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Is the Nobel Exchange a dead donky ?
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Widow Cain
#101 - 2012-06-10 17:12:24 UTC
Azahni Vah'nos wrote:
Widow Cain wrote:
Azahni Vah'nos wrote:
Natsett Amuinn wrote:
It's no different from selling PLEX on the market. Someone spend real world currency on a game item that they're selling to other individuals. Whether that item is the PLEX directly or a shirt from the NeX, it's all derived from the exact same thing.

Care to explain then why the NeX Store even exists at all if there is no difference?


Are you serious, you don't get it, or are you being retorical?

Oh don't worry, I 'get' the NeX Store more than you could possibly imagine.


Ok so you're just trolling then, got it.

OMG You are sooo pixel macho...
Azahni Vah'nos
Vah'nos Family
#102 - 2012-06-10 17:44:57 UTC
Natsett Amuinn wrote:
Azahni Vah'nos wrote:
Natsett Amuinn wrote:
It's no different from selling PLEX on the market. Someone spend real world currency on a game item that they're selling to other individuals. Whether that item is the PLEX directly or a shirt from the NeX, it's all derived from the exact same thing.

Care to explain then why the NeX Store even exists at all if there is no difference?


I can only say that PLEX should be purchased through the NeX, and that having it seperated in the way that they do leads to a lot of confusion and the impression that one is different from the other, when they're not.

Whether the PLEX is purchaed to add gametime or to purchase a shirt, it all starts from the same point. Someone spent money to purchase PLEX. To complain how that PLEX is used is silly. A shirt doesn't effect anyone, any more then someone who used the plex to add a month to their EVE subscription.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that there are people bitching about the NeX who sell PLEX that someone else used to buy **** off the NeX. Don't see anyone bitching about thier PLEX being used to buy a ******* shirt though.

You may wish to have a chat with CCP's accountants because I don't think they will agree with you. So many people don't understand what Plex mean to CCP.

Unused Plex in the game are a liability for CCP whereas a NeX item is not.

Take this scenario however unlikely to help you understand what I mean by liability with regards to accounting. If all the people currently with Plex in the game handed them out so that no-one in the game had to pay a subscription for the next 2-3 months and no-one purchased anymore Plex during that time, sounds great for the players doesn't it? ... not so for CCP as their cashflow would be in dire straits to the point where potentially they couldn't afford to pay employees, partners, loans, etc.

Nex (Cash Shop) / Aurum - removing sand from the sandbox since Incarna. Currently the only use for aurum is to buy virtual items in the in-game store, but Cockerill expects to expand its uses in the future.

Barbelo Valentinian
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#103 - 2012-06-10 19:58:53 UTC
Disregard That wrote:


I'm guessing that at the current metric, the minute the door opens and people try to interact in stations their collective video cards and processors will mostly all fry.

CQ is a computational nightmare as-is. Its design was not well-thought and it shows.

Scaling the disaster up to multiplayer mode won't get Eve new customers. it will probably have the opposite effect.


It's been optimized quite a bit since Incarna days. I never had any trouble running it to start with (on my 3 year old o/c'd 3.8Ghz DualCore, 8G ram, with more recent HD5770 vidcard), and it's even smoother now. By the time they get round to WiS again (which may possibly be next year), I doubt there will be much of a problem.

Although of course with CCP, you can never be quite sure. Geniuses one day, Special Needs the next. Big smile

Anyway, technical issues aside, I hope we've disposed of the canard that the concept of WiS "isn't EVE-ish". It all depends on how it's implemented gameplay-wise. EVE is a bigger game than just pew-pew in space (that's included, but it's not the whole thing, and never has been intended to be the whole thing).
Josef Djugashvilis
#104 - 2012-06-10 20:02:15 UTC
Deader than a dead parrot.

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Cys Root
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#105 - 2012-06-10 20:50:39 UTC
1. Port Dust514 to PC
2. Merge it with EVE
3. Replace "Enter CQ" button with "Beam down to Planet"
JitaPriceChecker2
Doomheim
#106 - 2012-06-10 21:00:59 UTC
The most evil thing about NEX is that items generated there are immortal.
Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local
Break-A-Wish Foundation
#107 - 2012-06-10 22:29:06 UTC
This is the part where I ask if anyone knows why, despite the fact that CCP constantly state that they don't have enough isk sinks, they created an entirely new, completely pointless, non-transferable currency for NEX rather than just making it take isk in order to make it serve as an (allegedly much needed) isk sink.
Kiteo Hatto
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#108 - 2012-06-10 22:57:40 UTC
Vimsy Vortis wrote:
This is the part where I ask if anyone knows why, despite the fact that CCP constantly state that they don't have enough isk sinks, they created an entirely new, completely pointless, non-transferable currency for NEX rather than just making it take isk in order to make it serve as an (allegedly much needed) isk sink.


ISK doesn't pay for wages.
Headerman1
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#109 - 2012-06-10 23:11:46 UTC
It would be great if the NeX has the same amount of things available as the Clothing section of the market.
No More Heroes
Boomer Humor
Snuffed Out
#110 - 2012-06-10 23:27:59 UTC
Mortimer Civeri wrote:
Solhild wrote:
I hope it is soundly killed and the content goes to player industry/sandbox - including ship skins Smile

Can't wait for Goons to start flying pink ships to gank in.


Pink ships covered in dongues & buttes Lol

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Palovana
Inner Fire Inc.
#111 - 2012-06-11 01:20:02 UTC
Savage Angel wrote:
You can exchange the Nobel Prize? What is the going rate?

More than a Heisman Trophy but nowhere close to a Stanley Cup.

Please support: export of settings in editable format

Your stuff goes here.
Myxx
The Scope
#112 - 2012-06-11 08:30:27 UTC
kill it and let players convert all of their aur back into plexes or isk.