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Don't let up on this. "vanity" itself is a very dodgy and entirely subjective concept. One man's vanity is another man's content and once you start imposing artificial dividers between grades of content you open a pandoras box that ruins the integrity of the sandbox. We pay a sub, we get eve online. Thats about as complicated as it needs to get. Screw NeX and microtransactions and the horse they rode in on to be honest!

And the people in this thread still arguing that CCP need extra income do need to realize that things have changed in a pretty serious way this year.

Allow me to explain with a friendly illustration!

CCP Games is a successful Professional father. He manages to pay the bills, and invest in the future of his only daughter "Eve". Eve is bright and original, lovely to talk to and manages to impress everyone as she's growing up with her quirky independence and feisty joie de vivre.

Then a few years ago CCP Games met a mascara-wearing floozy with fake breasts and a penchant for dressing up her twin Chihuahua muts in mink waistcoats. The name of the floozy was "World of Darkness" and almost immediately she started spending CCP's money. Hard working successful CCP soon found itself pressed for cash as World of Darkness wined and dined a succession of long-haired poetic emo types and slept late after drinking all his wine and eating his larder bare.

Then even worse! World of Darkness brought her unlovable adolescent son (from her first failed marrage) Dust 514 into the house. Playing loud industrial house music and snorting crystal meth at all hours of the night Dust repeatedly broke all the furniture and invited thieves and pimps to squat on the living room floor and set up their MT/NEX rackets in the front garden (because "everyone else is doing it!")

Between them World and Darkness and Dust came close to bankrupting poor old CCP Dad, and while the goth harlot tapped his bank account for investments into the experimental "work" of internationally-reknowned fashion artistes "monocle and $1000 jeans", the horrible teenage stepson was trying to corrupt poor little Eve into turning MT tricks on the street corner for small change to fund his meth habit (because "daddy needs your help with the bills")

Those players who believe encouraging this situation is the right approach (by finding excuses for MT) are simply abusing poor Eve and betraying the hard working professional dad while overlooking the real cause of the crisis (an appalling girlfriend and her nasty teenage son).

So what happened this autumn is that some of CCP Dad's friends (the good player base) came round and talked things over (some with baseball bats). CCP woke up to the reality of the situation and threw World of Darkness out on her skanky backside and hurled her suitcases out on the street. Dust 514 promised to clean up his act and is now on best behavior and Eve can finally come out of her room again without being paraded in cheap tarty underwear for the MT meth addicts to ogle at. CCP dad tearfully apologies to Eve and promises never to get into bed with noxious slappers again in the future.

So.

The morale of this story is that the biggest challenge to CCP "Dad's" income was resolved when the slutty-sleeparound World of Darkness got booted out on the street. There is no longer any need to have Eve turn MT tricks to pay the rent. Sure Dust 514 is still living with us but he turns 16 next summer and will then need to get his own job and place and sink and swim on his own.

Eve will keep growing and everyone is happy.

The end.

(we don't need microtransactions in Eve.)

I think CCP needs to seriously rethink "microtransactions" . Vanity items would be fine as would some WiS items if that ever comes to be. But the pricing needs to be retooled completely 65 bucks for a fancy pixel eye patch is insane. But we shouldn't have to keep repeating this topic over and over the actions of this past summer should speak for it's self

Absolutely no MTs. Eliminate Nex and Aurum and allow these items to be produced by players. this Summer and the exodus that occurred should have sent that message. CCP can't keep ignoring the player base if they want EVE and Dust to succeed.

**** no to microtransactions. Lots of people despise them as the devil (including myself) and I have a feeling that a lot of eve-players feel the same way. This is a sandbox MMO not world of tanks, if I had wanted microtransactions I would play another game. The player economy is what's awesome with eve and CCP should focus on making it more awesome instead of trying to compete with world of tanks and similar.

Implement painjobs and such not as RMT but as more gameplay for the sandbox! More content = better sandbox = more players!