EVE Online players destroyed 1,142,260,784,813,930 ISK worth of ships in 2025, which according to my caveman-level maths amounts to over $6 million lost to the void

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• eleijeep@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Is this game a casino?

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    a casino with a subscription

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