EVE General Discussion

Funny thing is their dev blog said they had over 200 items to choose from, and someone decided to release this clothing which had an existing market price over any of the other apparel.

It was obviously done on purpose.

Lesson to be learnt? Don't ever buy another collectors edition or plex bundle again.

If I had a monocle , any other original clothing or quafe shirts I'd be selling those pronto as they've already basically said they will be releasing them in the future at the same thrifty price point.

Noble exchange? More like 2 dolla shop.

Of course they don't. This is a ******* SPACESHIP GAME! They introduced avatars along with RMT items like this was the game focus and expected everyone to receive it with open arms. How ****** up is that? They use EvE to beta test WoD and Dust RMT, deliver no signifcant content to older players and people still wonder where did it go wrong. Now they are trying to fix all the mess but the damage is already done. Expect even more flop when npcs ship wrecks start dropping pants.
I'm not against avatars but they are doing this **** all wrong. They launched CQ as space doll houses. Clothing have no significance to game lore or mechanics at all. Pure slot machine sloppy design.

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Make some clothing FW reward. Make a few other RMT only. Make some Epic Arc rewards. Thats not hard. Problem is they just wanted a slot machine. Greed is good? Think again.

Dude, all I can tell you is I feel your pain. Well, no I'm secretly laughing at you on the inside. That aside, do you remember the outrage at the prices back when the NeX was seeded? Do you remember how people were telling CCP that it was ludicrous to pay that much for virtual stuffs? And do you remember how the NeX was projected to be a complete and utter failure and that if CCP wanted the NeX to succeed they would have to lower those macro-transaction prices to micro-transaction levels?

Regardless, the NeX items could never be an investment. See, in order for you to achieve a return on your principle you would have had to been able to re-sell those items for a profit. But that could never be achieve because isk could always be used to buy plex which could be converted to aurum to purchase clothing. So, only bigger fools than you would be willing to throw more isk at an item to acquire it in a direct isk/item trade than a isk > plex > aurum > item exchange. And so, in reality, the cost of those items on the isk market could only ever be the price you paid for it or......wait for it......less as seen when CCP gave aurum away and certain items made it to the isk market for, in some cases, 30x less than what was paid for them in aurum.

And if you know anything about economics then there is one thing you can be sure of: If a product is failing at its current price point then it might succeed at a new, lower price point. Obviously, CCP has "devalued" your investment in the hopes to "revaluing" theirs. If the NeX would have been a success at macro-transaction values then you could be sure your investment would have been protected. Unfortunately, as predicted by many players, including myself and as evidenced by this new pricing, the NeX was a failure. CCP has now adjusted their NeX strategy to be more accessible and thus cheaper items.

PS: You might remember this epic meme http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4YHvtEJgBc

Exclusivity doesnt last forever, deal with it.

Will you also be complaining when DUST gets released on PC?

If you play the markets, you will, inevitably, someday lose. This was one of those times, just HTFU.

I doubt those few billions even are worth that much to you, seeing you must've purchased these clothes before with a reasonable amount of ISK hoping to strike a profit later.

That seems like a rather nonsensical lesson. Why shouldn't you buy a bundle just because they throw in free stuff?

Probably inarticulately expressed, more like:

"Don't buy another collectors edition expecting it to actually be exclusive and collectable."

The real lesson here is about the people doing the selling.

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At this point of time I lack any information to comment on this with quality.