Assembly Hall

Idea for using Aurum in metagame and 3rd party services.

CCP Creates a well designed Metagame Portal Website.

EVE-LIFE or something similar.

This site hosts different outlets and services. Like Artists, Video links, Podcasts etc.

All these services are created by the players as kickstarter like project pages.

The Project then has a Donate button. This makes you able to directly donate isk to a service or project. First is Startup and a donation target to start the service. When the service is running it show weekly revenues from donations. The project creator can then cash in the isk to his character or get aurum that can be used on any character on his account. Preferably the Aurum should also be possible to somehow cash in for real life value, but only things from EVE products. This could be buying keychains etc. After such items have left CCP its free for the private person to resell these on something like ebay or to friends, fools and family.

Wont this cause a potential competition and loss to CCP revenues?

No not really the added value the project holder has created and invested tim ein has more value then any competition, basically he is voluntarily donating his time and labor to create content and value to CCP, that would directly be linked into the revenue producing PLEX and subscription economy.

Personally I believe most projects would cash only in isk, because you would need some considerable volume to want to try and convert to any real value in this system. Also I think a lot would invest in PLEX for themselves and their affiliates and supporters.

To mention examples of a recent very impressive labor that would have been very suuited to this model would be Xander Phoenas Crossing Zebra candidate Interviews. He did 28 candidates of about 1 hour each, and put in post production and preproduction research to total something around 120 hours total work. That is equivalent to almost a months full time effort, or 3 weeks at least. That means he produced content equivalent to 4000$ using Icelandic avg salaries. You would have to get a lot of donations to be able to extract that value in any way. So lets say he got quite a lot of donations, maybe 1000$ worth of equivalent PLEX conversion. Would it not be fair if he could withdraw physical values for say at least half of that? This is only the player voluntary donated ones..

I would say that once a metagame reach a certain consistant level of donations, ccp should consider making that persons account a legacy account, where no payment to play way needed. If traded that status should ofc be lost. I think something along this would really make sure some of the players that risk burnout or rage-breaks or real life commitment issues would still feel strongly connected to EVE without being able to maintain ingame activity, or even keep up metagame productivity.