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[Crucifire]

I suppose that's true.

[Shal Novastorm]

Yea works for me realism wise, when you're going to a party you put your nice shirt and pants on, when you're going to blast people in the face you toss on comfortable combat gear.

[Z.Sinraali]

Yea works for me realism wise, when you're going to a party you put your nice shirt and pants on, when you're going to blast people in the face you get naked and put on warpaint.

FTFY.

[GoGo Yubari]

Everybody who didn't know this was coming, wasn't paying attention.

I'm pretty ambivalent about it. The idea of real money for goods doesn't really disturb me, but you can look at my general discontent about the Incarna expansion and the design going into it in that other thread about it.

[Shal Novastorm]

Yea works for me realism wise, when you're going to a party you put your nice shirt and pants on, when you're going to blast people in the face you get naked and put on warpaint.

FTFY.

That...is also acceptable!

[Ciarente]

I'm on the whole pretty positive about this. Unlike other MMORPG stores, the items don't affect game-play. They can still be bought IG for IG currency, or at the store for IG currency converted to plex converted to aurum. Yes, those willing/ able to spend large amounts of RL currency to buy plex will be able to have more stuff than those who don't, but that situation currently exists at the moment (buy a titan alt! buy a titan!)

I think the pricing of items will affect how well it works in practice.

[Hamish Grayson]

Even a capsuleers clothes are more valuable than most planets annual GPD.

[Kasuko]

I am completely fine with microtransactions for cosmetics. If they start microtransactions for things that actually affect in-space gameplay there will be mouth-foaming rage, though/

[Kyoko Sakoda]

Even a capsuleers clothes are more valuable than most planets annual GDP.

While this may be true, it probably deserves a thread of its own just for brainstorming. One wonders how expensive a designer blouse can get, for instance.

[Ember Vykos]

I am completely fine with microtransactions for cosmetics. If they start microtransactions for things that actually affect in-space gameplay there will be mouth-foaming rage, though/

Totally agreed. I am really looking forward to this though. btw if they give is swimsuits who's game for a swimsuit calendar? 

[Shal Novastorm]

I can see a lot of the wealthier players 'flipping' cosmetics for us RPers and such, buy up a bunch with Plex, then sell them off for a 'reasonable' price, I have a feeling even if you never want to touch Plex (or at least don't want to break the ones you have) the market will have a good amount.

[Lyn Farel]

We're going to start selling vanity items for a new currency called Aurum (which is created from PLEX). We hope you enjoy it but, if you don't, you're in no way forced to take part in it. This will launch within the next couple of months.

Fucking hypocrites.

Nope. This has been coming for a while.

I perfectly knew it was coming and have already been voicing against it here and there. Not everyone does that, to begin with, it is just the actual fashionable thing for video games editors with microstransactions and DLC, and all the like. I can't stand that. Even if it is just for cosmetic purposes. Question of ethics for me. You do not develop only for a part of your players. If you don't want to play in a battleship for example, sure, you are not forced to to it. But if you want, you do not have to use microstransactions though. It is the same thing for me here. If I want to use a pair of clothes, I pay for it in isk or whatever is the ingame currency, but not with a currency tied to any microtransaction related to RL stuff. In my opinion it is utter bullshit. Second life, anyone ?

[Kaldor Mintat]

Again: just use the free customization before you go to a party or a meeting, then change back. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that your flight clothes and your social clothes will differ.

I am gone forget doing this....i just know it....

Considering i have several times gone on fleetroams, forgetting to switch out of the +5 carebear clone and once even been podded while in that clone.....

[Ciarente]

I think it would make more sense if you lost your clothes when you lost your ship, even if you saved your pod ... but probably difficult to implement?

[GoGo Yubari]

There's something a bit strange in the arguments that people don't want micro-transactions for in-game benefit. While I most certainly agree that I don't want some uber t4 missiles to be available for real money, but to some extent this has already been possible. The introduction of PLEX has made it possible to buy real advantage in-game with real money. Yet that has not caused a shitstorm of epic proportions.