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Re removing sub 1000 Aurum balances, I Totally agree,It is an appalling suggestion, naturally the lobbying (CSM) by the Nullblock bulk holders will have convinced CCP that diluting their massive Plex holdings would be bad for EVE, and they have the good of the game at heart, honestly

It is a BAD decision, The nullblocks are big boys and will cope with it, we do not need CCP to manipulate things in their favour, at the expense of the little guy.

i think converting to one currency is good

i think stealing aurum is bad

Why don't You just change PLEXes into AUR and let you buy gametime for AUR? (also add AUR as ingame item).

A couple of things;

1. Unifying your various real money based currencies by killing Aurum; Good.
2. Trying to stiff arm your customers by not cashing out sub 1k Aurum balances, after charging real money for Aurum, while openly stating your financial motives for doing so in a public devblog?: Bad... Dude where's my class action lawsuit bad.




Imagine for a moment that some company like Sony would go and publish an announcement saying to the effect 'All PlayStation Network Wallet balances under $5 will not be honored and have been deleted.' They would take a lawsuit up the rear sphincter. Your a corporation that is selling product across jurisdictions worldwide and what you've proposed is going to run into problems. It's theft with more words.

You do have options for removing the long tail of Aurum accounts off your balance sheet responsibly. You don't have to convert all that Aurum into the new PLEX system at a single time. You can convert sub 1000 Aurum balance it 1/6th at a time for 6 months after freezing the obsolete currency. Or more plainly, you could outright convert remaining sub 1000 Aurum into Skill Points at a rate of your choosing, appropriate to the training time it could create. That's a piece of monetary policy that you do control, would remove the PLEX liability from the balance sheet, while furthering your goals of getting more players to try the process of consuming skill points.

Ultimately as a customer the concerning thing here isn't that you are streamlining your currency or altering what products you might sell via microtransactions in the future. The concern lies in the fact a multiple point failure in your internal practices and controls has occurred to the point where you have publically published and openly declared an intended path of theft. That failure requires internal review.

why not 300 or 600 ? it would open up the possibility for paying for just 1 day of game time in the future, also **** move for stealing my 250 AUR...

for example if i wanted to buy the marauder pack for 5400 AUR all i need it getting the 24.99 € aur package, without the extra few aur i would need to buy the 49.99 or a combination of smaller packages which would mean a money loss, i am srsly considering contacting German customer protection, it might be pennies but they are my pennies

Stealing something I paid for is not going to fly.

Splitting up a plex to 500 pieced but requireing you to have all 500 pieces to add game time is ********.

So I hope this PLEX change is the first step from featuree called "pay for time you spent in game".

I want for such a long time to have such an option in EVE and WOW to pay xx amount of PLEX/money to either
1/ play for 2 - 3 days as Omega clone
2/ to have something like top my time credit that will allow me to play for some time as Omega and that will be depleted only during time I am online in the game.

For me as casual player this would be great feature to pay some PLEX / money for 2 - 3 days of play time. As it is quite waste of money ( for me mainly ) to pay for 30 days of game time via plex or subscription and not play at least for 10 days bcs of RL things ( family , kids, work , travel )

So hope CCP you will bring this feature in near future.

One currency: Great, but make it 100 or 1000 conversion, ain't nobody time for math.

Purging AUR: Terrible idea PR-wise, monocle gate 2.0, etc. Convert it into something.


Like less than 1000 AUR -> free revamp.

• costs CCP nothing in terms of lost sales
• won't impact PLEX prices
• will be useful for inactive accounts too

The only positive change I see in this 'new' plex system is that somone who want to buy a new jacket on the eve store for 385p(plexes), will have to buy from CCP even pack of plexes, and then he would return to the market remaing 115 plexes is his account - it would have impact on price per plex(from time to time) depend on new conntent, making 30 days sub extend cheaper.

Someone suggested that if current plex would transform to 720 pices it would make more sens because 30 days is 720 houers, and that player will be able to inject less then 30 days at once to they sub account. Well if it would be delivered it would have negative impac on what I told.

In the meantime they jumping from one '''clever''' idea to another, so don't be surprise...