EVE General Discussion

Thanks, Italy.

Seeing as you're quitting and all, why are you still on the forums?

For someone who doesn't like, has grown tired of or is otherwise dissatisfied with the game you sure do spend an obsessive amount of time on the forums. It's almost as though you do like the game, and your outspoken plans to unsub are just a bluff.

Hi, my name is Kopfy and... I'm a PLEX user.
I use to pay the subscription the usual way but I all of a sudden got a lot of free time and a hunger for new computer components and of course my economy is limited in the student kind of way. But now i probably pay half my game time with PLEX and the other half the other way.
If they were to kill PLEX I'd continue to pay and have to cut down on my component addiction.

Hell, in the US you can be charged with a felony for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I knew someone who went down for hate crimes when it should have been a minor assault charge.

He smashed a rocks glass over someones head because the dude grabbed him from behind in a bar. Didn't know the dude was black til AFTER he did the smashing. Pretty much forced this dude into a life of crime.

Not all felonies, even justified charges(the dude had been raised as a neo-person who likes swastikas, by this point had grown up, so there was fair grounds for the assumption) are actually deserved. I would call defending yourself from someone grabbing you from behind a small mistake, wouldn't you?

Wouldn't make any difference, so yes.

I probably would still play regardless of PLEX... PLEX is pretty nice though. I would miss the option...


That's brutal. South or North?

Best place to be in Italy imho...

Maybe it just hasn't occurred to you that there are a significant number of people that have to make a little in order for a small amount of people to make a lot. In any country, every person that is a high earner, is doing so at the expense of 100s or even 1000s of people that are now low earners. For mid-earners, they operate in the range of 3-7 people earning less, so they can earn more.

There is only so much money in the world, and the way it is handled and dispersed to the population is in a fashion that suits the ones controlling it.

Take for example a product that sells for 15$ on the shelf at a local convenience store. 1200 people work in factories and fields to produce that product for resale, and a small handfull of people profit from its actual sale.

Say the CEO makes 400K a year, and each of his upper staff and directors make 100K plus a year, which accounts for a total of 14 employees, and a bunch of mid-level staff make 50-80K per year, (we'll say 100), so now we've got gross revenues paying for 114 staff out of 1200 with available revenues for payroll on a product that will never really retail for more than 15$ on store shelves.

So now we've got a bunch of minor employees, (who in fact do most of the work), earning 20-30K per year out of the remaining revenues for payroll.

That's 1086 people earning in the 20-30K mark producing, packaging, and distributing a product for resale that retails at around $15, (their average earnings per hour or more), 100 people earning 50-80K for watching over them and handling sales and marketing, 13 people making 100K a year for making corporate decisions and talking to people, and 1 guy making 400K a year for essentially doing nothing.

The rest of the world works the same way. 1 person on top, a few people under him/her, and some more people beyong that who are well to do, and the rest just work and get by.

But in any developed nation, less than $15/hr. is sodding poor income. In some other countries, it may be a lot and hard to come by, and those countries may see greater differences between rich and poor than others, but in most countries, that or more is fairly standard. And yet, is it really a measure of income when its buying power changes depending on where you are.

Akirei isn't really wrong, so much as you are poorly understanding of his/her perspective. Incidently, I earn $15/hr. 36 years old, working in the Electrical trades as an apprentice. I've never earned more, and more often earned less.

Never didn't pay to play, haven't used Plex.

Tal

No. Eve isn't worth real money.