EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game

An anonymous reader writes "Massively.com has reported that an EVE Online player recently lost over $1,200 worth of in-game items during a pirate attack. The player in question was carrying 74 PLEX in their ship's cargo hold — in-game 'Pilot's License Extensions' that award 30 days of EVE Online time when used on your account. When the ship was blown up by another player, all 74 PLEX were destroyed in the resulting blast, costing $1,200 worth of damage, or over 6 years of EVE subscription time, however you prefer to count it. Ow."

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CCP? ISK? PLEX? Can someone maybe translate this into English? Or at least give some sort of three line tutorial so those of us who've never ventured into the game can at least know what's going on. That article is clearly written for people who play the game regularly. If you want me to be indignant, angry, belligerent, uncaring, etc. about it I'd like to at least understand what's going on.

Help?

Seriously?

The summary here on Slashdot explains what a PLEX is pretty clearly.

The player in question was carrying 74 PLEX in their ship's cargo hold — in-game 'Pilot's License Extensions' that award 30 days of EVE Online time when used on your account.

It is certainly true that neither "CCP" nor "ISK" are explicitly defined anywhere...

But you could probably infer what both of them are just from the context in the article.

Like many MMOs, EVE Online has a problem with players buying ISK from shady websites to short-cut the ISK-making process. On the other end of the spectrum, many players are great at making ISK but unable to afford the monthly subscription.

This strongly suggests that ISK are some kind of in-game currency, like gold or rupees or gil or whatever else.

To kill two birds with one stone, CCP created PLEX. Sixty-day game time codes purchased for cash can be converted into two 30-day Pilots License Extensions, which become items in the game.

This suggests that CCP created PLEX - an in-game item that is redeemable for subscription time. So it must be somebody with the authority to create in-game items and redeem subscription time. Either the game's publisher or developer.

I mean, really... As far as Slashdot summaries go, this one is pretty damn good. And if you go read the article (which you had to do, because neither CCP nor ISK appears anywhere in the summary) it's fairly clear what they're talking about from the context.