It's a little funny that the PLEX system came about as part of CCP's war on RMT, as it has now become the template for one of the biggest forms of RMT in the industry.
#EVE PLEX FOR FREE#
Now anyone can effectively play EVE for free by buying a PLEX each month from the in-game market or purchase ISK for cash by selling PLEX on the in-game market.
#EVE PLEX LICENSE#
There was some complaint at the time that this was essentially the same as buying and selling ISK, but players quickly got used to the idea because the ISK was coming from ordinary players.īefore long, CCP streamlined the process with the introduction of the PLEX, an in-game license item that represents 30 days of pre-purchased game time.
#EVE PLEX CODE#
With game time code sales no longer restricted to black-market deals, players were free to trade them more securely on the forum. People had been doing this for months at the time, and there was no real way to police it, so developers decided to support it. The PLEX system started life as a GM ruling that allowed any player to pay for another's game time in exchange for in-game ISK. In this week's EVE Evolved, I look at why players find PLEX so much more palatable than direct item sales and ask whether the system fits the definition of pay-to-win. That's certainly true, but is that the same as buying an unfair advantage and does it necessarily make EVE pay-to-win? The crux of the argument was that an EVE player can currently take out his wallet and buy his way into a bigger ship or even pick up a pre-trained veteran character. In his latest Free for All column, Massively's Beau Hindman tackled the controversial issue of MMOs selling power for real cash, and his points about EVE Online sparked some pretty interesting discussion in the comments. Today's players have grown up with and embraced ideas like the free-to-play business model, microtransaction shops, and perhaps even the idea of buying in-game advantages for cash. The past decade of development has changed the MMO landscape and brought in a new generation of gamers with different attitudes. RMT was the devil, and players who bought swords or spaceships for cash deserved nothing short of a permanent ban.
Several years ago, the subscription model was king and the mere mention of an MMO selling in-game items for cash was almost enough to cause a virtual riot.
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