EVE General Discussion

From the patchnotes for 2017-05-09: https://community.eveonline.com/news/patch-notes/patch-notes-for-119.5-release/

Is this going to be a temporary thing, CCP, or will this be permanent? This is no small game-changer for people using the Character Bazaar.

Well, his question was basically: "Is this a temporary or permanent change?".

So I'm going to have to suggest that, no, you haven't answered it :patronising-smiley-here:

Seeing as this is such an enormous change that has come straight out of the blue with little warning when people have multiple accounts training up to sell their characters on, some of which for many months, would it not be worth keeping the current PLEX in game too costing 500 nuPLEX to allow character transfers?

At least until this issue is fixed - many people rely on PLEX to exchange trained characters as they cannot afford real money transfer fees.

THEY BROKE IT MESSING WITH THINGS NONE OF THEM TRULY UNDERSTAND


surely ccp your time would be best served fixing the broken citadel mechanics than trying to change more of the minor things about eve.but i guess if its more important to you to change some thing that has worked perfectly all these years then you go waste your time on it.
....was this one of fozzies ideas..


had to ask!!

lol

Nobody asked for this.

Can't really say I blame them. Look at how unreasonable people usually are around here. They probably figured people are gonna ***** no matter what they say or how well they try to explain what went wrong. Either that or they figured most of us are not making character transfers left, right, and center all that often enough for a few days notice to not be fair enough.

I've held off on replying until now because I didn't think I would be able to remain civil enough, but I believe I can do so now.

Honestly, this feels like another of the half-baked changes that get put out, with a promise of fixing it at some undetermined point in the future, but with said point being (frequently) literal years away.

Losing the ability to pay for character transfers with PLEX is a significant change. It may only affect a small subset of the EVE population, but for that subset, this is basically a "game-ending" change. I'm not trying to imply that I expect people to quit over this, but rather than it basically removes that form of gameplay from the game.

It is, admittedly, just a small subset of the population who use it, but over the last few years, it seems that these are the changes we've been receiving: small changes that have severe negative impacts on small subsets of the population, frequently ending or nearly ending that particular style of play. Each individual change may only affect a small number of people on its own, but collectively, these changes are adding up, and a larger portion of the playerbase is being affected.

I may not be an active user of the Character Bazaar, only ever using the transfer system to move characters around on my own accounts (which are pretty much how I want them now), but I'm looking at this in light of Martin Niemoller's "First they came for..." poem, and I'll add my voice to any call to reimplement this feature.

I'm going to urge you, CCP, to please make it a priority to get this functionality back into the game as soon as possible. It may only affect a small subset of players, but each time a change comes through that removes a small part of the game, the subset of players affected grows.

20 dollars is less than the price of 2 plex. CCP looses money off of this change. So it's safe to assume they will be fixing it ASAP

Except https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/69fjeq/plex_can_no_longer_be_used_for_character_transfer/dh6c5a7/?context=3

I already explained it there.
Paying cash for character transfers is going to be uncommon, and even it it is common - it means money into their wallet.
Plex is already in the economy, when you use it for a character transfer, you're simply removing the plex from the eve economy.