Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-7153552-20130403223900/@comment-7153552-20130530144432

In EVE you can pay the subscription cost normally. Or you can buy and sell isk (in-game credits) on websites - they made gold-selling legal, lol - which you can then buy game cards from the same web sites or in some stores for that real money. It's basically consolodating, from Neverwinter for the example, Gold, Astral Diamonds and Zen all into one currency.

So you do the work and the quests and the market trading in the game to earn your isk. You go to a web site where you sell your isk for the current real-world market value. You turn around and buy a pilot licecense (game time card) with said real-world money you just earned. Input code and play! Some sites bypass the second and third step and allow you to trade directly for isk. Then it's all meet in game, trade items, get code, move on with life!