EVE General Discussion

Maybe it's a bling-bling card... reminds me of expensive pants... :P

edit/also I'd be interested to buy two/three actually, even if it's more expensive than RL it's still free in terms of not paying with real money - so a cheap way to SLI...

Hope to see more info about purchasing soon.

I'd just wait till the offer is finally up. I could imagine them picking "some" higher price first, so they can lower it later on. Increasing the price might upset more people than a lowered price (that was deemed to high at first).

Edit: Also, don't expect a 1:1 conversion, they're not charity giving away 100% of the money they earned (by selling that PLEX earlier).

Graphics card for PLEX? What is this?

well...for the bigger alliances the 10bill isk price tag is nothing

"-as a token of our gratitude for loyalty and dedication we will give every officer who been with us for more then 3years a brand new graphic card"

to bad it was what, only 1000 for sale atm?

Maybe they will sign it or add some stuff that makes it unique but from what i can remember is that the 20 plex deal also includes shipping fees.

Mr Rourke... I have never mentioned who I actually work for.

I think I found your problem ;)

Seriously, CCP is not expecting people to go buy 20 PLEX with RL money. They fully expect people to use their ISK surplus to get the card.

It's a marketing move, both trying to tear down the PLEX/ISK <> RL money barrier in the minds of the players... and, see how real life governments are going to react to this ( customs, taxes, VAT etc. ).

If CCP can get players to buy PLEX to fund their in-game activities and then have other players with too much ISK on their hands buy the PLEX introduced in that way and use it on RL goods - CCP can in theory print money by being the middle-man with the RL Currency > PLEX > RL Currency platform.

If they can convert somones PLEX which he spend 300 USD on, and have those PLEX leave the system again but at a much higher value ( a 170 USD product traded for PLEX that someone payed 300 USD for ), they are in effect printing money since those 20 PLEX will be replaced in the economy ( supply & demand ).

The AUR hasn't taken off, CCP was too greedy and pidgeoin-holed themself into a certain price range. Now, they are looking into other avenues, since potentially, they might one day be forced to go F2P and they need to have their new income platform up and running before that.

Testing the waters and all that, but in a much more marketable way than the monocle.

to clear this out, i bought the PLEXes with ISK, but yeah pohbis you got the point i wnated this thread to go, basically ccp is acting like a trading company on this graphics card, having almost 100% margin, and thats a joke.

So i hope they will think about taking a card thats worth the 300$ and im fine :P

A joke? Well, peoples thoughts will differ on the subject.

It is only really shady when you look at it as a 1 to 1 transaction. However, unlike something as PayPal where the platform offers you nothing except a browser-based service and they make their profits through currency conversion and small fees, CCP are offering their middle-man service based on an entertainment platform that offers people value - entertainment value.

If CCP would just be 1 to 1 exchanging a 170 USD product for a 300 USD product between 2 people, yes, the margin would be extreme and there would be no value in using CCPs service, as opposed to just buying it on NewEgg.com However, they are not.

1 person is funding his entertainment with PLEX - and some other guy will fund the product with surplus ISK, which he got while playing a game as well. Being entertained.

Those 2 people never meet. The one buying the 20 PLEX doesn't care that someone had to pay 300 USD for them, and that he is only getting 170 USD value out of that. He didn't pay RL money, he payed with a currency earned while entertaining himself.

And the guy who bought the PLEX, well, he got to play serious internet spaceships without having to grind ISK to fund his activities. Both in essence win, and CCP provided the entertainment value that makes both players perceive it that way.

Unlike on PayPal, where doing this would have been a complete rip-off, unless you enjoy punching keys in a browser

its designed to be a win win win

ccp gets more plex sales, maybe even a cut of the $$
nivida gets card sales
players can spend isk on plex and buy real world items of value, if you have 20bil lyeing around in game you can now buy a new gfx card,

all this said, i think itshould be the 560 ti, not the 560 but i'm not gonna complain about it, they advertised the ti version at the alliance tourney before, so figured they would have used that one.