Are you aware that only 10% of the population of the UK is under 18 years of age?
Yet, there are laws in place to prohibit them from doing the following:
Buying alcohol
Gambling
Voting
Giving consent in commercial contracts (eg cellular plans)
Buying tobacco
Serving on a jury
Running for public office
Why? It’s not about being a dick to teenagers. It’s about protecting them from themselves.
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Also: check the gaming review sites, the ESRB rating for EVE is T-13. The PEGI rating is PG-12. If gambling were introduced as an internal component of the game it would lose both ratings and would have to be rated R as well as be required to acquire gaming licences in EVERY jurisdiction it operates in.
This could get expensive for CCP and its parent company.
I suspect that CCF/PA may already have checked this out with real lawyers, rather than the ‘barrack-room lawyers’ who seem to inhabit every gaming forum known to man…
I see that PEGI 12 can have gambling in them, dont know what kind specifically. Hmm, may be a subject to change tho in future. Then they will have to consider reclassification.
Are you aware that i don’t care and stay strong to my opinion?
Obviously not…
You stay stubbornly on your course regardless what the logic or any kind of reason demands from you and what others say…even if it is harmful for your country…
Hello boris…
IT IS NO GAMBLING…
No real money involved that you can WIN…
Case closed because nothing more is needed to say…
Has anyone seen the BUG on the Test Server where a HyperNet Relay closes with “HyperNet Offer Expired”? I have 5 that didn’t sell all of the HyperNodes and expired after 3 days. The Large Skill Injectors have not been returned to me. I don’t see an option to “redeem” or anything like it.
I don’t have an issue with the model if it used ISK only. Otherwise I’m firmly against it.
Here’s a better use for the “Hypercore”: allow the raffle winner the option to transfer their winnings to a station of their choice for a fee in hypercores. Said fee should be based on the % estimated market value of the goods in question, the distance traveled by JF ranged jump, and the volume of the product, with a 2 day delivery time. WH stations should be excluded for obvious reasons. Volume should also be limited to what a single JF can carry. Edit* due to how easily exploitable this is by making your own private raffles, the fee should be much higher than what a player would pay for a JF service.*
If it goes well you could extend this shipping method to items outside of raffle winners. The price must be high to insure player run shipping services feel minimal impact. What does this offer the player in return? Convenience, asset management is by far the worst thing about playing eve outside of PI and gate travel, and not everyone is in an alliance that has a trustworthy logistical service available.
The legality of Microtransactions in video games is a big controversy. This has led to some countries banning this activity or requiring it be limited to only those above 18 years or older. This would apply to the purchase of Plex then using it in an online game, or these Hypercores. I do expect this will be a quick flash of success, followed by legal actions. Sad to say this could be a huge financial failure if the players feel it is not fair. Where we get into the aspect of “Selected by Random”, needs to be highly governed and documentation of the process published in the CCP Policies and Guidelines. I am coming up on 10+ years in the game across many pilots and will be sad to see this be the death note.
In the UK a hair dresser or business must obtain a music licence which is approx £269. If they don’t pay it and play the music in their salons a district judge can order that hairdresser to pay the licencors losses and legal fees and enforce it by bailiff. (a 20 stone 7ft tall man who can legally enter your home and take items to the value of the debt owed)
I didn’t say it was a teleportation device in its present form. I was responding to someone that said CCP should make it one for an additional delivery fee, which I am wholly against.
Instead of focusing on actual game issues we have nothing more than a cash grab to bilk the dwindling player base and feed into peoples gambling addictions. Meanwhile* GM Whiskers September 29, 2019 05:08
Greetings, GM Whiskers here,
Thanks for the update. Our developers are aware of the problem with 64-bit client and currently working on the solution. Please stay with 32-bit client for the time being. If you will encounter any issue or will have other questions, please feel free to update this ticket.
Best Regards,
GM Whiskers
CCP Player Experience | EVE Online
So for those that dont wanna read their entire post the TLDR is “Hello we at CCP want to add yet another form of RMT that is exclusive to only those who purchase from us the necessary commodity required to use our new feature “HyperNet Relay”, which is aimed at squeezing every buck out of our customers”.
Incredibly disappointed with this, absolutely dumbfounded as to how CCP came to the conclusion that this was something the game needed above all else. How does this increase player interest in the gameplay inside New Eden, it doesnt that’s how.
And, as I’ve noted a dozen times before, those are a miniscule subset of the population. It’s the equivalent of banning peanut butter for the entire planet because somebody’s got an allergy somewhere.
How to remove HyperNet from your client, posted by CCP Convict on reddit:
You can submit a ticket (click here or hit F12 in-game and click “Go to Help Center”) and under the Game Play Support → Game Play → General Questions category request in the Description field that the HyperNet is deactivated in your client. You can do this ahead of time if you like and our GMs will enact the request once HyperNet is added to TQ on the 10th of December. You will have to replicate this process for each one of your accounts.
on the Test Server where a HyperNet Relay closes with “HyperNet Offer Expired”? I have 5 that didn’t sell all of the HyperNodes and expired after 3 days. The Large Skill Injectors have not been returned to me. I don’t see an option to “redeem” or anything like it.
I have submitted a bug report on the Test Server.