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In a very real sense, it is. I can pay real money for (items which come from literally nowhere that I can sell for) ISK.



We should give them one, and be done with this insulting Aurum business.



Couldn't be more wrong here. Real money should not equal ISK. Ever. Even if it's just paying a penny once a year to get 0.01 ISK (at which point, who really cares except for people with ethics who understand the principle of the thing?) Unless of course we want to compromise the integrity of this virtual world and make it into something that is basically a whole lot more like Second Life.

Aurum is insulting.

you cant really say it comes from nowhere. When you buy a PLEX with cash, it represents the service of Game Time from CCP. you can then choose to sell that service for Isk or Aurum. Nothing is being created from thin air... something of value is indeed being exchanged for something else of value. If you consider this pay to win, then nobody can help you. Game time has value in Isk and real money, and you have been able to use real money to make isk for a long time now.... Attaching aurum to this equation is not game breaking. You can use this system to turn your isk into aurum, just like you can turn it into plex.

There is nothing they are introducing, even the stuff for aurum only, that you cannot get by using your isk to turn it into your new shiney...

Now if you are going to get mad about some clothing popping into existence out of "thin air", then you also need to advocate the elimination of all NPC loot drops. let that one sink in for a moment. How far down that rabbit hole do you want to go? Remove all NPC agent rewards too? Their isk and rewards popped into existence out of nowhere. They didn't buy that stuff off the market. Where do you want to draw this line here?

Disagree all you like, it does not change that it takes potential content away from players.

This should be the ideal to shoot for, honestly. NPC rats spawning from oblivion has never made a lick of sense. It's a theme-park element inside the sandbox, and while it may have been a nice band-aid way back in the day before EVE had any real PvE content, it should never have been a long-term solution. I'd be ecstatic if CCP announced that they were doing away with missions entirely and were developing a way to allow the players themselves to manage EVE's economy (read: no more faucet/sink system.) We'd be a lot closer to a true sandbox, a true ultimate science fiction simulator if we managed to do that.

Yay! I can play Dress-Up Online again! =D

On the somewhat related topic of more tattoos, when are we getting those? We are getting them eventually, yes?

Please give him a way to give me all his aurum. I want to help my fellow capsuleers in need. I feel his pain, oh yes, I do!

Yup, for those that dont want to even see the Aurum, an option/tick box to remove it shouldn't be an issue, not gonna happen though.

Look at the rage over the new UI, literally thousands of post and no roll back, just incremental improvements back to what we had before ( if we are lucky) , CCP aint gonna take Aurum out, and the NEX store or whatever it's called is staying. and tbh as long as it is purely cosmetic who cares.

The important stuff is that it does not take away dev time from fixing the core issues that need to be addressed, if the money they make from it is ring fenced to fund more cosmetic stuff, fine. I suspect that when they finally arrive that corporation and alliance logo's on ships will cost you Aurum (unless someone has said otherwise - please feel free to correct me).

Overall I'm glad it's in the game, it adds texture and depth and there are a lot of people that like this stuff, the moment I see gold ammo or P2W game effecting mechanic I suspect it may finish of EVE for many of us.

I like the cosmetic stuff, too, honestly. It's great, and helps add to the depth and scope of the game. It increases immersion. However, the impact that it could have is nearly completely over-ridden by the fact that every time I see a monocle I cringe and feel that bitter-vet forming deep in my soul that I never really wanted to be there in the first place. Thank you, microtransactions, for ruining what could have been pretty great.

Tracking Enhancer monocle ? DPS Pants, or Super tank boots, then I might use Aurum, otherwise i'll just ignore it.