Teleportation is, teleportation specifically from a Nullsec citadel to a Losec NPC station is not. When your magic mechanics need to be ultraspecific, that’s called grasping at straws.
Do the citadels even have a feature or module on them that does this? LOL
Space dragons here we come.
Okay. I get it. If it’s a mechanic you like, it’s science. If it’s a mechanic you don’t like, it’s magic.
Because you do understand that you just deflected the conversation from your little theoretical science excuse to a game mechanics excuse, right?
No teleportation is fine, if we are going to have it then lets have it. But saying “hey look we have teleportation and it teleports items” but then completely limiting it too only 1 application that serves 1 purpose and it has 0 applications otherwise isn’t just dumb, its unbelievable.
There is literally no structure even that says it does this, so they all do this, without question but it can’t be used in those same structures in Highsec or from Losec to Highsec? Wtf?
Whats next my modules work twice as hard when i enter Null?
I like that idea!
I don’t see how they would owe you anything. When you buy PLEX you buy it under the understanding that it is not refundable.
There’s also the problem that when the PLEX is circulating in-game lots of them won’t be with the original owners.
Simple answer is if they don’t want to lose their PLEX, don’t bot. They agreed to stick to the rules by downloading and playing the game. Although, I suspect most people don’t actually read the rules. But not reading the rules doesn’t change anything.
Expiration date on PLEX, that would be ill advised, especially as they’re already in circulation, some people have paid a lot of money on PLEX.
Still it would be a good way to get more regulations on the gaming industry. But seriously they couldn’t really do that, they would have a hard time trying to justify that decision.
Which in itself is a practice of dubious legality.
If I sell you a voucher for a massage, and then say “hey, did you just look at my ass? your voucher is void!”, you could probably sue me. It’s really no different here. Just because a company puts some ■■■■ into their ToS that states “normal laws don’t apply” doesn’t mean that it’s valid. What they do to ensure that they can get away with it is put a bunch of technicalities and arbitrage clauses in there to bog users down and deter such contests.
Right, but the point at which the PLEX circulates is the point at which it has left your hands, which means that you’ve “redeemed” it (gotten value for your purchase).
I think I like Jonah’s take on this the most: cheating is a breach of contract. But the thing about breach of contract is that it can be contested. It’s just that no one’s going to go to court for a micro-transaction purchase like that, especially when they’d have to out their RL identities while being tied to cheating.
Of course it would be, which is exactly the reason why I’m not convinced that CCP would never do something like this. :V
Not really in the case of software.
You get a disc from a company and install it and then decide you want to send it back because you decided you didn’t want it. What are they supposed to do with it, throw it away as it wouldn’t be cost effective to do anything else. Even if all you did was take it out of the packaging, they don’t know what you did with it.
As for downloaded software, you’ve already installed the product, it’s not like you can give it back.
So in the case of software I’d say it’s actually quite a reasonable practice.
But you’re not buying software, you’re buying a service?
Actually you’re buying a license to use the software. But you still need to download or install the product first.
That’s a subscription (or even just getting the game and playing for free).
How is something like PLEX or a skill pack classified? I’m not sure if that can be called a license, but I could be wrong.
Pretty sure they are just objects, which is a small program that has a series of attributes.
With PLEX you are buying something from them which they add to the game, because you’ve paid to be able to use those objects. So in a way you are being licensed to use them. How CCP would refer to it, I don’t know.
Asset safety is not teleportation.
This is right, I thought the NPC stations stuff is safe, or that Niarja is safe from CCP, now I am starting to think they will start to remove accounts and all the PLEX on it after 90 days of inactivity. 
This statement definitely needs a citation.
There’s stupid, and then there’s statements like that…
But did you see EULA?
No one knows that day and hour, when all of it will be gone.
I always thought that asset safety happened as part of the evacuation of all the non-capsuleers from the station. We capsuleers may not care about those janitors and other folk, but they’re there. And when the station is about to explode these people make their escape to a nearby station in system, or the nearest NPC station in lowsec. And they are nice (opportunistic?) enough to take your stuff with them, for a small reward obviously.
This also explains why your assets aren’t saved in an abandoned citadel.
Pretty much my view.
The mechanic makes sense.
CCP just needed to do a one off trigger of asset safety for all inactive players and we would have avoided all the issues, they didn’t, and we had several examples occur visibly in the next few weeks after the update of people who had been inactive, came back and had lost large amounts of stuff. Multiply that over time and the problem starts to become a bit more serious than people like to pretend, it just isn’t likely to be very visible as most will just press the close button and go somewhere else in response.
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