{"id":760,"date":"2011-05-28T09:09:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T08:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/28\/aurum\/"},"modified":"2011-05-28T09:09:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T08:09:01","slug":"aurum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/28\/aurum\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurum"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a devblog<\/a> published 27th of may CCP announced the upcoming Microtransactions Store coming to Eve. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to buy cloths (and monocles) for your character from this store. And you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll need \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAurum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to be able to buy them. Aurum comes from turning in Plexes. So what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the argument from CCP to it this way ?<\/p>\n

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So we’re left with the question of how to give you the customizability and uniqueness you want without simply raising the subscription rate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Aha ! If this is the case then you simply suck at doing business. Why invent a new \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfeature\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that you claim you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually afford to bring at the current subscription rate ? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe the above argument for a second. Eve is already one of the most expensive MMOs out there. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s used to fund the upcoming other MMO, and Dust. CCP simply wants to make more money, why not be honest about it.<\/p>\n

Basically they have been working on Incarna all this time, and letting the space game slide, while working on a side game which doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even offer gameplay, and you need Real Money to be able to use. Your $15,- a month is only good for an orange noobie overall. Also ship decals, alliance logos on your ship etc will have to be bought through above mentioned store.<\/p>\n

This is also is a step away from a player driven economy. CCP will set the price of cloths and no one else.<\/p>\n

You might also wonder who is interested in this ? I think they want to just get a new player base that wants to spend money on these kind of things. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see Eve players as the type that enjoy playing Barbie in space. And where will it end ? Faction ammo next ? Faction blaster ? +10% missile damage boots ?<\/p>\n

As you might have guessed from the above, I am not enjoying this decision by CCP at all. The responses<\/a> to the devblog have been mainly negative too and #tweetfleet wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t too excited either. But then again as I said, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the target audience any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a devblog published 27th of may CCP announced the upcoming Microtransactions Store coming to Eve. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to buy cloths (and monocles) for your character from this store. And you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll need \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAurum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to be able to buy them. Aurum comes from turning in Plexes. So what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the argument from CCP to it this … Continue reading Aurum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[112],"tags":[102,72],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incarna-2","tag-incarna","tag-rmt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sXll4-aurum","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}