Tuesday, March 27th 2012
EVE Online Players Can Use In-Game Currency to Pay For Graphics Cards
Joystiq is reporting that CCP Games, the developer behind EVE Online, has struck a deal with NVIDIA for players to use in-game currency -- PLEX -- to purchase GeForce 560 GTX graphics cards, which run almost $200 at retail. That's fake money for real items, folks. NVIDIA and CCP will start by selling 100 graphics cards (limit one per EVE account) to test the demand. After CCP announced its NVIDIA deal, the in-game price of PLEX jumped "significantly," CCP said. PLEX (Pilot License Extension) is an in-game currency that can be used to pay for 30-day EVE subscriptions. PLEX can be purchased with ISK, EVE's main currency that can be earned throughout the game, meaning some dedicated players end up with a free subscription each month. Now they may end up with a "free" graphics card as well.
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Joystiq
31 Comments on EVE Online Players Can Use In-Game Currency to Pay For Graphics Cards
i see it like a marketing gimmick just to have more subscribed players;you will need years to save the game currency if your statement is correct ref.14$ ...or you pay monthly the cash for subscription and in 1 year you will have maybe the needed credit to buy it;but till than the gtx560 will cost less than you invested... so who win? "EVE" of course...
BUT, if you've been playign eve for years and have been paying a subscription, you may have 200$ worth of in game creds already and can buy the card instantly.
So while they may have started the deal to entice new people to get the game, it really is only those already playing that can benefit from the program. I mean based on the 14$ a month earn rate you listed it would take 14.5 months to earn the card. By that time the card will be so out of date it won't be worth anywhere near 200$. Of course they could change the card as new ones become available.
titans only cost about 80 bil, and they take a month to farm.