Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So, everyone knows about ISK farmers.. Item Sellers, and ISK sellers... And how they plague this game and every other MMO.

Solution -

CCP should add a secondary market which deals in Real Money. So people can buy and sell every item in game.. for cash.

* Obviously Margin trading is not allowed in this Market :P.

* CCP would obviously get a cut of the % of profit.

*** CCP and the Player both make money, and "External" RMTers can't function anymore because of this market sicne player prices will always be lower then outside illegal website prices.

Its not pay to win.... You still have to train the skills in eve to use anything.. jeez...

You can buy all the battleships you like, fat lot of good it will do you if you can't even get into it.

That's not really a solution to the problems caused by RMT. That's making it legal and encouraging more of it. Personally I'd hate to see CCP go down this road and it attracts the worst type of people to a game. Games should be games and not jobs or income sources. PLEXes already provide a good alternative for people who want to buy ISKies and all the profit goes to CCP instead of a small cut. People who want to make a living playing EVE shouldn't be catered to in any way.

Yes the will of a minority should ruin the game for the majority. PLEX works because it is players trading something of equal value. RMT would divide the market and ruin the game. I don't care if some idiots job is to play the game and do that for the rest of his life, we shouldn't have to cater to his play-style at the expense of everyone else's.

Actual RMT is not why Diablo failed.

Diablo 3 failed because of Blizzards **** poor release and non caring attitude toward fixing it. They released it and no one could log in for 6 months after release. That's what killed it.

Blizzard had over 2,000,000 people ready to play and excited about it. You should read the forums on blizzards main site sometime, you'll see it had 0 to do with the RMT and that players as a whole LOVED the idea. And even dureing the hard times players did not complain about the rmt market, They complained about the servers constantly crashing, hackers hacking accounts, and the servers being down for weeks on end.

And um.. I also know this because I was one of the people who were working to fix Blizzards mistakes on it after it released. So I had to read everything the players wrote on about it.

After we figured out blizzard had already made its money on the sales and didn't give a ****, we walked off the project.

But anyway back on topic, No it had absolutely nothing to do with the RMT market.

Using Paypal as the 3rd party transfer service solves those issues. Thats what Blizzard did

You couldn't log in because blizzard was releasing a plethora of patches daily to it.

First it was the rebalance daily patching. To keep AH viable they released knee jerk after knee jerk balance patches. Barb fit A is op and farming like crazy....patch Monday to shut it down. Now the sorc buld B is op, patch tuesday.

Wedneday would be something different, the loot/ drop/xp patch to fix farming instance xyz in chapter abc.

Thursday...security patch since the AH had blizzard on the top of every script kiddies radar. D3 was my first ever hacked account in several years of online gaming. It drew the haxors in like flies to crap.

Friday....wtf now Barb build B is farming bad, patch that one as well.

Next monday....start up the patching again. All to keep the AH viable.

To keep from abuse blizzard was patching way too damn much. Why eve doesn't need this. It has pve way more readily farmable. To keep the AH legit, it would involve bring in the knee jerk patching. While I'd prefer the rebalance patching comes sooner, I appreciate its well testedl when it hits in eve (people cba to play on sisi thats on them). I also appreciate the fact ccp focuses on balance based on pvp not pve.

And it be nerf via pve with an AH. I could give a rats ass if a CNR pilot spams rats like no tomorrow....until a pve inspired patch breaks its torps or makes lol cruise even more lol for pvp use.

Really bad idea.

I will tell you what would happen if CCP include a kind of RMT.

All highly expensiv faction and T2 BS, T3 Cruiser and Capitals, which normally coast arround 500 to 1.500 million ISK or 1 to 3 Plexs or 20 to 45 € (or respectivly other currencies), would be sold for real money. Why the heck should I if i want to sell one of these ships sell them for ISK´s. This would result in a lot more Carebearers, because no one would risk a ship which is worth over 20 €.
Also you now can use Plexes to get ISK to buy ships, you do more or less nothing more then paying the subscription fee for an other player. But there is no way to legally get money out of playing eve.

No.

Not empty quoting.