You realize what you just said here doesn’t make sense.
You’re saying that buying SP is bad because it’s “purchasing advantages.”
Then you said that buying characters is okay because you can “track it”.
These are two different criteria.
You are comparing two different things with different metrics and trying to suggest that one is bad and the other was okay, but it doesn’t make any sense since you’re using two different criteria to compare them. So if we could “track” the SP that players are buying from banned characters, that would suddenly make buying SP okay?
A long time ago I used to be in the Army, and I remember when I went away my skillqueue ran out. I never got to benefit from this but I have heard that CCP would reimburse lost SP because someone was out at sea or somewhere working remotely where their skillqueue would stop or run out but they kept up their subscription.
Maybe they have bent that policy a little more to retain you but I don’ think it’s that big of a deal. What is that anyway like 4-6 weeks?
I was trying to convey that sp gained thru harvesting characters in the market was more balanced since it was player and demand regulated then merely purchasing it directly from the company. Trying to type replies between job responsbilities doesn’t help, either.
Now we have a third metric, whether something is “balanced”.
Given that you can only purchase this SP pack once, and you get get like 3m SP over the course of the month with the booster, compared to flat out buying, say for example, a fully skilled Rorqual pilot… iono, i’d say that buying SP from CCP is more “balanced”.
Well, since more details are coming to light since the OP, some of my reservations are reduced. Much of that new information was detailed in this thread during times were I was composing a reply and crossed over during my time away from the thread. I still want to be vigilant that CCP doesn’t try to introduce the concept of direct store advantages. As many other games have shown and the devs had stated in their past goals, the risk is real. However, I do feel relieved that further details show that this is a one time offer to reup to Omega, creating fewer reservations for me.
this is actually different from that. its a bundle that is only being sold to previous omega clone pilots who have had their subscription lapse and is not available for general purchase by others.
It’s still CCP selling SP directly which is thoroughly addressed in the thread from July. There are no new arguments here. Everything said in July is as relevant to this offer, and it’s not like CCP hasn’t been literally giving SP away without it being trained for ages before that.
The skillpoints being sold in packs are the same as skillpoints gained from the log-in campaign and the in-game daily tasks, they’re all generated by CCP.
In fact CCP just recently offered a pardon to most players that were previously banned so the skillpoints are definitely not from banned players.
It really doesn’t matter anymore, there’s been enough sp given away by CCP. Having ‘x’ amount of sp on a character doesn’t really mean much anymore it’s as irrelevant as the character start date.
Used to be that skills points could only be accumulated with time. Now you can just buy them, does it matter if someone else trained them? No. The person buying them didn’t earn those sp.
It’s kind of been a slippery slope, which was made possible because of the character bazaar. Because buying from the character bazaar was like buying sp, although you had to buy the character as is.
CCP may as well just sell the sp, although those players that farm and sell sp in-game won’t like that solution.
