Tund brings up a good point, if you absolutely want to bring this in please include an option for people to sell accounts.

How do you pay rent with your Steam wallet?

hmmm
wonder if this would be good news for miners and harvesters
lots of need for base materials to create items to sell on steam
and steam would certainly be the preferred market over the ingame AH - although some NIC would have to be generated too
doom and gloom for the games economy or...........

Like I said, if you want to do a steam marketplace, and take the 10% cut do it with deco cash shop items.

I mean youll have to do dev work, maybe make bot skins (different looking skins), paints kits with unique paint schemes, perhaps perp credits and boosters (make boosters an item) and put those up for the steam market.

The second you put stuff I can get in game on the market is the second you wipe out a big portion of play motivation.

Why bother making a mining fleet when I can pay $10 from my steam wallet to buy the ore....for example.

Also its incredibly bad press to have in game items for sale on an AH....diablo 3 is all you need to know about this, and that was the same concept...

Zoom as some one who seen the EVE influx & was in NEX when 100s of people were still angrily talking about what CCP had done both in corp chat & TS. Very few people are going to see a difference between the type of cash shops.

Personally I see it as no difference to what ICE would be used to do. BUT ICE vs Cash shop where you can buy trade  of buy in game items that are not cosmetic will be viewed in an entirely different light.

Its all about peoples perception.

If some one looks at the cash shop & sees its offers only cosmetic items & a ep boost. That wont bother most.

But if they go to the cash shop & see cosmetic, booster & the ability to buy ingame items with RL cash even tho those items are player made. alot of people will now see perpetuum as pay to win. Simple as that.

For that above reason & that lone i think what you DEVs are thinking is a bad idea in that a lot of gamers hate pay to win & will avoid P2W games.

make the Booster a in game trade-able item like ICE.

+1 i would like to cash out to.
^^ not trolling... what you DEVs are proposing will kill your game

True Pros make a Podcast to influence the Devs minds, 
The rest of you guys are Hacks

PS. I got my Highways & stopped playing b4 they came in & have never used them! ...... Irony much ?

I like the idea of trading a few billion nic worth of items to some hacker to go into some one elses account and delete everything, and then the hacker can steal the persons info and then turn around and destory their credit ratting. You know paying for reallife bountys with little pixels, sounds great to me.

RightO!  At this rate I could make literally tens of dollars overnight!!  Tens of Dollars!!  I could buy lunch!  Or get enough Gas in my car to go buy lunch!  Awesome Idea.  Stay at it Devs Thinking like this will take you places!

If this happens I will prob also just cash out my toons also. No need to play a game that is self cannibalizing as there are other f2p, b2p games that are equally worthy of my free time.

Instead of trying to create new sources of revenue, just improve those that are already existing. Give us a ****ing KICKSTARTER already.

I bought it in the last sale, it's definitely still EA but also fairly reminiscent of the original which is in my top 3 favorite RTS's of all time.  It requires an Uber account to play though which is not listed anywhere as a requirement and amounts to 3rd party DRM.  You literally cannot even play single player without signing in.  I reported the game to Valve for fraud for this reason because it's deliberately misleading to say "requires online to play" but not list anything as 3rd party DRM.

I'd wait for the Summer Sale if I were you.  I paid $30 and should probably have waited.

I bought it a little while ago. I need to play it again.

NO RMT.

Maybe thats their plan for making money with perp. Seems like itd be a whole lot easier just to add a proper cash shop tbh.