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No, they're removing the ability to create multiple accounts while adding no money to CCP's coffers.

You can still get the PLEX if the invited hand CCP some cash to fully activate their account. You just can't cycle a PLEX through both accounts to increase the number of accounts (as in: buy PLEX for ISK → invite buddy → give PLEX → activate account with PLEX → get PLEX → sell PLEX for ISK).

Expect the alt cycling ponies here to complain like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u299-o66wo&feature=related

That still works. They can use a PLEX as long as you request 30 days of game time as the reward. Its just PLEX for PLEX that is gone.

The learning curve for eve is incredibly steep. You have just killed your best method for getting new players into the game. This doesn't affect me personally, but whoever made the decision to remove plex for plex has ruined the new player recruitment for many corps. You are going to lose money in the long run. System works great now, so let's break it. I don't understand your logic.

I'm one of the Plex for Plex lovers, and I'm going to miss this option.

Part of what it makes it useful is that 51 days free means it provides enough time to actually become invested in the game. For 14 day and 21 day trials, esp weekend warrior types, you've barely gotten to scratch the surface of EVE before you have to make a decision to fork over cash. With a learning curve far beyond other MMOs, this creates a problem for the potential player. If they're not OCD types like us, complexity for short play periods translates to deciding not activate the new subscription. "It's cool, but it's too time consuming to pay to learn." The 51 days gets more players over that hump. Seven weekends is enough time to follow through on researching and learning basic game mechanics (remember going to look up ONE thing and then realizing 2 hours had passed?). More importantly, 51 days is long enough to train a more substantial character that can really start to do the cool stuff. That gives noobs a taste of the good stuff just before time's up.

If this game were less complex and difficult, 2 or 4 weekends or 8 to 10 play sessions might be enough to pull people in, but that's barely enough time to figure out what the hell is going on here in EVE.

For me personally, they obviously make excellent short term, low skill alts. There's a limit to my ability to pay for alts for temporary gaming goals or to test out professions I haven't tried before. But there's also a limit to how many clients I can run (not many) at one time, so personally it's not like I have had hundreds of alts or anything crazy. It was nice to be able to buy my plex to reup this account and use it to start a 51 day account on which I could train any skill without the trial limitation or to train up an alt for sale so that I can buy more PLEX. Thinking about it for a minute, that's probably the primary benefit over me using a standard trial alt. It's certainly not a convenience I'm going to pay for though, so you won't be making any more money off me than before.

Honestly, I'm not sure in what way the Plex for Plex has been/could be abused other than alt hordes, which can be created anyway with regular trials. The PLEX get bought off the market, end up with player. You give us the first month, you get all the others. They'll still get sold onto the market or burned in other ways. I'm not sure I see the problem.

BTW is it that its still just game time or plex rewards for now? or is there some other reward i'm missing? I can't seem to find anything.

Darn. No more rolling 51-day alts. I guess I will have to train up some new cyno chars then :(

Well, there are the people rolling lots of low skill alts, using up server resources while CCP never get any money from them.

( 1 plex spent, one plex gained. net effect = no cost)

I personally don't see this as a good move for getting new people into the game. I personally had a friend get me into the game using the PLEX for PLEX option, along with about 5 others. I've since paid for my time using cash, and was thinking of getting a few more of my mates into the game via the same method.

The problem I see with this, is that now I have no incentive to use the multiple plex deals that I've seen to save myself some money, while getting friends into the game who will invariably pay in the end themselves.

Another thing broken. I sometimes gave out invites to people cos I would receive PLEX if they can they enough ISK to buy their own PLEX (with my ISK-help). No more...