Actually the Alpha clones go toward people who want instant gratification. The 21 days trial were great ( I would have personally made it 60 days free trial) and CCP should go back to that.
When I came back last year I thought PLEX was a great idea. Back in the day (2007) people used to buy ISK with real money from the ISK farmers. It was a bannable offence and I sure it still is. But instead of risking getting banned you can buy PLEX and sell it for ISK. CCP gets both the money from the PLEX and gets to keep charging a monthly fee since you did not get banned.
I have also noticed that changes have been made to make the game more expensive to play. This seems just a play to get more money from people buying PLEX.
Then I started noticing little things put in the game that seemed to just be to annoy the players. This would NOT be a way to get more money. I thought that might be some old developers that did not like some of the new changes. Maybe they have another job lined and kicking things on their way out. Angry people do not always do logical things.
Maybe my life experiences have made me paranoid. But remember that just because you are paranoid, it does not mean that you are not being followed!
I do not understand ship skins. Do players take a close look at your ship to see if has a cool skin before they blow it up?
Could you imagine if 2 years ago a micro singularity developed and your ethernet cable briefly superimposed with it’s future self, including the stream of tcp packets in transit, and you where able to catch a single snippet of future media and this was what you got? Besides for dumping all your stock, what would you imagine was going on in futureworld from that single snippet?
Black dessert seems like the absolute best thing in the world, I imagine like brownie ice cream that weighs as much as lead, nothing but chocolate and more chocolate with chocolate even inside the chocolate. But walmart now closes at 8:30 and I read this thread about black dessert at 8:40.
There are entire games built around playing dollhouse with stuff like skins. It takes a lot less of CCP’s time than walking in stations would have. I think people like mission runners need cool skins - otherwise they might die of boredom.
Yes but that is not a sign of the plex becoming more expensive. It was a design choice from CCP to make plex easier to trade and use with NEX store items.