EVE Online Players: Want an Nvidia GTX 560TI? Get your ISKs and PLEXes out! (Joystiq)

[Quantos]

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/26/eve-online-players-can-use-in-game-currency-to-pay-for-real-life/

Play vidyagames, get real stuff for vidyagames: That's how the EVE Online PLEX-for-graphics-cards thing works. Good night, everyone!

OK, fine, in more detail this time: CCP Games, the developer behind EVE Online, has struck a deal with Nvidia for players to use in-game currency -- PLEX -- to purchase GeForce 560 GTX graphics cards, which run almost $200 at retail. That's fake money for real items, folks. Nvidia and CCP will start by selling 100 graphics cards (limit one per EVE account) to test the demand. After CCP announced its Nvidia deal, the in-game price of PLEX jumped "significantly," CCP said.

PLEX (Pilot License Extension) is an in-game currency that can be used to pay for 30-day EVE subscriptions. PLEX can be purchased with ISK, EVE's main currency that can be earned throughout the game, meaning some dedicated players end up with a free subscription each month. Now they may end up with a "free" graphics card as well.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Too bad the value of the plex is more than the card

 

[Wyndru]

Interesting.

Is it possible to bot in EVE? Is PLEX hard to come by in the game?

 

[KaOTiK]

This is interesting for those of us with tons of isk. So around 9-10b and I can get a need for a new one atm, I could sell the card, hmmm need to run the numbers.

 

[Red Storm]

Interesting.

Is it possible to bot in EVE? Is PLEX hard to come by in the game?

It certainly is possible, though not allowed. I knew a guy who had a fleet of alt characters that just mined ore all day & all night, making him a ton of in-game money.

What's PLEX going for in the EVE market today anyway?

 

[KaOTiK]

It certainly is possible, though not allowed. I knew a guy who had a fleet of alt characters that just mined ore all day & all night, making him a ton of in-game money.

What's PLEX going for in the EVE market today anyway?

Around 490m give or take 20m depending on region.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Each plex is worth 20 dollars
20 Plex for 1 video card.

400 dollars for a GTX560.

You would be better off selling the plex for real money and using that to buy the card with leftover.

 

[KaOTiK]

Each plex is $17.50 actually

Finding people to buy said plex for cash can be difficult at times.
I never said it was the best solution to making some cash, hell it is a one shot deal, but it is a decent option for those with a lot of isk.

 

[ichy]

Sloppy reporting. ISK is the in-game currency, PLEX can be bought with ISK.