AMARR VlCTOR
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Posted - 2011.05.27 22:21:00 -
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AUR cosmetics are consumable. Simple as that. Herpderp I bought some cool pants for the equivalent of 55 million ISK. Oh, I got podded? Well ****. Time to go buy another set. Wait, I'm a PVPer and I die regularly? I'd have to choose between the new items and implants? What, I chose implants and CCP got less monies as a direct result? Huh. When I die to actually playing the game, I have no intention of renewing my fabulous microtransaction jacket. I plan to deal with this by simply never touching the Aurum system. Not that it really matters. I'm rich and I don't pay actual money for my accounts, nor would I pay actual money for Aurum. At present, it is simply not worthy of my ISK, let alone my real money. When you can't get someone to spend ISK on your new currency you have big problems with implementation.
CCP, if they're cosmetics that don't affect gameplay, make them permanent. Your current model for these items is foolish and completely excludes an entire segment of players. Sure, 20 mil for a logo on a ship is cool when you expect to keep it more than a week, but for PVP I'd rather spend that on rigs.
In fact, the entire system is greedy and plain stupid. We already pay a monthly fee, and on top of that some sell PLEX for ISK. This isn't a free to play game, and I don't know where you got the idea that it was. That aside, your implementation is horrible and makes all Aurum purchases completely unjustifiable for half your community.
tl;dr: No consumable microtransaction items please. Rather implement ship paint jobs and clothing as "pay aurum to unlock, pay ISK to apply to ship / character. Lose ship or pod, have to pay ISK again for a new set of clothes / paint job." This way, the system makes sense to actually use for players that don't just trade, do industry, mission 24/7 in Motsu, or roll around highsec in 100-man wardec blobs. Did I forget to mention the part where it would provide an ISK sink? Read: Something the economy desperately needs? CCP, you've added faucet after faucet to the game. What was the last sink you put in? Sov bills? We need another one.
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