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[Invelious]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114353-Bigpoint-Makes-Big-Bucks-Off-1300-MMO-Item

[Graelyn]

The most pathetic among us will ruin every nice thing. 

[Mizhara]

Free to play is the future, boys. Let us all embrace it now!

[Seriphyn]

And I thought spending $250 on my artwork was a lot...

[Hamish Grayson]

That's 2.6M dollars...

[Mithfindel]

2M euros / 2.6M dollars in four days.

[Akrasjel Lanate]

 

[Invelious]

Basically their "Ed" in R&D was like, "can we pump out those drones to the players for sale?" And 1 hour later "Bob" the manager was like $$$

[Esna Pitoojee]

Cripes...

I honestly don't know how to respond to this.

[Ghost Hunter]

Cripes...

I honestly don't know how to respond to this.

[lallara zhuul]

Thats Pay-to-Win stuff, you do know the difference.

[Invelious]

Thats Pay-to-Win stuff, you do know the difference.

Fair enough, its still $1300, your not winning buy paying $1300 for pixels.

[lallara zhuul]

How much have you been paying for playing EVE?

[BloodBird]

How much have you been paying for playing EVE?

I've paid 100 norwegian crowns every month for the last 6 years atl, and that's only one account. I've 4 atm and have held 2 for at least 5 years. That's 7200 for one account, and 6000 for another, the last 2 have each existed for the last year at least, paid every month, that's 1200 per account, and all that's 15600 at the very least. Translate that into dollars or euro's if you want and then tell me how much 'cheaper' this pixelated item might be.

I'm not unhappy over the amount of money CCP has gotten from me over the years because I consider it to be money well-spent. I AM unhappy about the monocles and other crap in the NEX store becasue it's alot of money for... entierly worthless items. Even if they had value, like ship-enhancements etc. it still would not measure up to allowing me to play the game itself. And this item here is in the exact same line. An entierly value-less item the makers are asking an absurd amount of RL cash for. There is no point in trying to argue that paying for one's subscription is expensive over the years just as these items are, subscriptions serve an entierly different purpose and function.

[Esna Pitoojee]

I expect I've spent somewhere in the rough vicinity of 650$ on my EVE account payment, plus another 115$ on 3 ETCs at various times...

Yeah, I've spent less than 2/3 of the cost of ONE of these items, over four years, and I generally consider this to be money well spent.

Which brings up my next question - what would happen if "Dark Orbit" had EVE-style griefers? I mean people who would get together and expend huge amounts of their own resources simply to off these shiny combat drones to produce massive tears from their owners? I don't even know if you can do this in "Dark Orbit", but I presume not or they wouldn't dare sell something so valuable if it could be lost to a bunch of bored people intent on making your life miserable.