It’s more like a stock market. Everything actually has to be produced and moved around in the virtual world of the game, giving a hard limit to how many X exist, and you can sell these things for real money outside of the game. So destroying a competing corps goods is a good way of increasing the value of your own.
I was under the impression that you could only put real money into the game, not get it out.
You can spend real money to buy pilot license extensions (PLEX), which can be redeemed by the holder for 1 month of subscription time. You don’t have to redeem it right away, and PLEX can be sold to other players. So there is a USD to ISK exchange rate equivalent to the market value of PLEX, but you can’t turn PLEX back into dollars.
Ah, well the figures in the article aren’t based on any grey market stuff, so you’d have to look somewhere else to find out what the ISK-to-USD conversion looks like.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
It’s more like a stock market. Everything actually has to be produced and moved around in the virtual world of the game, giving a hard limit to how many X exist, and you can sell these things for real money outside of the game. So destroying a competing corps goods is a good way of increasing the value of your own.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I was under the impression that you could only put real money into the game, not get it out.
You can spend real money to buy pilot license extensions (PLEX), which can be redeemed by the holder for 1 month of subscription time. You don’t have to redeem it right away, and PLEX can be sold to other players. So there is a USD to ISK exchange rate equivalent to the market value of PLEX, but you can’t turn PLEX back into dollars.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
You do transactions for real money outside of the game and isn’t sanftioned by the dev.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Ah, well the figures in the article aren’t based on any grey market stuff, so you’d have to look somewhere else to find out what the ISK-to-USD conversion looks like.
Goretantath@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Like any MMO, join a AOL messenger chat and do the real trading there. How do you think gold sellers work?