EVE General Discussion

With plex cards hitting 450mil now, its beyond what i'm personally willing to pay for one now, just curious what some other people think about this situation. With the so called "expansion" comming there is still no excuse in my book for such a recidulas price increase from a month ago when everyone was about to rage quit !! and all of a sudden, "we're focusing more on space" announcment and all is forgiven? Considering CCP said that they were going to monitor the prices of plex cards so that WHATS happening WOULDN'T happen, makes me believe in them less a bit now.

But what do people think about the ever rising of plex cards, when the game time you get from one stays the same?

CCP Does not create Plex. CCP does not set the ISK price of Plex. CCP does not control the # of plexes sold on the market.

Any player can convert $15 into 1 plex at any time. This is the only way to create a plex. You are paying 450mil ISK for someone else's $15 dollars.

If less people spend $15 for a plex, then there are less plexes and the price goes up.
If people are able to make more than 450mil a month then prices go up, for plex.

if u cant make 450 a month in eve ur doin it wrong

Although this is probably a bad example, if CCP were to step in and regulate the prices why not have them step in regulate all the prices so new pilots can easily get into new ships? See the problem? You can't have a sandbox market, telling pilots it's regulated by their own supply and demand and then step in and tell them oohh sorry that is to expensive you can't sell it for that much.

My answer to your original question would be "When you no longer pay for it."

Treat Plex like you would treat anything else on a market. If it is to expensive for your taste don't buy it. Enough people do the same and the prices will drop naturally unless people keep buying it.

There are many, many people that have no choice but to buy in-game plex to play the game.
They will continue to pay the market prices.

In the scheme of things, 450, 500, or even 600M a month/account is not a lot if you have established chars.
If you have newer chars, and can't generate that in-game cash flow, well, time to find another game, unfortunately.

BTW, I am one of those people who have no choice but to pay with in-game ISK.

If PLEX become too much isk for you, start paying with your real money instead.

Making 15 bucks really isn't that hard. I find it amusing that you talk about what you're ''willing'' to pay as if paying ISK to play a game somehow took money from your mortage payment. If you're spending more than 1.5 hours grinding to pay for a PLEX in ISK, you're actually paying more than 15$ per month to play EVE.

Thanks a lot for the replys peeps, its really interesting to hear other peoples views about it, i mean back in the day a 30day time card would cost 98mil.. now its aproaching 500mil lol.... Azure you raised a good point, the moment ccp steps in for one thing, then why stop there? your 100% right and i didn't think about that part of it, be naive of me.

well do any of you think their grossly overpriced? or do you think its normal, just the way the game works? do you think its OKAY to pay that sort of isk for plex card?

450mil is definitely doable in a month, never said it wasn't, but just because we can make that a month, does that really mean its still okay to charge that? i remember seeing simular threads when the prices went up to 350 mil or so, for me though 450mil is the border point i just simply wont cross myself, if i cant scrounge up $15 a month for a game i rarely play as it is right now, as Dinsdale pointed out, i'll just find another game to play, but i do wonder just how many others out there think along the same lines i do, i've been playing this game for 6/7 years now and some things in the game especialyl what happened over the summer is just getting rediculas for 450mil a month

Some people actually play EVE as a GAME you know. Saying people are suckers for playing the game rather then paying 15 dollars for ISK is hilarious to me.

What part of 'supply and demand' do you not understand?