Scuffles

............. And this is why I continue to HATE EA, every and I stress EVER time I am about to give them the benefit of the doubt ans say "OK EA I know we haven't seen eye to eye in years but I'm willing to overlook that " they pull some crap like this.

Looks like I shall not be an EA customer for at least another year, congrats EA.

@Cavadus

I have no idea why, funcom doesn't really ring any specific bells but I instinctively Excalibur faced when I read the name ....

Seriously no freaking clue.... to the google mobile!

@Granger

possible, but it would give a nice venue for their yearly antics to date and you never know there could be some dark horse candidate that comes out of the blue that wins most despicable.

..... still you're probably right, EA, Acti and Ubi ~.~

@KinseySS

Maybe some of the blogs should get together and create their own Gaming Industry list of shame. Where we can vote and watch our most hated game dev/pubs duke it out for top dishonors.

@manbearchef

I guess thats why I don't really have any major issues with GS. I never (and I stress NEVER) trade anything in and the only time they exist to me is during a BXGY sale ($3-5 off a recent release.... might as well buy NEW). Stopped visiting their brick and mortars quite some time ago, unless absolutely necessary.

Perhaps years of loathing EA have slightly jaded me (who knows) but this brought a smile to my heart

Its times like this that I regret having not learned Japanese.

@Mode7James

Think your missing the main point, that PLEX is not an in game currency.

"EVE Online Players can use in-game currency to pay for real-life graphics cards"

No, no they can not. Unless they manage to broker a deal with other players who have purchased PLEX who will exchange it for their ISK. However no amount of ISK (the in game currency of EVE) will ever net you this card if you can not broker a deal for PLEX.

I'm not saying its impossible, there are plenty of players who can bring in a billion+ ISK in a few weeks to a month and there are probably quite a few players who have piles of spare PLEX (years worth) sitting around who would trade them for the ISK. But ISK (in-game currency) alone will get you exactly nowhere.

Anyhow like I said initially, I tip my hat to CCP this is shrewd business :)

@BrainZero

Technically it does apply to the F2P business model, at least to the smarter F2P Dev/Pub/Portals. The smart ones already make the perks something that players can trade in game. Because they realize a transaction is a transaction regardless and allowing players to trade cash shop gear drives transactions up.

...... Except PLEX is not in game currency, how many times must we go over this bloggers ~.~

If I walked up to CCP and tried to hand them 9+ Billion ISK (In game currency and about what the plex will cost) in exchange for one of these cards I would be asked to leave and never return.

Yes as a point of technicality you can exchange ISK (in game currency) for PLEX (Not in game currency) and use that PLEX to get one of these cards.

Plex is ~2/$34 so they are selling these ~$200 cards for ~$340 (shipping included, I should totally apply them for sainthood), just pointing that out before everyone goes all "but they're free!" Nope, someone somewhere is overpaying for them :)

This is arguably a shrewd business move to mop up the PLEX that has been slowly accumulating on the servers over the years and I do commend them on that.