EVE General Discussion

I'm a simple guy....give me a few pints of Franzi Dunkle and we're good.

not empty poptarts

I remember signing up and putting random details in.

*facepalms*

I was going to.......no wait, nevermind.

PLEX isn't a currency.
The BSA doesn't apply.

Pretty much end of discussion, really.

Now, on the topic of using random details when signing up, I was always bothered by the fact that no one at CCP questioned my name being Hamster McHamsterpants III, Esq.

I mean come on - no one's parents are that cruel.

Are they?

I'll have a kebab pizza with a coke please

so...

when should we expect the dev blog? :)

Interesting note.

In Zimbabwe, when Mugabe devalued the currency to much they have "billion dollar bills" that purchased nothing, the people resorted to.....

prepaid phone units.


I am not sure of all details, but I remember that they have carriers that allow people to transfer time from one account to another. The people would rely on friends from out of country (meaning they didn't have crap currency) to purchase time cards, and send the codes in, and they would put the time on their phone.

This time became currency. People had value for it, and it was a consumable.

As a commodity, it worked. And in fact, the best currencies in civilization were commodities. They have an intrinsic value, something even gold lacks. (you cannot eat gold - imagine the "glass of water in a desert" scenario).


So I can see ISK and other in-game currencies becoming a commodity, whether governments and game providers like it or not, because if people have value for it, they will trade for it. Period.

And it's always good when people use "the code" as guidelines to survive. A human race too unruly to be centrally managed by desk tyrants is a productive, imaginative, and interesting race indeed.

So while it will be a EULA violation to trade ISK for say, ammunition or produce - something that the US economy might create a need for soon enough - the real fun will come when the government, clawing at the necks of the people while it goes down like a werewolf with a pound of silver bullets in its head, goes to companies like CCP and tries to make ISK transfer between accounts a "criminal act". Don't laugh. It's already such that if you get stopped by the police with a wad of cash in your wallet they can take the money, no charges, no judge, no jury, on the presumption that the money might have been acquired through criminal means. So the precedent is set for the bankster cronies to go to CCP and say that all inter-account ISK transfers are the activity of "competing currency" and hence criminal.


With any luck Iceland will stick to it's habits and tell the government to stuff it.

Otherwise, the ISK transfer will have to happen in space, through jet-canning items of value. The day will come when we will see an article about this: government wanting to send agents into MMOs to make sure people are not trading items of "transferable value". Chances are this will come from agents themselves looking to get paid to play MMOs all day. They already search around looking for terrists in MMOs.