Not sure if trolling...

You know you can still get SP anyway, right?

boosters will totally make you elite

Lol ok how they pay their staff without AUR ?

then how would CCP feed the kids (Logibro & Socksfour)

hey the option is there

you can buy a booster right now and double your SP income

... and the trolling appears.

hows that so everything dies in new eden..boosters aren't pay to win they are paying to get ahead. or to progress faster.

I said the same thing at the car dealership. Next time I'll take FIVE boxes worth of monopoly money.

Yes, CCP used their one and only income stream to start building three more games. Each of those games will eventually need to generate more revenue than it costs them to develop and maintain. CCP profits are not very high because R&D is eating into the profits they do generate. Their income statements are posted on their corporate site for all to see.

Sales of Aurum and virtual items are how CCP makes money off of DUST. Once the player market is added to DUST then all items purchased using Aurum should be able to be sold to other players for ISK. This will allow players that can't or don't want to spend real money to have access to all items, but those items will have been initially acquired by spending real money.

This is the same model used by PLEX in EVE and it can totally work here.

It just requires patience.

You do realize it pay to hit your cap faster right?

You ran out of things to complain about so you start calling it P2W? Just bad

I vote with "trolling".

Are you going to QQ up a storm because there is a model for CCP to actual earn revenue from the game?

Hey, it's the 'everything wrong with AAAR 514' pic

That pic actually has too much character.

So over the course of six months, someone using both of the Omega Boosters would have attained 9,318,400 SP more than someone who did not have any boosters at all for that duration. Do with the information what you will, but I for one think that this is a bit ridiculous.

The best F2P games I've seen have all made it so money saves time.
I.e. You spend money to make things in game go quicker.
Which boosters do, and I'm ok with that.

OP does have a point.

Item for item trading needs to happen sooner than later.

It does not have to be tied to EVE just yet. But honestly what is preventing the implementation to trade uneeded items or boosters for other items or isk.

Well trolling Sherlock you can cry about the booster all you like... but it still isn't pay to win. It's pay to progress a bit faster in SP and skill development.

Anyone with half a brain realizes that saving time progressing has value but that whether or not you pay you will still be able to progress and max out whatever skills you like.

So, troll, cry, pretend you are too stupid to understand, or whatever you like.

Does paying make a difference? Sure. Can you still do everything in the game without paying? Sure.

And, finally, for the terminally stupid, a booster has no direct influence on your combat. You know, the part where people are actually worried about winning.

I think some of you are crying because people who have money and are able to save time while you can't.

hey ONE day you will have isk boosters

when player trading comes to dust I will sell you a booster for 1 billion

...inflated claims.

Pay to win would be only being able to purchase something with aur and it not being availablemanywhere else, boosters are how they make money dude chill, its not that serious.