Feedback from me and my friends about the AUR purchasing system.

Spending $ .03 on a basic rifle, then $ .03 for a basic suit, etc. for every death is a major turn off. If my fit is mostly AUR items I can easily end up spending $1.50/hour to play this game (and that's with the basic cheap AUR gear).

I feel like I'm being taken advantage of, and makes me perceive CCP as being overly greedy. All of which is bad for business. My friends and I were discussing this issue when someone made the observation that if I were to purchase the gun blueprint for say $1.50 or $2.00 and have access to the weapon for ISK I would no longer perceive CCP as being greedy, and feel better about the whole transaction.

I would have to die and repurchase a gun about 67 times (that's a lot) to reach the $2.00 mark, but I would feel better about paying $2.00 compared to $.03 a death for only a gun.

"The truth may as well not exist, perception is the only thing that matters."

Also, SP boosters do help.. :)

Feedback from me and my friends about the AUR purchasing system.

Spending $ .03 on a basic rifle, then $ .03 for a basic suit, etc. for every death is a major turn off. If my fit is mostly AUR items I can easily end up spending $1.50/hour to play this game (and that's with the basic cheap AUR gear).

I feel like I'm being taken advantage of, and makes me perceive CCP as being overly greedy. All of which is bad for business. My friends and I were discussing this issue when someone made the observation that if I were to purchase the gun blueprint for say $1.50 or $2.00 and have access to the weapon for ISK I would no longer perceive CCP as being greedy, and feel better about the whole transaction.

I would have to die and repurchase a gun about 67 times (that's a lot) to reach the $2.00 mark, but I would feel better about paying $2.00 compared to $.03 a death for only a gun.

"The truth may as well not exist, perception is the only thing that matters."

I am fine with buying in game gear that I can't lose, but I don't really like the idea of burning cash everytime I die in game. I would be way more likely to pay a larger amount of money for gear that is infinite like the Merc Pack. Perhaps that is because I hate gambling money in real life and I don't really want to do it in my virtual life either :)...I am not being cheap here, it is just a bit of mental block on death costing money when I will gladly buy $20 gear packs with infinite uses.

It's easy to say "Nobody is forcing you to buy it!"

Dear lord! If the wives find out that you are paying $$$ for every second you play a video game! Forget about it! Show me a married man that wants to have that conversation with his wife and I'll show you a lier.

It's easy to say "Nobody is forcing you to buy it!"

That's not the point. We want people to buy stuff so this game keeps getting bigger and better. I just don't believe that the current penny/nickle slot model is the best way for Dust 514 to be profitable.

The mass FPS target market wants to shut down their brain and have fun for months on end with out thinking twice about it. If I feel guilty about playing the game, I simply won't do it.

Not too mention the wife.

Dear lord! If the wives find out that you are paying $$$ for every second you play a video game! Forget about it! Show me a married man that wants to have that conversation with his wife and I'll show you a lier.

It's easy to say "Nobody is forcing you to buy it!"

In general the video game market with micro transactions is really sucessful these days. So chin up, soldier on.

Yeah, I can see that. I'd gladly pay $5 for a BPO of a dropsuit that's better than militia to fall back on if my isk starts running low. Would I want it to be the best suit in the game? No. Just somewhere around the tier 1 stuff.

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The more I think about it, the more I think your argument is pro pay to win; which is the opposite of the inital guideline laid down by CCP for DUST 514.

Protip: Use Y to "show info", look at stats of skilled weapons. The look at the stats of Aurum weapons.

I would have to die and repurchase a gun about 67 times (that's a lot) to reach the $2.00 mark, but I would feel better about paying $2.00 compared to $.03 a death for only a gun.

I can't justify spending RMT on anything subjected to player-inflicted loss.

NOTE: This is from someone with a long-standing interest in EVE, but who's never played. I'm not great, and I probably will need AUR gear at times, but I won't whine when I lose it.

Dude, do it now, sign up for EVE. You won't regret it I promise you. I was in a similar boat as you. I started getting real interested in Eve around 2007-2008. I said to myself "well I am already 4 years behind everyone else, I will just wait for Eve 2." Well in the summer of 2011 I got tired of waiting for Eve 2, so I finally made a trial. Best videogame decision ever. I wish I would of sub'ed back in 07 when I first started getting interested. Eve 2 is never coming, and believe it or not you can catch up to the guys playing for years, so come join us!

well...if ya dont like losing your aurum gear then you can do 2 things

1. dont buy it
2. dont use it

besides you get it all back when the game gets wiped


this is a perfect way to keep the game f2p but not p2w
since ya lose it on death it keeps it fair to the people that cant throw money towards CCP as often as they would like

and also if the game follows its mother EVE you should be able to buy Aurum on the market with ISK since its ok to sell PLEX on the market in eve...and plex is bought with good ol simoleons (money)

Dude, do it now, sign up for EVE. You won't regret it I promise you. I was in a similar boat as you. I started getting real interested in Eve around 2007-2008. I said to myself "well I am already 4 years behind everyone else, I will just wait for Eve 2." Well in the summer of 2011 I got tired of waiting for Eve 2, so I finally made a trial. Best videogame decision ever. I wish I would of sub'ed back in 07 when I first started getting interested. Eve 2 is never coming, and believe it or not you can catch up to the guys playing for years, so come join us!