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It's priced perfectly, from a business cash grab (let's use the forum vernacular) point of view: just under the "screw this crap" affordability point.

They missed the mark with the SKINs; hopefully they'll compare the sales numbers from this vs. from SKINs and adjust the SKINs (downward, and a lot). Clothing / outfits, too.

Can someone (preferably who tested it on test server) clarify one thing: Assume I have 79KK trained SP. I consume 3 injectors, which gives me about 1kk free SP (300k per item). I don't allocate free SP, still having 79kk SP trained and about 1kk free.

So, the question is very simple - how much would I get from the 4th injector? 300 (as I have 79kk SP trained) or 150 (as I have 79+1 total SP)?

The y could name the next developer to join CCP Truffle....and just not tell them why :D

actually you can mythbusters proved turds can be polished much like this pile of crap system :P

First, please use mil or mio instead of kk, because a thousand thousands is a million.

Second, currently, on the test server, unallocated points don't count towards the limit (80 million), but a CCP dev has said they are fixing that by Tuesday as it's not intended.

If you have 79.000 million and add 3 injectors of 300k each, that's 79.900 million, so you're still under the limit for the fourth. Now, it would make sense that the fourth injector checks what you HAVE and gives you 300k because you're under the limit, but I don't know what CCP is actually doing.

It's only a 2 day wait, just wait for it, and then ask again, give people a chance to see what CCP actually implements on the live servers. It's not set in stone until then.

Unallocated SP curently counts on the test server. Tested today. If you have 79 trained and 1 unallocated, it is counts as 80 total, leaving you with only 150k per injector.

The only SP range where AUR-bought SPs can compete (by price) with character bazaar is 0-5m SP character range.

No, you can't.

Well, the concept of "less is more" seems to be uncomprehensible to CCP at this point. Gate prices rarely work well. 3.5 extractors per 1 plex (or 0.9 per 5$ for those prefering direct cash approach) is exactly that, and it's positioned at the extreme end of desperation (of both players' and CCP's). It's not even enough to extract what 1 character can farm in 1 plex of subscription time.

Thank goodness the person that "designed" this pricing wasn't responsible for bazaar (or if that's not the case, said person had more sanity back then). Otherwise 20 plexes transfer fee for 35m sp character would be the standard today (mapping this pricing directly onto bazaar).

Perhaps they should hire some people from Steam/GoG instead of EA.

I really hope CCP notices all the outrage about the pricing and fixes it before release or there will be trouble down the road. These prices hurt everyone. They hurt buyers who have to foot the bill, sellers who won't be able to get a decent price for their SP due to lack of demand, CCP who won't sell nearly as many extractors, and the people who say the mechanic shouldn't exist because it still will.
If these prices don't change I predict an initial surge of people trying to sell useless SP and others buying it. But it won't take long for the buyers to run low and force the price down till the SP itself is only valued at 15-25% of what it cost to train. That will screw over the sellers, which will obviously make them unhappy, while still keeping the total price far above what the SP costs to train, significantly limiting buyers and making them unhappy too.
Even worse, once the extractors have been launched with a certain price it can't really be lowered without offending everyone who bought any up to that point.

I propose changing the pricing to 120 individually, 450 for 4, 900 for 9, and 3500 for 35 or 36. That would eliminate most of the rage over the price as well as the rage over the "hotdog bun" mismatch. It would allow buyers to pay a reasonable price for injectors while sellers get a reasonable value for their SP and CCP get more revenue after the initial surge because people would actually continue to use the feature. It would also help keep players happy because they won't be seeing a 50-75% tax every time they look at injector prices. The only losers in that situation are the people who don't want the feature to exist.


TL;DR: CCP please reconsider the pricing and change it to about 100 per extractor in packages that align with Aurum packages. And please do it before launch lest people get screwed over and hate you.