121233-an-innovative-new-business-model-idea

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That's not the rude part.

That was.


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So.... explain to me how the customers are treated differently based on how they pay for the game? While you're at it, explain how someone farming enough plat each month to buy a CREDD is detrimental to others play. I just honestly don't get this part: " CREDD for plat incentivizes free play for players who drive paying customers out by locking down the AH, the CX, PvP, and everything else of value that they can lock down." Who's locking down what? How can you even say that people are "locking down" the AH and CX, there's no way to know who's selling what items? How does someone "lock down" PVP anyway?


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Um... Carbine earns $20 for each CREDD purchased. It doesn't even matter if someone consumes it, they get their money before that CREDD ever hits the vendor to be bought for plat. So, again, how is Carbine gaining no value from the person farming plat? Those people are providing the "demand" in the whole "supply and demand" chain. Without the demand, the supply would dwindle, and Carbine would make less money.


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They don't make the plat. Carbine makes the plat. They are not the supply. At best, they are the limit on the supply. That limit can be readily automated.

Your presence was not paid for by cash. The person who spent that cash spent it to buy plat. Carbine created the plat that they bought, not you. They didn't need you to farm it and deposit it into the CREDD exchange. They could do that directly very straightforwardly.

The goal is to separate plat from earning a subscription, because you can earn plat by doing things like destroying PvP through booster-driven extortion, or manipulating the market to create speculation-driven inflation. Those are not good things. Doing them should not be a way for you to earn your CREDD. As for revenue loss, I'm not seeing it. The cash subscribers continue to pay cash for their subscriptions. The people buying plat for cash continue to have plat to buy for cash. And the people who don't want to pay a subscription fee now earn that by simply providing some service until they've put in the time, then can go do whatever they want. The only thing that's changing is the thing that people who don't want to pay a subscription fee do to earn the CREDD token.

You do understand that people who buy the CREDD token to pay for their subscription have to do something to earn it, right? They pay for it with plat that they farm.


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I think he stockpiles his likes and delivers them in machine gun fashion ;) On topic: Yasfan, I am thinking you are misunderstanding a serious point in the whole CREDD thing, and apparently have a serious chip on your shoulder about "plat farmers." I wonder if this chip also carries over onto people who choose to farm their own mats vs buying off the AH. What's the difference, really?


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