# Cash Grab by ccp with newest skin. Over $40!? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [September 5, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/cash-grab-by-ccp-with-newest-skin-over-40/22297 "2017-09-05T19:56:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Salvos\_Rhoska](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/salvos_rhoska/32/14128_2.png) [@Salvos\_Rhoska](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Salvos_Rhoska)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 9:24am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/cash-grab-by-ccp-with-newest-skin-over-40/22297/161 "2017-10-24T09:24:26Z")
If someone is rich/stupid enough to buy them, thats their own problem. ---
**Author:** ![Grimliver\_Aurilen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/grimliver_aurilen/32/20039_2.png) [@Grimliver\_Aurilen](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Grimliver_Aurilen)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/cash-grab-by-ccp-with-newest-skin-over-40/22297/162 "2017-10-24T09:34:13Z")
I spend 500$ a month on world of tanks, then again that’s more thrilling then eve is these days ---
**Author:** ![Vortexo\_VonBrenner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/vortexo_vonbrenner/32/64874_2.png) [@Vortexo\_VonBrenner](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Vortexo_VonBrenner)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/cash-grab-by-ccp-with-newest-skin-over-40/22297/163 "2017-10-24T14:42:52Z")
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**Author:** ![Cristl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/cristl/32/13387_2.png) [@Cristl](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Cristl)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/cash-grab-by-ccp-with-newest-skin-over-40/22297/164 "2017-10-24T17:34:38Z")
It’s hard to argue the value of vanity and subjective luxury items. As they become more rare, their value increases without any regard for logic sometimes. The paintings of Mark Rothko sold over the last decade, for example: 2015, 82M USD (manual unfucking of link required) [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No)._10_(Rothko) 2014, 140M Euros, (manual unfucking of link required) [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No)._6_(Violet,\_Green\_and\_Red) 2012, 87M and 75M USD, for > **[Orange, Red, Yellow](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange,_Red,_Yellow)** > > Orange, Red, Yellow is a 1961 Color Field "painting" by Mark Rothko. It sold at Christie's for $86,882,500 on May 8, 2012. The seller was the estate of David Pincus and the sale price represents a record nominal price for Post-War / contemporary art at public auction and for Rothko works in general. The work was acquired by Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd. in London from the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc. in New York. Marlborough Fine Art sold the work to David Pincus in 1967. Pincus is regarded as... And > **[No 1 (Royal Red and Blue)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_1_(Royal_Red_and_Blue))** > > No 1 (Royal Red and Blue) is a 1954 Color Field painting by the Abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko. In November 2012, the painting sold for US$75.1 million (£47.2m) at a Sotheby's auction. And finally a steal at just 73 M USD from 2007, > **[White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Center_(Yellow,_Pink_and_Lavender_on_Rose))** > > White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) is an abstract painting by Mark Rothko completed in 1950. The work was sold in May 2007 by Sotheby's on behalf of David Rockefeller to the Royal family of Qatar; Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and his wife, Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned. The painting sold for 72.84 million (USD), then setting the record of the current most expensive post-war work of art sold at auction. ---
**Author:** ![Nana\_Skalski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nana_skalski/32/489985_2.png) [@Nana\_Skalski](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nana_Skalski)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/cash-grab-by-ccp-with-newest-skin-over-40/22297/165 "2017-10-24T19:08:06Z")
I recently found a video that could give some insight. Its about microtransactions in mobile games, but microtransactions are now everywhere. > **[Dynamic Pricing in Mobile Games (Scientific Revenue Keynote at Nucl.ai)](https://vimeo.com/144009041?from=outro-embed)** > > These are the slides from Bill Grosso's Keynote at the Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Creative Industries (nucl.ai). The thesis of the talk is that… ---
**Author:** ![Linus\_Gorp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/linus_gorp/32/317333_2.png) [@Linus\_Gorp](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Linus_Gorp)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 7:21pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/cash-grab-by-ccp-with-newest-skin-over-40/22297/166 "2017-10-24T19:21:37Z")
> [@Salvos\_Rhoska](#): > > If someone is rich/stupid enough to buy them, thats their own problem. Hey, just because I have more ISK than sense (way, way, waaaaaay more) doesn’t mean I’m stupid. I just don’t know what else to do with all those trillions of ISK! ---
**Author:** ![Blade\_Darth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/blade_darth/32/378598_2.png) [@Blade\_Darth](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Blade_Darth)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/cash-grab-by-ccp-with-newest-skin-over-40/22297/167 "2017-10-25T06:36:02Z")
> [@Linus\_Gorp](#): > > I just don’t know what to do with all those trillions of ISK! Make 100 keepstars and anchor them so it looks like “Linus Rules” from 1 au away. ---
**Author:** ![yellow\_parasol](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yellow_parasol/32/10455_2.png) [@yellow\_parasol](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/yellow_parasol)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/cash-grab-by-ccp-with-newest-skin-over-40/22297/168 "2017-10-25T13:13:07Z")
You’re neither forced to buy it, nor entitled to own it. should i buy one just to piss you off? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Salvos\_Rhoska](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/salvos_rhoska/32/14128_2.png) [@Salvos\_Rhoska](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Salvos_Rhoska)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 6:55am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/cash-grab-by-ccp-with-newest-skin-over-40/22297/169 "2017-10-27T06:55:04Z")
> [@yellow\_parasol](#): > > should i buy one just to piss you off? If that is your motivation, buy them all and see if I care. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 6:55am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/cash-grab-by-ccp-with-newest-skin-over-40/22297/170 "2018-01-25T06:55:19Z")
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