What? That is a bit high, but not out of line with what we saw in preceding months. Feb. 2017 had -35.6 trillion ISK, Jan. 2017 had an active ISK delta of -60.7 trillion. And October 2017 had -38.1 trillion ISK. The average from April 2017 back to July 2016 is -23.3 trillion and discounting December 2016 given that is when Alpha clones hit, it is -27.8 trillion. So if the Active ISK Delta changes dramatically it will have an effect on the money supply, especially if it happens for an extended period. Suddenly a bunch of ISK that was locked out of the economy due to subs being inactive then there could be an issue with inflation.
As I said, CCP jumped on the problem in 2017 pretty quickâŚlooking at the inflation numbers there isnât much evidence of inflation let alone hyperinflation.
However, this has become a meme. It literally wonât die. People were saying it when there was, if anything, DEFLATION.
Or pay for SP
Or pay for SKINs
Or pay for MCT (honestly I canât see this ever happening on an Alpha account, but in theory it could)
Or pay for clothes
If you think Omega is the only way to âpayâ CCP, you just havenât been paying attention.
It would be more true had you said:
What CCP really wants you to either:
be content for PLEX buyers
or
pay real world money for PLEX or a subscription.
Thatâs it.
Alphas and Omegas can both take either of these roles.
Yes, but I think we could argue that this might be more than a PLEXed Omega has paid, although a PLEXed Omega is much better âcontentâ (for CCP) to provide for the PLEX buyers. The logic here being that the 20 mil Alpha SP costs more than 20 mil Omega SP would cost, and an Omega who wants to PLEX their account should be able to do it before the 20 mil SP mark.
CCP âlogicâ
The bottom line is you are either buying CCPâs content, by transferring them real world money, or you are the content they are selling to others.
The new Alpha update and Alpha injectors will make it harder/slower for a player to PLEX their account, because instead of saving for the big one-time buy of a PLEX, they will now have the instant gratification option of cashing out their savings for 1-day of SP, at a higher cost. Alpha is a financial win for CCP, not a free give-away.
It is but at some point Alpha stops to pay while Omega continues to do it. Even if by this time Alpha paid 1.5x of Omega with the same amount of SP there will be point when Omega becomes more interesting for CCP. Letâs say it happens when Omega reaches 30 million SP. Does it change anything? Nope. Alpha stopped to pay while Omega continues to do it.
Ideally every player is content for others. Be it Alpha or Omega.
Iirc, there was a lot of disgruntled carrier pilots after the nerf, whom may have contributed to the isk delta post-nerf, as compared to the preceeding situation.
Furthermore, back then, it was only when the situation got bad that CCP acted, and it got bad because gradually more players recognized the potential profit from carrier ratting.
I know that you are confused by things like logical statements, but nothing I said excluded paying customers from being content for other paying customers. The âorâ has no reason to be taken as an exclusive or. Let me try to spell it out for you with small words:
If you donât give CCP real world money but you play the game, you are only content for paying customers, you are not yourself a customer. CCP wants this.
If you pay CCP real world money but donât actually play the game, you are a paying customer, but you are not content for other players. CCP wants this.
If you create accounts but donât pay anything or play, you are neither content nor a customer. CCP doesnât want this.
If you pay real world money and you play the game, you are both a paying customer and content for other paying customers. CCP wants this.
Being Omega could make you fall into the âonly contentâ group (if in-game PLEXed) the âcustomer but not contentâ group (if you donât play) or (this is an âexclusive orâ) the âcustomer and content groupâ (if paid with real world money). So, your sarcasm and eye-roll only shows that you have misunderstood⌠again.
Next time, it might help you if you drew the truth table or actually thought about what was said before making such a stupid reply. And to save you another stupid reply the above âCCP wants thisâ statements are not equally weighted.
No, the subscriber continues to pay, Omega may or may not continue to pay. And since I was talking about âPLEXed Omegaâ (of course you can buy PLEX from CCP to PLEX your own account, but those players are counted as âsubscribersâ not âPLEXed Omegaâ for the points Iâm making) they are by definition not âpaying customersâ but âcontent for paying customersâ.
So the question is not about the end state where the 20 mil SP Alpha and the PLEXed Omega are both not paying customers but only content for paying customers, but how and what they paid to get there. Treating the two extremes (most real-world cases will be a mix of these):
If they both got there by in-game grinding then neither of them paid anything.
If they both got to their end state only by paying CCP real world money, the Alpha would have paid much more.
As I said before, the end state PLEXed Omega is âbetter contentâ for CCP, this is because it is both game content and real money market content, where as the Alpha is game content and potential real money market content.
Of course! I think we agree on this. You were the one who first said âcontent orâ. Itâs not that paying makes you stop being content for other players, but that if you arenât transferring CCP real world money you are âonlyâ content. By âonlyâ content, I mean you are not a paying customer, but you are still a potential customer. (See above for more on this.)
We are all each otherâs content. Saying that Alphaâs are simply content for Omegaâs is completely blinkered. Creating these artificial distinctions is neither helpful or desirable.
I said people who donât give CCP money are not paying customers, and therefore are not customers, but are potential customers and content for those who actually pay CCP real world money, also content for other non-customers.
Edit
In fact I think I was quite clear that the conversation should not be about Alpha and Omega, because either can be a paying customer or not, but about who is actually giving or not giving real world money to CCP.
The idea that Omegas pay and Alphas play for free is not true. Yes, âsomeone had to buy the PLEX the Omega usedâ and the person who bought it is CCPâs customer and the player who buys it in-game is the content for that PLEX buyer. In-game transactions donât pay any of CCPâs bills, the in-game PLEX market is content for those who buy PLEX to sell for ISK.
Actually your position was not just that, but also sarcasm that I had said otherwise. The argument hasnât been about who you said was or wasnât content, itâs been about you implying, and later saying, that I had said Alphas are content for Omega and Omegas are not content.
Since your âpenultimate responseâ you havenât shown at any point that you have understood anything that I have written, yet you are convinced that I am wrong. The fact that you are trying to say I said things about âAlphasâ and âOmegasâ just shows that you either didnât understand what I said, or you intentionally tried to twist it into a straw-man.
P.S. @Salvos_Rhoska thanks for the edit to fix gender issues.
Look at bolden part. People can buy PLEX to resell for ISK only when there is demand for PLEXes ingame.
So yes, in a sense, every Omega is paid customer. And PLEXing makes more money to CCP that subscribing.
Yes, but that demand is the content, not the customer.
Yes it does, but it makes the money from the real life PLEX buyer, not from the in-game PLEXer. In fact it makes CCP the same about of money (or more becuase of demand) if that PLEX gets destroyed in-game.
The demand of the in-game PLEX is the content that makes PLEX be bought, buying the real world buying of PLEX makes CCP money and makes that player a customer of CCP. What happens to the PLEX after itâs bought in the real world effects the demand, but it doesnât change CCPâs income if itâs used to in-game PLEX or not.
In that sense every Player is a paid customer, in that sense every crappy free Facebook game has âpaying customersâ because they provide the demand for advertisers to pay for the game. As the saying goes âif you arenât paying (real world money) for it, you arenât a customer, you are the product.â
Google, Facebook, etc. they all provide something to you without a real world cost so they can sell you to others. EvE does the same thing by providing in-game (without real world money) options for expanded game play, and those who grind for and spend ISK for SP/game time are the product sold to real world PLEX buyers.
Itâs not that paying makes you stop being content for other players, but that if you arenât transferring CCP real world money you are âonlyâ content. By âonlyâ content, I mean you are not a paying customer, but you are still a potential customer. (See above for more on this.)