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Oh, that other MMO has PLEX now too...
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Chaos Incarnate
Faceless Logistics
#21 - 2012-06-17 07:21:24 UTC
Cipher Jones wrote:
Well, not exactly, but you can now pay for WoW with DIablo III items, and in a few days, gold. That's gonna hit CCP hard I think.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?



So I can grind in one blizzard game to pay for the privilege to grind in another, older blizzard game? Where do i sign up?! P
Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#22 - 2012-06-17 16:39:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Cipher Jones
Blane Xero wrote:
Cipher Jones wrote:
Nachteule Kohen wrote:
most items will only sell 5$ max and the amount of time it takes to farm an item worth selling isn't worth the time played. maybe in some third world country but for the western world it's better to get a job and spend your free time elsewhere.

not only is it not worth the amount of time put into it, but could you imagine playing diablo for that long? it's boring after a day. painful to accept as a video game after a weak.


As I said its a comparable amount of time to earning an eve plex. If you can imagine someone running missions for a couple hours a day one weekend a month, then you can imagine this.

Point blank; Eve would die if they got rid of the plex system, so the third world reference confuses me. If its not worth playing a game for 7-8 hours to pay for it, why do 10's of thousands of people do it in Eve?

Uhh, no it isn't. You're comparing grinding against RNG and then hoping the RMAH gods favour you to > Hit an Isk Faucet for 3-6 hours for two days on one of the lowest faucets available > pay 400-500m for readily available and plentiful PLEX


No, its not drop dependent. That's just running quests for gold, not hoping you get good drops.

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I always have to chuckle at comments like those. :)


For the longest time I laughed at the Eve is dying threads, until subs went down and PCU went down. When it came back up people tried to rationalize, but if you go to MMO data you will see that subs are down to 316k from 360k (numbers provided by CCP, not guesses made by looking at the PCU), and there was no report for the time they were lowest. I actually said that in a QEN thread when they quit releasing the numbers, that CCP would not release new subscription numbers until they were trending up again.

You can laugh all you want at the notion people leave Eve for other games, but the fact is they are going somewhere

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it
David Toviyah
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2012-06-18 08:26:25 UTC
Cipher Jones wrote:
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?

Was EVE really the first MMO to come up with this form of game time extension?
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#24 - 2012-06-20 11:25:35 UTC
David Toviyah wrote:
Cipher Jones wrote:
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?

Was EVE really the first MMO to come up with this form of game time extension?


I'm not aware of anything similar predating the authorised GTC resales that EVE has had rpetty much since the beginning.

Of course, MMO players were no doubt making unofficial arrangements long before.

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#25 - 2012-06-21 18:11:11 UTC
David Toviyah wrote:
Cipher Jones wrote:
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?

Was EVE really the first MMO to come up with this form of game time extension?


Not sure where people ITT get the notion that something has to be original to be imitated in the first place. I assume its because they view talking about other games as "trolling" and are trying to be "snide" in retaliation.

Anyway its an innovation to say the least.

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it
David Toviyah
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#26 - 2012-06-22 09:32:27 UTC
Well, if EVE was in fact not the first MMO to do so then WoW might very well have imitated the earlier instance rather than EVE. Besides, seeing how wildly different their method is calling it imitation is stupid.
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