CCP has heard the cry of it's players about the removal of the 30 day ETC (EvE Time Code). We had the opportunity to talk with CCP about this new ability to split EvE time codes and sell them or give them to other players. We discuss all of this in the video. Below is a quote from their site.

ETC secure transfers made easier, more accessible and ingame

We‘ve had the secure transfer mechanism for almost 2 years now. Players have been able to exchange their EVE Gametime Codes (ETC) to other players for ISK through the account management pages and now more than 30 thousand players utilizing it on a regular basis.

We felt it was time to move forward with it--do another iteration to make it much easier and accessible exchange ISK for game time. The current situation has a series of flaws with it which we hope to address, while at the same time opening up totally new ground for current and potential EVE players.

With this new approach, you can take your run of the mill ETC code and enter it in-game through the escape menu, converting it into two in-game items called “CONCORD 30 Day Pilot License”. You can then put them directly on to the market or into a contract! This means:

Benefit to you as a player

• Lower barrier of entry for exchanging ETCs. Everybody can do it easily in-game
• ETCs now use a transparent and efficient market, our very own EVE market
• Fights price fixing--one of the single most complained about issues with the current secure exchange
• Opens up for a larger supply, lowering the ISK exchange rate in the long run as anyone can exchange their ETCs more easily
• Enables you to create corporate Contracts for your members in exchange for Pilot Licenses
• Empowers you to recruit new players on trial into your corporations with Pilot Licenses
• Allows you to give someone a “free beer” (I like this part)
• Cramps down on RMTs (Real Money Traders) style with a kill and a smile
• It‘s pure awesome

Benefits to EVE and CCP

• Cramps down on RMTs style with a kill and a smile
• More and better options for you means more of you and your friends are able to play EVE. That means more subscriptions for EVE, meaning more yardwarre and larger EVE expansions
• Provides a 30-day option while addressing our internal issues with the old 30-day ETCs
• Has the potential to increase monetary velocity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Velocity)

But we are aware of the drawbacks here, such as:

• A larger supply and demand could also increase prices
• Potential immersion breaker, we’re sure you can look past it
• For safety reasons, the Pilot License can‘t leave a station, so you have to create the location you want to exchange it at
• The Pilot License can‘t enter any form of container
• It‘s pure evil

CONCORD 30 Day Pilot License

The 30-day renewable license pioneered by CONCORD is an alternative to its pod pilot contract license. Pilots on this new renewal scheme can purchase license extensions for ISK and thereby forgo the need for a contract altogether.

This item extends your gametime by 30 days when activated. It cannot leave stations but can be traded on the market and through contracts, except via courier.

You might also wonder why it‘s a 30-day license, given our recent move to 60-day ETCs. That‘s quite simple. We needed a single unit which easily mapped to most of our ETCs. While this leaves out the 50 and 100 day ETCs, the rest divide quite nicely with the time-length of the pilot’s license.

We are going to try this out in the next couple of months and see what the results are. You should see this in Quantum Rise or shortly following it. I personally think that it will enable a lot of people to continue to play EVE despite the current world economy and enable others, that could never pay 15 USD in foreign currency but have time to play, to start playing EVE. Like this one time, in Iceland camp, it‘s almost impossible to get foreign currency. 15 USD would buy me a case of beer whereas previously it would get my voracious liver only one.

Giving players a more robust system to exchange game-time for ISK is something we also deem necessary as a result of abuse, exploitation, fraud and hard core companies trying to sell you ISK directly. In the end, this only hurts you the customer and therefore the universe of EVE.

We must continue to battle this and it‘s time for a new strategy. We see what the secure trade of ETCs between players did and we want to investigate ways of making that easier by enable all players to trade amongst themselves directly. If the key to battling RMT is to allow players to casually and securely exchange gametime for ISK, thereby neutralizing RMT companies as a necessary supply, then that is an acceptable, necessary evil.

We ask you, “don‘t hate, participate” in this endeavour.

Source

Shattered Crystal