EVE General Discussion

It is always funny to see how butthurt people are about companies gaining money from a product they made. Now we have one of the best companies in the (gaming) world and some hippies still begrudge them the money (besides the fact that they lose it instead of making moar).

Someone is definitly butthurt here!

You know what? If you don't like the feature then don't use it. The thing is this feature doesn't change whether CCP is more greedy or not because its an optional one.

You know, I think this is actually a very encouraging thing to see. It's essentially microtransactions done right. Maybe they've learned something?

Yes, on the face of it, it looks like something that will end up costing them making them less money than before, since it short-circuits a number of income sources. But what it does do is scratch that itch that makes MT work: it lowers the bar for usage and makes things massively more convenient. It used to be a bit of a faff getting a special-purpose alt going, what with the new account creation and character juggling, which created friction that kept people from doing it… now, it's so trivial that no-one will even think twice. Just throw a PLEX at it and go ahead. There's no reason not to, so everyone will do it all the time and twice on Sundays. This translates into more money for CCP.

Sure, it's a bit of a bet on player behaviour, but I think it's a solid one that will undoubtedly pay off. And yes, this means they're back on the MT wagon, but this trial balloon shows that they're thinking about it right this time.

Did you not consider that someone with two accounts may want to have a carrier on one account and add cyno alts to the other account. And, with this new mechanic, doesn't have to sacrifice training time to do so? I think it's a bit silly to call CCP money hungry because they're obviously one the most caring companies about their products in business right now. Come on

Fixed your OP for you, HTH.

After reading this thread I asked someone in game about it. I was a little confused, sounds like you use a plex to train an alt on one account and runs out the same time the plex would run out on another account, it sounds like a total wash to me....

...then the wheels started turning, I could make a market or indy alt and train just enough to get them going and then I could have both toons on the same account and only pay for one account, whereas the old way you would have to continue to pay for both accounts in order to use them. Nice!

Then I thought seems kinda worthless for cyno alts, even after learning you can transfer them to a second account, its still a wash for cap pilots.

That is precisely what it can do for you. OP doesn't seem to be about get his wheels turning though.

I think it's a fairy good idea but i have issues with the fact that you pay £9.99 a month to play 1 account, or you can of course pay via PLEX but a PLEX costs around £16? so wheres the logic in pricing PLEX at £16 when its only worth £9.99 to sub the game?

It's a good idea, as the community has been asking for this for as long as I can remember.

The sad part is that you can't play both toons at once .