EVE General Discussion

Since I don't make at 300mill isk/hr using plex makes me feel like I'm working in eve for less than minimum wage.

No, because with PLEX I play for free.

Really this is an impossible question to answer.

Plex's serve two purposes to CCP and one to the game directly that I can think of.

A) Plex's provide a legal way to trade real currency for currency in game in order to prevent RMT illegally which causes account hacks, banning from the game, more rapid inflation since there will be more bots to produce isk for the RMT provider, etc. Ergo, it provides longevity to the game itself, and makes it slightly more popular.

B) It provides a nice little extra income for CCP. When plex are destroyed, the game time is destroyed along with it. In other words they make free money when this happens.

I pay by the year. I suck at Eve too much to make any meaningful isk out of it.


No, I'm not quitting and no,you can't have my stuff.

..and yet they complain when PLEX prices go up on the in-game market and ruin the economy? Filthy beggars! ..besides, it's still the people who are paying that end up paying, and that includes the difference. So you still give them nothing, aside from forum rants about your personal sense of entitlement.

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wait.. no.. okay, we are going to do this another way, as that is far to confrontational and possibly unfair.


So, yeah the guy paying sub is paying sub, and less if he is doing it all in one go a year. The guy, (or girl), who is paying sub and buying PLEX to assist in-game activities along without needing to grind as much is paying a little more for the in-game activities than the guy who subs and grinds.

Then there is the guy that grinds, or rather, the one that buys PLEX to sub in game without really needed to put in that much effort in most cases to get the ISK, because they either scam it, pod it, or have access to all the natural resources of the game without much effort. Some of them actually work for it.

So we have:

The guy/girl paying a sub plays, grinds a bit, and pays.

The guy paying a sub and buying PLEX plays, pays, and pays more. He's the one that gets hit with all the additional cost of PLEX.

The guy PLEXing doesn't pay, but he grinds to one degree or another.

In the end, we have a game balance achieved between all three, that ultimately gives CCP the money it needs to continue and maintain d'eve'lopment. This also allows the EVE Shard to maintain players in higher numbers than it might otherwise, while providing us with a rich detailed environment--we may not always like--of players to share the experience with.

..what?

What I am not sure whether to laugh at, dismiss, or feel bad about, is the poor guy grinding for PLEX to play the game, while smoking pot and not having the time of day to get a job or go out and make an effort. Is the grind really worth it? Maybe you should stop grinding for PLEX and go find a job, (not always as easy as it sounds I admit), while quitting your drug habits, (that surely make it harder to afford to get by for you), and come back when you are sober and a little more capable of taking care of your real self ffs.

..not that I'm unaware of how hard it can be to achieve all that sometimes, depending one where you are in the world and how bad the economy is. Ultimately however, the choice is yours and it is always a lot easier to achieve things when you are in a respectable fashion and taking care of yourself, and taking care of things. People see the difference and are much more likely to respect you for it and more willing to help make a difference for you.

100% quit.

Lol, the game would die within months.

The cute thing here is that you assume that 500m ISK is a lot for most ISK-grinders to reach each month.

That's 16.6m ISK per day. Mission runners sneeze that in an hour, excluding LP and salvage. Wormhole pilots get that just for remembering their EVE password.

If 16.6m ISK per day is a difficult process for you to sustain, on top of cooking, cleaning, and having a job/family then perhaps you should reevaluate your choice to play a video game with your ******* forehead.

I would still play only if my drake got 10 missile hardpoints and shield recharge rate was 1.5x current. Otherwise, I'd move on to WoW.

I haven't played wOw and i will not do it. I bought this game for real money, but since the first 2 months i pay in PLEX, because I can. It's my play style and a bit of luck here and there with loot. With today prices of PLEX i would do it probably in 3 or 4 months. Without PLEX I would't still play it, I think. I like GW2 model of selling game, and I like EVE model.