Honestly you must be really stupid…
Like Entropia and other similiar games, real P2E gets tied to your bank accounts…which becomes recordable and taxable income.
I can’t wait for CCP to take a 45% cut on all cash-out transactions and then lay a flat fee on top of that as well!
Why not both?
Imagine, you snipe some streamer because you knew his fit and then made some $$$ from the gank. The tears would be surreal
That’s not how it works. They’d actually see money increase as people go to liquidate their old accounts since eve players in general don’t mind spending some of their expendable income for player trades. Either way no one really knows outside the company what’s going on when it comes to the NFT and P2E stuff. People are trying all sorts of ideas out there and a lot of them are quite frankly bad. the best way imo is to have a crypto currency that’s tied to a bank account with some sum of money as buffer to cover for transactions and allow player trading as it goes on normally where players literally use their cc so that another player may trade them what they want and just take like 10% plus a dollar after the transaction approves. Have the funds temporarily go into their crypto currency bank account and once everything clears it transfers out and they remain with the 10%+1. With time that account would grow all on its own due to player activity.
I’d make it where only omega accounts can participate since it’s quite easy for an alpha account to acquire enough plex to upgrade to omega.
Hmm. I don’t see how that’s the case.
If someone left Eve and simply abandoned their account…that account still has value in it but the player cannot access that value. It’s just left there to rot. This is the case in a lot of MMOs. There must be huge reserves of value in abandoned accounts.
Sure, if all those players returned you’d see an increase in liquidity…if that value could not be withdrawn from Eve. But we’re talking about RMT and the ability of people to return specifically to withdraw that value. ISK that were previously sitting there doing nothing for years would be withdrawn and that would clearly affect the total value in Eve…and CCP would effectively lose money to an ISK drain that had no corresponding faucet.
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People who make a profit from RMT websites aren’t withdrawing value from the games they play. They’re getting paid by players paying them for the things they got by playing the game fairly. I know you don’t care because you’re being disingenuous as it is on purpose. No one is so retarded to believe that people liquidating their accounts would ruin the eve market since all that’s going on is stuff already available in the game that people got fairly would be exchanging hands for money that comes from players, not CCP.
I have always assumed that bots are separate paid accounts running “properly” in parallel. If my assumption is correct then CCP makes money on them.
Is botting otherwise?
The only concern I have with it is the same thing that happened with greedy Blizzard and their real money auction house in Diablo 3. Since they were taking a percentage of each transaction based on the amount transacted, it was in their interest to keep the prices high. They did this by killing the drop rate of marketable items to the point where the price was so artificially inflated that there were more farming bots than players.
Good for the company but not good for the game.
I can see this happening here as well based on my experience with the company over the last 15 years coupled with the new owners needing to keep a board of directors happy by showing a steadily increasing profit. Of which the easiest way to do is lay off staff and push a corrupt RMT system that will double the player base due to bots.
Once again. Good for the quarterly reports and bad for the game.
If they could learn from other company’s mistakes and come up with a system that won’t make everyone quit, however. I’m all in.
Mr Epeen 
I found this linked in another thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/s6ubmx/nft_and_rmt_is_a_key_to_make_eve_last_forever/
Hilmar : We do desire the future that people play our game, they feed their families (via game), and can ensure their retirement lives, and blockchains are the way to achieve it. I don’t believe it’s the only way though, should try it at least. That’s how EVEs world last forever, and we share the same goal as cryptocurrencies supporters do.
Hilmar did an interview a month ago where he essentially stated that play-to-earn is the future of EVE Online.
I’m surprised this isn’t being talked about more. It sounds like the fate of the game has already been decided, without so much as a peep from the devs. This sideshow interview is the strongest signal so far about CCP’s future intentions, and it is completely at odds with everything CCP has promised in the past with regard to how the game will evolve and what is and isn’t on the table.
Everyone has been focused on the industry changes and other unpopular updates, but that absolutely pales in comparison to what is being forecasted by the CEO here.
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Very interesting.
Thanks!
Because you are content for other, possibly paying players. Games like clash Royale are flooded with nonpaying players who are content for the whales that pay. The whole f2p model is built on the backs of a handful of whales supporting everyone else - the non paying people are needed to give the whales something to do.
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Yep, a game like EVE requires a playerbase to provide us players a living universe. Even if a group of players does not pay, their presence improves the game.
Also they’re potential future customers.
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