Topic: Why Perp needs a plex-type system
My time in Perp is coming to an end after almost a year and a half. I don't want to discuss why. There's no point to it. I'll just leave it at the game has become more frustrating than fun. The point I do want to make is this:
I had an active account in EVE for 5 years starting shortly after launch. It is also the only game in 14 years of playing MMOs (starting with the Asheron's Call beta 0) that I ever returned to after leaving it to play something else. Of those 5 years, I actually only played 4 years - I played 3, then took a year break to play another mmo, then played EVE for another year. The reason I came back instead of moving on again was because I still had an active account and the reason I still had an active account was because the last thing I did before I left the first time was use my accumulated isk to buy time codes (I was leaving so I didn't need the isk any more, so what the hell).
When the game I left EVE for got played out after a year, my EVE account was still active, so instead of moving on to yet another game, I ended up going back to EVE and playing for another year. In fact having the account stay active while I was gone was an incentive to return, if for no other reason than to try out the new skills that had been added in the time I was gone.
So, instead of getting 3 years worth of cash from my subs, which would have been all had I stopped subbing after 3 years, CCP got 5 years worth of money for my account. The Perp dev team can use all the subs they can get to keep this game going. A plex system would certainly get them more than they would have otherwise.
Just my $.02