Jita Park Speakers Corner

They have tripled in price if memory serves me right. CCP said when Plexes were first introduced they would monitor them and make changes when needed. When exactly is that? What is the threshold? Please look into this for us.

How do you know they haven't?

How do you know that the price couldn't actually have gone higher?

Or maybe CCP is jacking the prices up to make it more lucrative for people to buy plex in the first place....?

I would assume that they are monitoring the prices, that changes are not needed, and they will not reveal what the threshold is.

CCP would intervene if higher plex price cause money loss to them. As long as players are willing to buy PLEX and number of buyers is greater than number of players who left the game cause of high PLEX value, they have nothing to worry about.

Honestly who buys PLEX for ISK? Players who spend lot of time in game making ISK. If someone has daily habit to mine couple of hours, he will be angry if PLEX prices get higher, but at the end he will accept it as it is much easier than to change its daily habits.

It is us who cause PLEX prices to rise. If you want to lower its price, stop buying it.

Inflation is a normal market process, and its going on. When the times come PLEX 'll go down.
The real question is when it 'll happen? Why CCP doesn't deal with inflation?
Its not so hard, you just need to reduce ISK-income from missions, bounty etc. No, not remove it. Substitute bounty with other goods like modules.
Etc. lets remember NPC-drones. One time CCP have substitute alloys with bounty. Oke, no more minerals, good for miners. But new bounty cause inflation boost coz its new ISK-income conduit.

Supply and demand. The higher the price of plex goes, the more lucrative it is for people to buy them. The more lucrative it is to buy them, i.e. the more isk you get for your money, it's more likely that supply will increase to at least meet demand, if not depress prices. The other day plex prices dropped by 21m. I know because I was looking at buying a plex for 600m the night before, held ff and then bought one at 579m.

PLEX are just as much reliant on people willing to buy them in-game. If temporary spikes like say, FW farming, shoot prices up too high, they'll make sure they come back down "to Earth" with sales and the like. What the acceptable number is, who knows, I doubt it's a static thing.

Not that it's terribly relevant - my post was in response to someone saying CCP was artificially inflating the price of PLEX, when it's far better for them to let things change organically and only use sales etc to bring prices down when things aren't normal (like FW farming).

Sure, but if they're buying them with a source of income that's going to vanish soon (FW Farming), it's in their interest to not let the price get too out of control lest they discourage anyone who isn't taking advantage of FW from buying game time with PLEX (which is extra money for them), or set false expectations for anyone who decides to sell PLEX. Stability is really important to the whole thing.

That said, during "normal" times when income streams are more or less where they should be, it's totally in their interest to let the price do its own thing.