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USE PLEX TO BUY CCP STORE MERCHANDISE
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Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#21 - 2012-02-13 21:35:02 UTC
All the more reason for CCP to get off their ass's on the RMT and bots issue and actually do something about it to fix the problem.

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David Fightmaster
Temu Corporation
Kybernauts Clade
#22 - 2012-02-19 20:34:01 UTC
Yeah, there is a lot of ramifications if CCP did allow something like this to happen. I truly would like to see how it would affect the PLEX prices. Could only imagine it would go up, but by how much? It would be a show to see I supposeSmile. On people taking advantage over something like this with RMT, last thing I want is farmers making a profit off something like this that's only meant to help players get items for the game they like so much. Regrettably that's something that can't be really stoppedWhat?.

Thanks everyone for your comments, it was very insightful for me to see the responses from other players about this idea.
Ohanka
#23 - 2012-02-19 21:38:59 UTC
delete plex altogether.

Pay for the game properly dimwits.

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rodyas
Tie Fighters Inc
#24 - 2012-02-19 22:54:39 UTC
It would just be a wow clone though.

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Ganagati
Perkone
Caldari State
#25 - 2012-02-19 23:06:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Ganagati
Vertisce Soritenshi wrote:

Come to think of it...there may be some legal issues involved. Possible tax evasion issues and whatnot. Once you buy the PLEX you are then using face game money for real life goods. At least it could be viewed that way by some courts...


This is a much larger issue than you think and is the reason you'll never see this come to pass.

Go look up some of the nasty hubub involved around second life and government's attempts to tax the ingame currency. If you could convert in game currency to real life currency, governments would jump all over it and cause a world of hurt for CCP and EVE players.

Farm some iskies -> buy plex -> buy t-shirt -> sell t-shirt for real monies -> profit???

Suddenly isk has a real monetary value in both directions. Right now you can go from real money -> isk, but you can't legally go from isk -> real money. If you COULD, then wouldn't isk become a taxable income? It sounds silly, I know, but honest to god there were a group of legally savvy government workers who tried to make a similar claim against another game.

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Ammzi
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#26 - 2012-02-19 23:58:12 UTC
TL;DR - Let's bump plex up to 899 m isk a piece.
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