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I hope CCP don't introduce this new feature around the 10th of next month.

Then the (possibly) massive drop off in players online due to Fallout 4 will instead be used as a justification for the I-told-you-so people to party in the streets because they were so right. It takes a special kind of stupid to joyfully dance at the prospect of being right that the game they love is dying. But there you go. They will dance and they will be wrong.

But what will they say 100 hours of FO4 later when all those people start to get the EVE shakes and return to the game? How will they then explain why the numbers are climbing? They'll most certainly not have quit as many are threatening to do, so they'll be around to see the rebound.

Should be interesting to see the backpedaling then. Or the whole issue may be moot as they've all moved on to the next big thing that is causing that unstable sky to fall on them.

Mr Epeen

personally, i would rather see the continuation and improvement of buying/selling of SP than a hike in sub prices.

not to mention the increased cost in subscription fees, and subsequently plex prices, would allow illicit RMTers back in to the market who were previously priced out.

WOD, Dust, Gunjack, Valkyrie - who do you think pays for these developments? If you extract massive amounts of capital from the project that earns you this - what is going to happen if not enough is left to satisfy these customers or if you need more because you wastet these investments, canceling projects? Do a simple math what ccp has to pay for eve fanfest or vegas and think about what could have happend to this game if all this money and devtime had been used from the beginning to primarily develop eve instead?

Still wating on them to keep their promises from 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ0k0ioROUo

That´s a timeframe others develop complete and complex AAA games

By your calculations, there's also another advantage, if a newbie has 12 PLEX to spend, he would, and I know I would, rather burn up the 12 PLEX initially for a 30m injection, rather than spend 12 PLEX for a year's subscription, and only passive train about 23m SP, assuming 2700SP\hr, which also is impossible to achieve because of remaps and Cybernetics V.

Sure he misses the 12 months playtime, but he gets more SP, and gets instant delivery. All while only spending 12 PLEX.

BTW, I also hate the idea.

As opposed to now where that players buys a 30+M SP character on the bazaar with PLEX left over to add gametime or buy ships?

And if you hate the idea of buying SP, I'm sure I'll find posts in your history where you are railing at the idea that characters can be purchased already.

Mr Epeen

so, you don't actually have a reason then.

i'd have thought after like 3 days knees would have stopped jerking.

I'm not against the character bazaar and its function, because skills were already tailored by the original capsuleer and decisions were made by him. The new buyer has to accept those decisions, like neg stat, corp thief, crap name.

This idea negates all that history and is essentially paying for SP.

Character Bazaar is also paying for SP, but it comes at the price that it's not 1st hand.

The CB is not what you think it is.

There are people with 60-80 PO2 accts (I never go over twenty because I'm a lightweight) specifically training pilots for sale. Focused with no history, no reputation and in any flavor of skill combinations you like. No one will ever know it's a purchased character without actually digging in to the posting history.

Sure there is crap for sale. But it mostly stays for sale as there are much better options.

Mr Epeen

The biggest reason is, you get to self tailor yourself in the purest form in an instant, at no price other than PLEX.
Start a newbie, persevere to 5m, start injecting. Be perfectly combat capable at Mastery V in an hour.

Whereas, Bazaar characters are never the way you want them to, and when presented with one which satisfies your requirement, comes with baggage, 20 corp history listings, useless skills which I had no intention of using, like leadership and Wing command V, when I just wanna small gang in cruisers. That's the price we pay, imperfections, caveats for other desirables. And we made the choice to go on.

I was always impressed by the idea that you should think hard of the decisions you make, because it branches out to undesirable consequences. Like, training Mining to IV because as a noob you wanted to get that extra yield to make money.

Now, this idea makes it so those consequences disappear. Remember years ago when you made a bad decision on your toon which you hated? Poof, gone.

I can start a character and make him pure, without the baggage.
Not only that, I can make him pure in an instant.
Not only that, I also circumvented one of the biggest assets we all possessed, and that's training time, perseverance, patience and sticking to a plan.