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Disturbingly Bored
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Posted - 2013.05.08 02:10:00 -
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DUST Fiend wrote:It is funny that their argument basically says "AUR gives too much of an advantage" 
Whatever the stated argument is, it boiled down to a simple calculus on the back end.
Having several players with millions of AUR in their accounts also creates a long standing thorn that they have to account for whenever they decide to introduce a new way to spend AUR. It causes a detriment to future revenue streams if some new way to spend AUR is either tradable, or would be desirable to the people who have a mountain of AUR to spend.
Having several players with hundreds of BPOs in their accounts causes less of a problem, as it only deflates the ISK value of those BPOs once they open up a proper market. (You cannot directly trade for AUR on the EVE market, I'd bet good money you won't be able to on the DUST market.) There were only so many BPOs that were purchased cheaply, and there will not be any more in the future.
Choice 1: instability, liability, damaged revenue. Choice 2: minor market inconvenience. Guess which CCP is going to pick.
As always, caveat emptor, muthafu****. |
Disturbingly Bored
Universal Allies Inc.
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Posted - 2013.05.08 05:43:00 -
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Stexn byd wrote:
lol... yeah. Keep telling yourself that.
I don't need to convince myself of anything. I'm not QQing over a lost AUR goldmine.  I'm happy with the BPOs I have.
Winsaucerer wrote:
And deflated ISK value translates into loss of revenue. Those BPO's don't disappear -- players buy them, and for a deflated ISK price, thus cutting into CCP's revenue.
Not quite so. The BPOs don't deflate the value of ISK as a whole, only for Militia BPOs.
A massive influx of AUR deflates the value of anything you could possible buy with AUR.
One affects a limited number of items, which cannot be bought for the cheap price again at any point in the future, and the other affects the cost of all AUR items across the board until all that spontaneously generated moolah is spent.
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Disturbingly Bored
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Posted - 2013.05.08 13:31:00 -
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Arramakaian Eka wrote:edit: as someone who works in corporate finance for a living, refunding AUR items at their current price would inflate CCP's liability to their customers (players). Depending on how many of these BPOs are out there, we could talk about hundreds or millions of euros. It will not happen. Period.
That's one of the point I was trying to make, but you said it better. +1
Though I think it's simply a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, which happens in every reasonably large company.
The left hand of game design and customer service thought a refund was a fair idea. The right hand of accounting said "Aw hell naw!"
Money always wins. |
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