira
State War Academy
Caldari State
#10 - 2014-04-29 14:47:44 UTC
I enjoy the fact plex prices are skyrocketing. My isk wallet gets fat while my irl stays just as fat.
Marsha Mallow
#11 - 2014-04-29 14:49:59 UTC
Victor Andall wrote:
I've been having a lot of fun using the Hide Posts From User feature of the forums these past few days.

They should let us hide posts with certain keywords too. I was considering playing SC until I saw the remarks from fans here. If that's what their prospective playerbase looks like, eww.

Re OP, somebody page Dinsdale to thread to explain how devs brainwashed by nullsec cartels are already doing this (or will be, soon™), we're all doomed, yada yada

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Xavier Holtzman
Sith Interstellar Tech Harvesting
#12 - 2014-04-29 14:51:08 UTC
Cpt Swagg wrote:
In order to control prices.

What prevents CCP from controlling the way the game is going by "balancing", adding/removing features?

Not as much of a sandbox anymore is it?



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Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#13 - 2014-04-29 14:51:45 UTC
Cpt Swagg wrote:
What prevents CCP from injecting materials/items in the market


Certainly not the CSM. Blink




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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#14 - 2014-04-29 15:02:09 UTC
Cpt Swagg wrote:
What prevents them to buy off all your pledges in order to drive the prices up?

The complete pointlessness is doing so.
ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#15 - 2014-04-29 15:23:40 UTC
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