Rowdy Railgunner wrote:https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1524382#post1524382Here is the thing though. I don't have any vehicle BPOs myself, but I feel this is a slippy slope, and how long until CCP comes for dropsuit modules? I purchased AUR for the ability to buy BPOs before they were gone from the market. Just like CCP told me too, and I thought about it for a few days and even researched how much they would benefit me in the future knowing that I would never need ISK to run a decent suit. I planned out my purchase and executed it based on the promise that BPOs would always be there to fall back on from CCPs dev blogs. Now here we are not even 2 months later and they are removing some of those "permanent" purchases with little thought on how the consumer feels and not even offering a suitable substitute. AUR is not suitable. I purchased a "permanent" item with my AUR, now there are none of those on the market. I don't want AUR in return. I want the cash back. Put it into my PS account. I am a PS+ member, I am sure I will find something to spend it on. Hell, if CCP offers something good in the future I might even reinvest it back to them.
To push people to buy an item, and then remove it 2 months later though..... This is the sign of a disorganized and/or sheisty company. Or the fact that the playerbase is actually so low, that CCP is scared that once we as a community realize that we actually hold the power of future AUR purchases.... well. The first thing they want to do is get rid of our BPOs, because they do not want a satiated player base. They want us to buy more AUR, infact, they need it.
BPOs, DO NOT, mess with the future ingame economy. They mess with CCPs bottomline. If you have the BPO, why buy the expendable new mod that CCP has on the market? This is what I am fighting against. This is the big picture that all you "BPOs are bad for the ingame economy" people never think of. I am an earthly being. I have lived through 34 years of being the villain and the hero. The only qualification you need for that is knowing when to use your middle finger.
Well today I am using my middle finger, because I see what CCP is trying to fool everyone into. And I am against it.
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well first off, the BPOs were never said to be permanant in terms of "guarenteed never to be removed from the game", if you read the EULA that people have begun quoting, CCP can change anything they feel like within the game for any reason or no reason whatsoever.
and you see that when you read that upon signing up and you determined you were ok with that.
upon purchasing aurum you noticed in the agreement that aurum is non- refundable, and im sure in all your careful reasearch on the subject you added this into concideration when you were determining weather or not you were guying to buy aurum for BPOs.
you bought aurum for BPOs knowing that aurum was non refundable, and that BPOs are not guarenteed to always be in the game, and can be removed at any point in time for no reason whatsoever.
and you decided you were ok with that.
you made an informed desision (or at least you said you did when you made it) and now you regret that desision.
having non - refundable psudocurrencys is legal in every country the PS-store sells in
also changing and removing verious paid for items in a video game is legal in the countrys of operation.
the industry standard for "satisfactory" compensation in the event one of said items is removed is a refund in the currency used to purchase it.
there literaly isnt another more fair method of compensation.
and EVERYONE who bought AUR was aware it wasnt refundable.
theres no excuse for this kind of behavior, it amounts to a temper tantrum by people who should return to being refered to as children.
you ****** up, you made a bad call, you regret your desision.
but it WAS your desision, nobody else made it for you.