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I really like their approach of trying to solve real-money trading by PLEX (Pilot License Extensions). Essentially a PLEX buys you 30 days of game time. People
by maxniederhofer 17y ago
I really like their approach of trying to solve real-money trading by PLEX (Pilot License Extensions). Essentially a PLEX buys you 30 days of game time. People can buy a PLEX and trade it for in-game items. PLEX only has a value for people who want to play the game because you can't convert a PLEX back into real money. All the economic value is kept inside the EVE ecosystem, allowing for moderate but manageable inflation, hardcore players (i.e. the guys without jobs) to play the game for free and somewhat more casual players (i.e. the guys with jobs) to attain some items using cash. Brilliant.
- roc 17y agoSounds like the two-currency systems frequently floated to combat gold-farming in MMOs. It seems to me that a PLEX would be too large a chunk of currency to be effectively traded about. I wonder how that's going to work for them.