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AOC Item shop vs Eve Online ...

jonchicoinejonchicoine Member Posts: 77
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Why all the bitching about Eve's Online shop and non about AOC. It appears to me that you can now purchase a lot more than just vaniity items.... Armor , weapons, and more....

 

what did i miss?

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  • mmoskimmoski Member UncommonPosts: 282

    The low interest and player base of AoC ? no one really cares ? I dunno...heh

  • OgdinOgdin Member UncommonPosts: 17

    Aoc is f2p so they are generating all there income through the item store,Eve has a monthly sub fee.So not really comparable.

    If your on the side that likes it great. If your on the side that doesn't,thats great.If your on the side that will argue til your face turns blue about pointless this or that comparisons,you've come to the right gaming site.

  • cyress8cyress8 Member Posts: 832

    AoC is free to play. EVE is not.

    BOOYAKA!

  • ThorvimThorvim Member Posts: 6

    Not to mention there isn't really a thriving crafting community in AoC, and the gear is considered starter gear by most.

  • jonchicoinejonchicoine Member Posts: 77

    Originally posted by Ogdin

    Aoc is f2p so they are generating all there income through the item store,Eve has a monthly sub fee.So not really comparable.

    duh! Forgot about that :)

     

    thanks

  • KabaalKabaal Member UncommonPosts: 3,042

    Originally posted by jonchicoine

    Why all the bitching about Eve's Online shop and non about AOC. It appears to me that you can now purchase a lot more than just vaniity items.... Armor , weapons, and more....

     

    what did i miss?

    Because the armors are PvP armors, most of the veteran PvP players are content that it is a way to let entry level players have a bit better chance of competing. Before they were introduced the difference between a PvP lvl 10 with loads of AA points and a fresh 80 was on the preposterous side. There is stil quite a gap between a full PvP 10 player and a PvP 1 wearing the cash shop PvP 5 gear, plus the PvP 1 still has to grind all 10 levels to wear the max armor anyway.

     

    For the new Blood & Glory server however they are almost game breaking.

  • CasualGamerCasualGamer Member Posts: 55

    I support microtransactions on free to play models. Dev/Publishers have to make money somehow. I'd prefer paying a monthly if that meant dynamic content that had nothing to do with virtual stuff.

  • DibdabsDibdabs Member RarePosts: 3,239

    The popular misconception that the outrage amongst Eve players was about vanity items being available via MT is totally wrong.  No-one gives a shit about vanity items in any game, be it a Sparkle Pony in WoW or the Lol-Monocle in Eve.   The more cynical players think it's pretty funny that some of the virtual items in Eve cost more than their real-life equivalents, but it just goes to show there's a mug born every minute because some people were stupid enough to buy an ingame vanity monocle for  $70-worth of Plex/Aurum.  Yep, SEVENTY US dollars.  Even Blizzard wouldn't dream of charging that!  :D

    The furore in the Eve community came about because CCP would not give an unequivocal, straight-forward answer to the question "WIll CCP ever sell game-changing non-vanity items?"  They evaded saying "no" for so long that the player-base grew ever more suspicious and then, frankly, extremely pissed off.  Eventually, after two laughably vague Blogs and the recent meeting in Iceland, CCP said "no" ...  but not many of us trust CCP anyway, in the long term,since only a year ago they said there were no plans to ever introduce MTto Eve in any form whatsoever.

  • jpnzjpnz Member Posts: 3,529

    Originally posted by Dibdabs

    The popular misconception that the outrage amongst Eve players was about vanity items being available via MT is totally wrong.  No-one gives a shit about vanity items in any game, be it a Sparkle Pony in WoW or the Lol-Monocle in Eve.   The more cynical players think it's pretty funny that some of the virtual items in Eve cost more than their real-life equivalents, but it just goes to show there's a mug born every minute because some people were stupid enough to buy an ingame vanity monocle for  $70-worth of Plex/Aurum.  Yep, SEVENTY US dollars.  Even Blizzard wouldn't dream of charging that!  :D

    The furore in the Eve community came about because CCP would not give an unequivocal, straight-forward answer to the question "WIll CCP ever sell game-changing non-vanity items?"  They evaded saying "no" for so long that the player-base grew ever more suspicious and then, frankly, extremely pissed off.  Eventually, after two laughably vague Blogs and the recent meeting in Iceland, CCP said "no" ...  but not many of us trust CCP anyway, in the long term,since only a year ago they said there were no plans to ever introduce MTto Eve in any form whatsoever.

    To clarify, CCP never said 'never' or 'no'. All they said was 'we do not have plans at this time'.

    http://www.gamereactor.eu/articles/8012/The+Mittani:+Solar+Spymaster/

    Interview of head of CSM 'The Mittani' explains why and a few other insights though.

    Gdemami -
    Informing people about your thoughts and impressions is not a review, it's a blog.

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