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Being Minmatar, sadly I won't buy any of the Minmatar skins. I was really looking forward for some cool Minmatar skins and truth is I got a major disappointment.

I find MInmatar SKINs not worth spending the ISK/AUR. No stripes like some Caldari ones, no different colors like some Gallente ones. Nefantar and Krusual skins just look as a slightly polished version of the regular ones. They just look the same to me and most of the times because of light in space, you won't even realize the ship has a different skin.

I would find interesting to know what percentage of the skins sold are Minmatar. I bet it will be a small amount compared to other races.

Definitively, I don't find any Minmatar skin that makes me think my ship will look different at all as others definitively do. And the "rust and dust" aesthetic argument doesn't feel valid at all, to be honest, when we are talking about optional skins.

If you make MInmatar skins that are worth buying I'll be the first one to get them.

Ya know, at first, I will agree with you... the pricing scheme seemed off, but the more I thought about it I realized that it is probably tied to the complexity of the artwork these guys are doing. I could be wrong, but from my experiencer the small ships probably takes the same as it does for some of the big ships, etc and vice versa so it is hard to judge it in that regard.

i.e. you just can't simply look at the price and complain/judge. my .02 ISK

With that said too, my comment was more directed at the system they came up with. The prices do seem a bit high, but unlike most of the posters complaining here, I am not worried about that. CCP is going to see what sells and what doesn't. If they get their arse handed to them because people are not buying skins at $30 + a skin, they are going to have to reduce it and realize that IS the price point that item is worth to their subscribers. FACT.

They can chose NOT to reduce it, but then nothing will sell and thus the idea of micro-transactions will suck for them.

Free market economics and the will of the consumer will determine the price ultimately so don't get too worried. They are probably just playing with the prices to start.

Me personally, I don't mind paying for artwork both in game and in RL but I too agree I will not pay for something overpriced too. :)

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Post- I also too forgot to mention and have not seen mentioned here, how FRICKEN cool the spinning GL ship thing is on the website. I immediately tried to spin the ship and was really impressed with it! Kudo's to the programmers on that! It is like playing EVE out of EVE. Now I can show off the ships to my friends out of game. Thanks.

Anything that allows CCP to be more financially sound by tapping into the perceived needs of people with "surplus" money, I'm all in favor.

May many people spend freely.

The market vitality will be preserved by the ISK:plex:AUR exchange rate, along with attrition - characters going inactive, and potential playerbase growth this coming Summer.

With apparel, it is much more different due to the second hand issue.

I thought it was understood this is where SKINs were headed.

While I am relieved to see the positive feedback on this iteration of microtransactions CCP's attempted, I cannot help but by reminded that the vocal minority managed to browbeat CCP down from Incarna content because they bitched and complained over apparel and other microtransaction stuff back in 2011. Oh noes, two or three content releases of Incarna content, woe is us and our poor little spaceship game!

Hypocritical jagoffs. This is why subscriber count is going down, between the toxic community and the fact the game isn't in-line with the current MMO market. Only one of those things can be fixed without drinking copious amounts of bleach.

The subscriber count is going down because there is no great content in the game, which is both the fault of the players and CCP. Instead of providing new and exciting activities, CCP rather opts, in line with the current MMO market, for cheap and useless items for which people have to pay even more money in addition to the subscription. As stated before, I already pay hundreds of Euro per year to keep my accounts subscribed. In order to get access to these skins, I would have to pay another subscriptions' worth of money to them. This is ridiculous. And before you make yourself look bad by saying "Buy it on the market for ISK": These items don't show up there out of thin air and someone else had to pay a subscription's worth of money to buy them. I gladly give you more reasons to biomass as long as keep your toxic support for this garbage to yourself.

On that note, I'd be intrigued to learn how much money CCP makes from sales in the NES/NEX. I had a look at the 2013/2014 financial statement and couldn't really find numbers on this.

Would you have read the article you link to, you would know it's about "selling non-vanity items for cash" not "high prices for vanity stuff".
I'm really surprised that there are so many people not understanding or remembering what the jita riots and incarna gate were about.

Prices for vanity items are totaly fine. I miss some progression up the ships sizes but it's still fine for me. Also it's a permanent skin now.

where is my pink kestral?

As i have stated before, I agree, this may well just be coincidence. But surely, someone from Internal Affairs or Security can do an investigation just to be on the safe side...

Ultimately, no one gets hurt if it is genuine speculation, but if it isn't, wouldn't you want to know that someone is commiting foul play?