Comment by shkkmo
4 years ago
> It was an interesting system, I don't know what their monetization looks like now.
It works more or less the same, but now with an expanded F2P option that provides access to only early ships / skills (and some other limits). The PLEX is now used to pay for an account to have full access to the game for a month.
Well really it's that you pay for Skill Points now, because a subscription is almost free if you extract and sell the skill points earned.
Allowing RMT would ruin the economy because as a small guy I can generate $1050 in profit per month if you convert 500 Plex to cash at $20, although the black market rate is closer to $7. If I could generate real money then I would play more than 1 hour a day, I would probably quadruple my industrial operation and then everything is massively inflated in price locking out casual players from the gameplay they want, and the margins on a lot of items would decrease meaning you have to make up for it in volume, except a casual player isn't going to be running 30 accounts.