Market Discussions

I thought I pretty much headed off that objection you're trying to make... and i'm not sure if your'e being facetious or not.

Watching TV costs me time Playing Eve... is that what you are saying? OK fine I guess I have an alternative cost of not having fun y and z ways if i elect to have fun x way.

But, if I have decided to have fun a certain way. If i've decided to watch TV for instance, and someone decides to send me a check for 25 cents every our I watch even though i would have watched tv anyway, it hasn't cost me anymore to get that check.

I played eve with the goal of making piles of isk... and that really isn't so incredibly rare... I'd guess 1 in 10 to one in 20 players are pretty committed to that and many others building assets because they like to own production chains with no real ulterior motive to use them for combat. Certainly I'd agree taht over 50% of the players make isk to use it for combat ships...but we'd have to guess whole new ratios if we were only looking at percetnages of the group of peole who use isk to get game time.

The bottom line is, lots of people who use isk to play make the isk because they enjoy making isk as a goal in itself.

If you would do the activity regardless there is no incremental cost to you to play... no incremental cost means play for free.

HOLY CRAP 500M THE END IS NIGH! WHAT YOU GONNA DO NOW CCP? NO ONE WANTS TO PAY CASH FOR THIS GAME!

in that case you realize it won't end until at least when the expansion is on TQ ? or maybe 1-2 months after...
if this last 3 months, it won't be good...

Just hit 500 million in Jita
Edit: Too slow...

Now's a great time to bust out your credit card.

If I could sell them to CCP for 5$ a piece (or sell to other's with their blesiing for the same rate) I be buying at 1 billion and turning around and passing them over. Less scrupulous people have been getting above that rate (from what I read 6 months ago it might have been 15$ per billion wholesale and $30 per billion retail, which I imagine has fallen dramtically though)

I'm pretty sure that various aspects of the RMT , from the most casual informal ratios of trading isk for out of game help in other games or a bit of help with a web site, to the truly commercial hopes of people in developoing countries glad to get an extra 5 to 10$ a day to feed their families where few other opportunties are availbable to them (yet from what other real work they have, have the need to have already paid for a computer and internet connection).


I think people are correct in their comments about the price of plex and over all availabilty of isk in the economy being tied to increased ease in earning isk.

In m y opinion, game designers need to build in at least some year over year increase in player's ablity to earn game currency and a system that gradually introduces more powerful weapons that of course required a higher level of game currency. Gamers, by human nature largely, want to feel like there is some prrogression in their wealth and chracter power, even if they really aren't gaining ground in relative terms. People buy fantasy in the games and put asside from the get go certain habilts of over thinking things in order to climb aboard the journey.

On top of that gradual increase in isk/player due to the "arms race" , over time SOME players will gain experience with game mechanics to get more and more efficient in harvesting game assets per hour of play.

In a game that allows multi clienting the difference in game currency earnings from the super power player maximizing skills and focus and doing so with mutiple clients is going to particularly outstrip earnings of a more casual player whom the company relies on for the bulk of their real $ revenue.

The game needs to be desinged to let a moderately able gamer having a beer or two and chatting a bit with friends to earn 30 million isk per hour at the less than peak earning locales that are broadly distributed across the universe. If they accomodat that, the way the game scales , someone who's particularly adept with key strokes, has researched the highest income areas, focuses keenly on those, plays the "farming" part of the game with a focused intensity for hours , and uses mutiple clients (and more so with bots) is going to earn 300 million isk per hour perhaps...and if that comes out to a couple real $ per hour there will be lots of people in the world ready to take that isk and there will also be lots of people in developed countries who earned bundles for the fun of it and at the end of their interest cycle in the game (we all almost always move on from any game we play) would be happy to get a few hundred dollars no matter how long it took them to amass.

Guess it's time for me to load up my 50 PLEXes and fly them over to Jita....I could use a BS shield tank, but I think I'll use my unequiped, paper-thin shuttle.....whats the worst that could happen?

Hmmm, guessing you're not familiar with sarcasm....

LOL WUT

Confirming I am stop playing until this madness end.
I go playing some non Blizzard stuff.