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Uh where does it say we need money. It says "a commodity for trade on the open market".

So from what i understand, everything needed to do this will be available through the market, provided people sell it. Or through AUR/Plex from the market.

So as long as people continue to inject Plex, its fair game. If people stop selling Plex, then i see the issue.

then this
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/05/world-of-darkness-the-inside-story-mmo-ccp-white-wolf

Microtransactions and 'monocle-gate'

The development difficulties were only part of the Incarna problem. According to sources, CCP management had decided to introduce microtransactions, unbeknownst to most of the rank and file, charging real money for cosmetic items with which to customise character avatars. This is a familiar feature in online games, but usually a new outfit for a player character will cost $15-20. CCP decided to charge much more. The most notorious example was a monocle costing $70. The price tag infuriated fans kick-starting a major pricing controversy that would go on to become known as Monocle-gate.

The CEO had members of the fiction writing team put the apology together - he was either so out of touch, so arrogant, that he couldn’t find the words himself

The management response was elusive. In June 2011, senior producer Arnar Gylfason delivered an ambiguous statement, comparing the pixelated monocles to $1000 jeans and questioning whether people should buy clothes in real life at all. Eve subscriptions declined sharply and precipitously, and there were actual in-game riots in protest.

Eventually CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson issued an apology to the players. But even this short appeasement wasn’t what it seemed; according to Blood, Petursson didn’t actually write it.

“He had members of our storyline team – a group responsible for writing in-game content and fiction – put it together,” he says. “He was either so out of touch, so arrogant, or perhaps both, that he couldn’t find the words to say himself. They bailed him out big time.”

People still haven't gotten tired of the same thing from like page .... 2 of the earlier thread.

RehashingV, I know what I need to train to get ahead on these forums.

It's pointless to start on that again, better to make a bunch of arguments about the aur cost by now

Hasn't been explicitly declared, but I don't see why not. Once claimed from the redeeming window, the extractors are an item just like PLEX is.

Yes, the lowsec-highsec gate camping care bears... they were so non-risk adverse in the past ganking people on the gate.

Let's see. One year of training for a respec'ed character with +5 implants is 24 mil SP. Approximately.

The first 5 mil costs 10 injectors. The next 19 mil costs 47 injectors (to get to 18.8, which I'll say is close enough.)

So 57 injectors.

If you shop around, you can probably get a decent character with 24 mil SP off the character Bazaar for 17 bil ISK. I got one with 21 mil SP for 14 b last Sunday. (But this character also had level 6+ standings with Caldari and Amar factions, so I was willing to pay a bit more to get that also.)


Do you think 57 injectors will be anywhere near that ballpark?

You must be trolling ...

I don't think the Devs are going to release the price until the launch as if we know the price, it would cause a minor dip in the economy as people buy PLEX in mass.

Not to mention people would either complain its to expensive for the amount of SP given, or to cheap. Regardless of the price there will be people complaining, and people happy.

Best they can do is leave it a mystery until launch so people can't prepare, and thus lessen the launch day influx, and delay the cries of the people who are dissatisfied with the price until its already out.

Wise? Yes and no.
Common Tactic by companies? Yes.