If you'd read the blog you'd see that you will be getting your aurum back on anything with a value, including the militia BPOs. Only thing you'll have left are those things that have no value at all, like the Merc Pack BPOs and the Titan event.

If you'd read the blog you'd see that you will be getting your aurum back on anything with a value, including the militia BPOs. Only thing you'll have left are those things that have no value at all, like the Merc Pack BPOs and the Titan event.

Sell on the open market, give it to some deserving noob.

Yes, the post that follows may sound like qq'ing! But I must assure people that I am not.

I just have big concerns about the claim that "we realized this would give a hugely unfair advantage to these people". Dust 514 has been promised to not be pay to win. IF you say that millions of AUR gives "a hugely unfair advantage", then you are saying that Dust 514 is pay to win.

Some people in the world are wealthy enough to easily purchase millions of AUR. To get 1 mil AUR is $500, which is for no doubt a few lucky-in-life Dust 514/EVE players easy to give up. Are you saying that these people are given "a hugely unfair advantage"? More precisely, a "hugely unfair advantage" that you are not willing to give to poorer players who happened to take a (very minimal) risk on a potential to get some of this fortune themselves that they can't match with real world funds?

I honestly don't mind the decision in general. I, like others, took the risk. If it pays off, I will be happy and gloat. If it doesn't, I've lost little. But the justification given here has very worrying implications.

I hope you guys are able to explain to them that this is BS.

I'm not even trying to make a profit. I just don't use the damn things anymore.

This was a low blow. And it's CCP bowing down the anti-AUR PTW guys.

Seems like a weird business model. Bow down to the guys who don't spend any money and screw the guys who have.

Strange.

If you'd read the blog you'd see that you will be getting your aurum back on anything with a value, including the militia BPOs. Only thing you'll have left are those things that have no value at all, like the Merc Pack BPOs and the Titan event.

I hope you guys are able to explain to them that this is BS.

I'm not even trying to make a profit. I just don't use the damn things anymore.

This was a low blow. And it's CCP bowing down the anti-AUR PTW guys.

Seems like a weird business model. Bow down to the guys who don't spend any money and screw the guys who have.

Strange.

Market speculation never gives you the rights to profit, it all depends on what CCP decides to do.

Suck it up, cause trillions of ISK has been lost and no one cared then nor now. And I speak as one who got lucky in the past.

Look all im saying is CCP has a separate way of tracking aurum purchases for each account. I know this from personal experience with CCP.


Point is CCP could easily avoid the profit user would make on BPOs by refunding them AUR at the rate they purchased. (of course many would be fuming over this as these were purchased at cheaper rates, which ppl want to keep either as collectors or to sell to collectors down the road)

So its a clash of ppl who would have Aurum now at the value they paid for(many would be happy to have it at that rate and not seek to exploit it for market gain)

vs

Those who few closed beta testers that purchased a lot of BPO's at the lower market rate in anticipation of AUR refund or to sell on secondary market once it opened knowing that they're higher AUR price meant a larger eventual ISK return(a perfectly fair use)

Additionally there are those who purchased a single bpo of all the bpos for the purpose of collecting them or selling them to collecters. They would now have to repurchase them at a higher cost( a cost that everyone else has to pay now).



CCP very well could give us an option to choose in this regard too along with the character reset option as a SEPARATE option

Either keep you BPOs or AUR refund at the AUR price they were purchased at(that is a credit return no different than all the other AUR item returns, and since CCP can track the purchase but i imagine the price paid or at the least the date bought which can then be used to calculate the cost at that time).


Since these are BPO's there is no immediate day 1 rush to resolve this today. These things arent going anywhere

250 million Isk refunded 0o

250 million Isk refunded 0o

How did you find this out?

I hope you guys are able to explain to them that this is BS.

I'm not even trying to make a profit. I just don't use the damn things anymore.

This was a low blow. And it's CCP bowing down the anti-AUR PTW guys.

Seems like a weird business model. Bow down to the guys who don't spend any money and screw the guys who have.

Strange.

But it does state in the Dev blog that this will be the last AUR and merc pack reset. So I'm not sure if I agree with the final statement.

lol shut up, this whole AUR refund thing is new, back when you first bought them you knew damn well that you'd have to sell them for ISK if you no longer wanted them in the future.

Also, since they require no SP investment, and CCP is only doing this because of changes to the skill system, then there's no need to refund them anyway.

TL:DR get over it.