EVE General Discussion

There is going to be a secondary market where people buy them with AUR and sell them for isk in the game too.

While I disagree with you and believe that they should be tied to the ship they were applied to, that would make some pod kills all the more juicier

I only disagree with that idea because people in high sec would rarely lose their skin license.

Too expensive. Variety is lacking, the vanity benefit of most skins is marginal, plus if you factor that in most fights you are zoomed out, well... not much cosmetic value in any form.

I think CCP is trying to fit a business model in a game that was never designed with such an end in mind.

Someone made a very good point, in LOL you don't just pay for different colours for your hero (like we do in EVE), you pay for animations and other things that make your hero different and with a certain thematic. I don't see how you can do that in EVE beyond changing colours to ships and planting some Quafe text on it... it's meh and paying 15$ for a meh is bad.

This is another failed attempt to be honest.

If I were CCP I'd drop the price severely (if they want players to use them, 2-5$ seems good price) and spend time on better things.

Drop the price, a 1 bil tag on something you eventually get bored of is bad. Sell them cheap and make many varieties. I'll be very bored of the Quafe skin once I see the new alien skin or other stuff. But if you charge 1 bil for each I think your clientele that would spend 10-20 bil to have a few of their ships pimped is so small it's a waste of dev time. CCP does not have 10 mil players... they better stick to the business model that works for them with 500k subs.

How superficial of you.

Your personality is determined by your shoes and your backstory by your jacket.

F'shaw

GTFO you troll

Being able to afford something or not doesn't make something less expensive... A weapon or hat or whatever in TF2 costs 2 to 5 bucks. Boosters and stuff in Planetside 2 also, just a few bucks. A cosmetic item in EVE costs 15 bucks. It makes no sense.

Paying 2bil for a red and black Astero skin :D also if CCP ever come up with this http://dogfacedesign.com/var/albums/Wallpapers/wallpaper-hello-kitty-apoc.png?m=1380048995 I will pay 20bil

That argument isn't necessarily relevant to the fact that the skins become prohibitive to use compared to their unskinned counterparts, thus relegating them to hangar queens for any application that might see regular loss. That makes a poor system that incurs the same issue with people having all the skins, they only use them where they won't lose them and things still saturate. The reduced usage also likely translates to reduced demand, making that saturation point come sooner.

Also clothing functions much the same way regarding destructibility. When applied it becomes indestructible, which, due to being able to be removed and sold makes them theoretically worse. Cosmetic NES items as a whole played by different rules in both being obtained and used prior to skins. I just don't see how this is different in a bad way from what we already have.

1) You can buy them with isk if you dont mind paying the markup that someone broke out the CC to get the aurum wants to add

2) people are complaining about 30 dollar skins, those only exist on the supercapitals. My Hel + Fit = 30B, at normal plex rates this is 690 Dollars. an extra 30 on top isn't going to break the bank. This is even more true for titan pilots

3) All skins for the same class should cost the same. My black Hel skin will cost me 35 dollars, where the black aeon skin cost 20 dollars.

4) I do think that because of point 2 there probably should be a hard cap of like 1950 AUR on BC and smaller, that puts you at 10 dollars, BS maybe 15. If we want to do pirate skins probably more due to that they cost piles more in game then a standard, or even t2 variants of most things.

5) Note this argument is coming from someone with a Looking Glass, take my ability to spend both ingame, and real money on this game how you will. Full disclosure, the looking glass was bought four months ago for 6.5 billion isk while drunk. with isk I got from plex, about 150 dollars. Being single with no dependents and a roommate is awesome

6) Also, Golden pod. This one was ratting money though.

My character date is jan 27 2008 and im just now inserting gallente titan and minmatar titan. Granted this character can fly them competently sp wise (I have no idea what im doing in non caps other then a purifier) So I am going to go with 87 Plex

To get all current skins takes 332125 AUR, Biggest package you can get is 21200 aur for 100 dollars. you need to do that 15.66 times. so 1500 dollars in that bundle, one 50 dollar package for 10600 points and 1 20 dollar package to give you 4035 points

so get all skins = 1570 dollars
have a character that can fly all ships well = 1735 dollars

CCP just make too mush error with the SKIN.

I don't ask for personal customisation, that imposible today.
I don't cry because i have to pay the SKIN, they work for it, i can understand they want be payed and/or need money for future.


But, Premium Money Suck ... 10€ = 1950 Aurum, and if i want something like a Maller Kador (or something else at same price) i need 5 More Aurum, just "5" , that mean around 0.027 €.

Even if every active Player on EvE buy this skin, around 40.000 people they will have 1080€, for me, alone, 1080€ can be interesting, for CCP ? i think that can be what one of them have each month for working (more than this i hope)

What i mean is, that obvius those 5 more Aurum on the price are there to make us buy more Aurum, more fuckin usless premium Money.

Let us pay with Real money, like on DotA, because each lost Aurum who wait alone are like lost money for player, that just a coward way to make us pay more than we want, whay ? CCP need money tu survive, but did they need those 1080€or they will die without them ? i don't think so.

And one more thing, i am ok to pay those price, but not for one ship, because even if the work isn't the same for Avatar Kador and Punisher Kador, i see no real reason to pay 50€for this Skin on an Avatar and around 10 for the frigate, no sens at all.


Stop thining EvE player are Money Milk's Cow !!

I am ok to pay, but not with Premium Money, and not if you think i am dumb enought to run in your Trap.
Take people for Dumbass is the best way to lost player and money, i don't ask Skin for free, just with respect ine the method and the price.