Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
Capital Punishment.
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Posted - 2014.11.19 01:09:00 -
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Welcome to the potential problem with ANY purchasable materials in games or other electronic media: sudden changes. "I bought the Militia Rail Rifle BPO but now it is heavily nerfed, I can barely use the thing!" "I bought a Quafe Minmatar Commando as my AV suit but now Assault is getting the 10% damage and not Commando!" "I bought a whole crap ton of Aurum tanks and now they are terrible!" It has been a problem since the very beginning of micro-transactions. Hell, Amazon did something a few years back where they removed, ironically, "1984" from people's Kindle accounts and gave them a charge back because it is public domain in most of Europe but is copyrighted in the USA so Amazon didn't have the right to sell it. "Because YOU didn't have the right to sell what you sold me I have to give it back?"
It is the scary bit with these kinds of things: we don't own anything. If CCP decided to ban me, they could. I am sure we have all did something in the EULA (that we all totally read) that would qualify for the boot. Valve has locked Steam accounts for getting cheaper copies of games from other regions, even if it was just "I bought a game for my friend in Australia because I thought he would like it." It's "purposefully bypassing regional content restrictions or regional pricing."
Meee One wrote:
Apex are full BPO,why would it matter if it were changed?
It would still be free,and could help you get ISK for the fits you would like to run.
They are not free. They are an investment. Calling APEX suits free is like calling the money you get from your stocking portfolio free; you had to pay for it but are hoping to get more money back than what you started with. But that is a really easy number to get.
10,000,000 / {What the Suit is worth to you} = A, number of deaths for the suit to actually save you money (round up to nearest whole)
B = Average amount of deaths per match when using the APEX suits.
C = Average amount of money you will make in a match.
(A / B) x C = Money earned when the suit 'breaks even.'
What I mean by "what the Suit is worth to you" is if you weren't going to run an APEX for grinding, what would you grind with. Frontline suit? Put a 0. Quafe Assault with Basic modules? Put the 4k there. Even add some extra because it has more slots for Standard gear but don't add too much extra as they are more poorly fit than what a person could do with min-max strategy.
So, how about calling it worth 15,000? You die, say, 3 times per match in an APEX suit. 200k per match.
A = 10,000,000 / 15,000 = 667 deaths
B = 3
C = 200
A / B = 223, rounded up. That's matches needed to have died enough times to make the 10,000,000 invested worthwhile. 223 x 200,000 = 44,600,000 money earned from playing the games. Minus the original investment, 34,600,000 isk. In other words, let's say that you run your APEX and I run my suit worth 15,000. In 446 games, I make 69,200,000 and you make 79,200,000 assuming it is ONLY using that suit. With my 50 million isk and play that waivers between 'not totally terrible' and 'mediocre', I can run my Prototype Suits and Tanks for as long as my interest is kept in the game. In short, I don't see the reason to purchase these suits to specifically grind for isk.
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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