Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
Final Resolution.
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Posted - 2014.05.27 23:41:00 -
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I asked Saberwing this on Twitter:
"If Legion is a different game why is CCP stating that everything will transfer? I want a transfer but I am confused Legion=DUST?"
"Because we want to honor player's investments and commitments. We're using our learnings from DUST for Legion."
So I am guessing that Aurum will transfer over. SP as well. I highly doubt ISK will. It makes the prices for things like Shield Extenders too high for new players because you can just sell them for 30,000 because the people coming from DUST with 50, 100, 500 million, a billion ISK would buy them. The new player would be screwed. With the ISK firehouse that was PC, I don't see that transferring at all.
The problem, though, is not Aurum. That is an easy number. You have 23,304 Aurum left, that transfers easily enough. The problem is Aurum items and BPO's. In Legion, Aurum modules will not exist. Alright, so CCP could refund Aurum for the purchases made... but they can't. How many people have Aurum Forge Guns or HMG's from the Heavy event? Do they refund those; how could they tell "those came from the event" rather than someone buying them? What if they bought a bunch of stuff on sale? I mean, a LOT of people bought Militia BPO's when they amounted to 25 cents each worth of AUR and were later increased to 5 dollars worth of AUR. Do they suddenly get hundreds of thousands or millions of Aurum free?
Bigger issue: things bought for straight money. I have 350 prototype melee damage mods and 7 Dragonfly Scouts from the Mercenary packs. They were 20 dollars each. Those melee damage mods could not be gotten anywhere else; they have no requirements for +25% damage. What are they worth for Aurum? What about my Dren pack? 100 dollars that gave me BPO suits, weapons, and LAV. Those don't have an Aurum value. I bought 100 dollars for THOSE items not for 100 dollars worth of Aurum. That would be like Walmart taking away my 100 dollar TV from my living room and giving me a 100 dollar stereo.
Honestly? I don't think CCP has an answer yet. They obviously want to transfer "player's investments" because that is basically asking to lose all faith with your customers if you do a "thanks for beta testing what is now Legion; please buy everything you had again." But there are a lot of hard questions that they really do not know how to handle. I know you didn't want speculation but until a developer lays it all out on the table it is all we got.
Would love a blue tag as well. *activates the CCP-signal*
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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