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simply converted isk into plex to put a dollar value on what was taken in the scam. you can not legally convert isk into real life currency, however people do sell/buy isk.

The total isk involved in the scam is mentioned in RL cash value using the 30 day plexus just to show the magnitude of the scam. It is for the shock value and doesn't equate to reality.

Simply put, a plex costs about $15 for 30 days. Thats about 450 mil isk. The sites selling isk for cash will do it for less than that, say 10$ or so. Obviously they will be paying even lesser than that if they are buying isk from you. I doubt that since they can easily run a few botter accounts and earn that without paying you.

What i mean is the reports about the RL cash value of those scams are just theoretical. He can never sell it for the same value as the plex.

And i guess that CCP might be keeping an eye on chars with insane isk reserves..

Selling any in game asset, for RL money, is against the EULA and will get you banned from Eve. And by the looks of things, they're getting /good/ at detecting it. Take a look at some of the dev blogs by CCP Sreegs to see what I mean.

Just thought it was important enough to mention again.

As everyone is saying, that headline is just what someone would have had to pay, to buy those plex for RL money from CCP.

i know of the article you mentioned, there is a market for in game currency, but its not legal, and if caught by ccp the isk is seized and your account is banned. Seeing how I'm making approximately 400-500 million an hour trading i wish i could sell the isk, then i could in some way justify my time spent playing this game.

There is no way I could convert my isk, be it what I scammed with T4U or what I've made from other ventures, for the dollar sum that the news sites claim. It's the same as when the media prints a story about a massive drug seizure and quote the "street value" of the drugs, which is generally many times more than the actual value of the drugs taken, because it makes for more impressive news.

I've never attempted to convert my isk pile illegally. When CCP give me legimitate ways to do it, like subbing my accounts with PLEX (I have a lot of accounts) or buying GFX cards for PLEX then I take advantage of it. If CCP were to offer me £s on the PLEX to convert my in-game wealth to RL currency then I'd probably take advantage of that too, but I don't know if they would ever offer such a deal and I'm unsure of what the impact of such a thing would be on the game.

It's a game, and it's best you play it for fun. There are easier ways to make money.

There are few legal ways to get "RL value" out of ISK, most common being just buying PLEX with ISK and using it to pay for your account. Maybe even get several if you have a lot of ISK. And help your friends by paying their accounts also.

You can also buy tickets to yearly fanfest with PLEX (but you need to pay at least airplane tickets and hotel with real money. I might actually go there if I could use PLEX to pay for everything.)

And earlier this year CCP did small test by selling graphics cards with PLEX (shipping included). There was only 100 cards and they were sold in less than 2 minutes. There has been no information whether CCP will repeat this some day.


But getting 50,000$ worth out of ISK will be quite impossible. Unless you plan on playing EVE for 200+ years, or you have a lot of friends in which case each can have small benefit from free accounts.

EDIT: And I forgot: CCP allows players to sell EVE related services for ISK. So you could get e.g. website for your character/corporation with ISK.

But you will never get real cash from ISK. Not legally anyway.