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Maken Tosch
Planetary Response Organisation
Test Friends Please Ignore
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Posted - 2013.02.10 19:15:00 -
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No pay to win here. Even the boosters aren't really pay to win because having better gear sooner doesn't make you a better merc if you don't have the proper experience and training to use those higher tier items. I understand the current debate about weapons and how they should be UNflattened in terms of stat differences for each tier, but that's something to talk about in another thread.
However, boosters will not lose their popularity regardless of their shelf life. There will always be new players wanting to use the while the veterans see this as a viable source of ISK income once UVTs and Boosters are able to be bought/sold on the player-controlled secondary market like how PLEX is in Eve.
Just like PLEX, Boosters and UVTs are expendable which will help maintain a certain level of demand in relation to their supply in the market. Just like PLEX and depending on their ISK value, players will then decide to either buy the AUR items with AUR directly (which requires cash to obtain) or pay ISK to another player willing to sell one for ISK (market traders).
As for the notion of veterans no longer needing the boosters after reaching pinnacle skill level, that's not entirely true. There will be occasions where even a veteran might need to train up something really quickly if there is something important they need to do that is outside their normal skill planning. It happens all the time in Eve and no doubt will be the same in Dust. And when they do buy it, they might end up buying it directly from the primary NPC market with AUR or end up buying it directly from the secondary player market with ISK depending on which method is more cost effective when taking into account the conversion rate between the USD and ISK. |
Maken Tosch
OPERATIVES OF THE GOAT
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Posted - 2013.04.18 20:45:00 -
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I hate seeing threads being necroed like this, but not as much as seeing someone create a new thread about the same thing.
So instead of having to file this thread under same-thread #153565999557427619568, I just need to pull out same-thread #12558. |
Maken Tosch
OPERATIVES OF THE GOAT
2031
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Posted - 2013.04.18 20:48:00 -
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Overall, historically CCP has fixed our taken out certain items that are considered pay to win because that is what CCP is trying to avoid. There at a few still available in the market, but they are few in comparison to the large number of ISK variants and will probably experience a rebalance of their own one day. |
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