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Any time used to achieve things in real life > time spent playing computer games.

If you're playing computer games anyway, instead of helping remote African communities establish clean drinking water supplies and fighting malaria or AIDS, you may as well invest your imaginary money in the great PLEX churner and double it every week.

I think this idea about it supporting ccp or not is kind of silly.


Look at it more from thier perspective:


Hight Prices:

People will buy plex more often with real life money. Right? Nope. As those needing isk now buy less plex for the same items.

Those running on accounts that use ingame money instead of real life money to subscribe start falling off as some won't be able to keep up with the rising cost to do it every month. They either start paying or they go away. If they go away it creates less demand on the plex and ccp has ran off someone who is not willing to pay for the game. This is what drives the prices back down. It has to tip past the breaking point of those falling off v.s. incomming supply. Also less join in on this action when prices are high.


Low Prices:

People will buy less plex with real life money. Right? Nope. This will vary as those who buy plex with real life money might need more plex to get the isk they needed. This can make prices continue to fall.

The other side of low prices is more people start using plex to subscribe instead of using real money. This will continue to happen until the breaking point of where people using subscribe way out number the supply and seen value in plex v.s. real money.

CCP makes roughly the same isk either way. They won't mess with this too much unless they absolutely have to.


For those of you trying to predict the future:

The answer is simple: Follow the over all global markets.
As money becomes easier to get due to more poeple working and less unemployment isk prices will rise.
When less people are unemployeed many will stop playing ever 24/7 and will start paying with real cash instead of isk.
Although some have been long term and have plex that will last for damn near ever.


Another thing to think about:

Plex prices going up are a great sign for the planet as a whole.
If the price of plex in real life goes up along with in game plex prices: it is not due to global growth. Due to pure inflation not economic growth.

The Global Markets determine the plex economy in game.
Eve's plex market might just be the best real life indicators of global growth.

speaking personally. I can't wait till prices go up by another 200 or more.

I hope that's directed at others because I'm not the one that's been using the idea of "interest" as anything other than drawing parallels to other people using the word interest.

Gold doesn't have a "locked in worth". It's a commodity, like iron ore, oil, or frozen orange juice concentrate.

Nothing in this world has a "locked in worth". Gold is subject to the same laws of supply and demand as any other commodity.