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I think this is one of the best things to come out of CCP in a long, long time.

I have a crappy old geforce 285, thats struggling to run all 4 clients at once.
I'm more than happy to pay 10bn worth of plexes for a new gfx.

If I can't get one of the first 100, tough luck.
In the end, 10bn isn't that much.

Even if they had charged 15-20 plexes instead. It wouldn't matter
That way, theres a higher chance for us who can afford it, to get free gfx.


It saves me money, that I'd rather spend on my family/kids



\Doc

It's still an upgrade from a 2 y/o card.
And again. Its free, since I dont pay to play - and yes. My gaming time IS free - since I mostly play from work.

videocards!!

Also will one be able specify shipping address and such later on, in case I want to buy it as a gift?

/c

+1 to CCP for this idea. I myself won't take advantage of it because I had a GTX 560 card but got rid of it ( consumed too much electricity and created too much heat ). I sold it for about $75 USD on Ebay if I recall correctly.

I would like to see the same deal on AMD 7000 series cards or NVidia Teslas.





This!!! 100x this!!! I would speculate that every hardcore Eve player would take advantage of this deal. Sony would love CCP and CCP would make a killer profit. DUST 514 accounts would explode overnight. PLEX prices would freakin' skyrocket though.

If CCP actually choose some decent hardware for deals like this i would be jumping in on the offer in heartbeat

These cards aren't even the GTX 560 TI models that have decent performence. So they proberly got a very good deal from a manufacturer (EVGA?) with these outdated gfx cards.

Should CCP choose to make a similar offer with a Geforce GTX 680 (within some months of the realse of the card) for plex worth around double the market price of the cards i would most likely grap it.

This is a really nice idea but instead of needing 20 plex could CCP give offers for less plex?

I'm thinking something like buying stuff from the eve store for say 2+ plex. Something like a hoodie for 2-3 plex, the beer mug for 1 plex etc. etc.

And the shipping costs for 1 plex ofcourse :)

Yea, But ccp gets to dip into the profits on this twice.
Once on the ETC purchase, and then once again on the video card profit.
Your getting about 150$ and it's costing you about 350$ (and you can expect to pay taxes in some places!).

Wonder what sort of trading laws the EU would apply to this, Buying of goods and services have distance regulations, so all sales are not final.

The people who will be pissed off by this are the people who pay for a lot of accounts with plex. CCP is trying to get 2,000 plexes to exit the game. That's a LOT of plexes. 2,000 players for a month.

Time codes are going from 500+ to 600+ today and probably if people do buy into this crackpot scheme... 700+ tomorrow.

There's a couple of other legit ways that players get money from ccp using their ingame isk, I think the payout is quite a lot better than this 42% return.

It might work to get some people to dump isk, I am not sure about it.
CCP have made it clear that the "sandbox" is closed and that everything in game is theirs to mutate as they wish, adding this layer of "trading" is deadly and when it gets abused then players will have no recourse.

CCP makes a lot of money from EvE, it's their product and as such they should be allowed to do so, but it plexes* me as to why they would try to sell the feathers from the goose that's laying the golden egg.

No, you need to do it indirectly.
Buy plex, reverse redeem, and hope tomorrow your one of the 100 that can apply (else you have 20 plexes that you probably overpaid for!)..

CCP do not (nor do users) want a direct isk->$$ scheme in place. Driving plex prices up will give incentive for players who would buy isk to do it using Plexes (thus driving real purchase demand). Isk exiting the game (only 10 trillion) would probably only strengthen the value of ISK and just provide a finacial loss to CCP.

I really wish some CCP employee could give some insight on these crucial questions:

What card is it exactly?
Where are the graphic cards being sent from?
If im (technically) not paying any real € for it, will it still be counted as its full price regarding taxation (that would mean about 30€ for germany sadly)?

And if you decide to go for this videocard you might wanna upgrade your power-supply as well to a minimum of 700W since your "standard" 450W power supply wont keep up wit this card