Market Discussions

Id like to admit that I know how people make money off of plex, id also like to add, these people put trillions of ISK into the plex market to make countable ISK.

there is so much confusion and advertisements on what to invest in.

CCP selling PLEX is not for isk, it is for real money.

When PLEX prices rise to fast CCP has a PLEX sale. This is when you can buy PLEX for $15-17 each rather than the normal $19.95. When they do this there is a surge of players that but them to sell in Game while the Prices are high.

If you are the type of player to spend real money buying PLEX to sell in game rather than grinding isk when is the best time to do that? When will you get the maximum isk for your dollar? Obviously when PLEX prices in game are high. Then when CCP has a sale you get even more isk for your dollar. there are many players that do this, I do it myself when I need isk and do not have much time to grind it ingame. I do not do it often but when ever I see PLEX prices skyrocket I watch the CCP site for a sale. If I can buy some cheap PLEX and sell it in game at the inflated prices that is when I will do it.

The only trick is the timing, sell them before the prices drop. The window is usually very small. Generally when CCP has a PLEX sale the price of PLEX in game starts droping within hours of the sale starting.

Oh, they'll do that too, if selling them for real cash to players doesnt work.

Its a nice market, and CCP is going to make sure it stays that way.

[hypothetical] If the very rich decide to make a pact and raise plex prices to 4B isk p/u, then whats going to hapten is, many accounts will close down, demand will utterly be obliterated within a very short time, the entire landscape of the game will change and those who would drive prices in that nature will be branded destructive trolls before something like that would hapten.

So I wouldn't be surprised if CCP stepped in before enough damage could be done and put a crushing hammer down to stabalize the marketplace, player count and a key commodity supply and demand..

Think of it as having a currency not being backed up by gold or silver, compared to a currency that you could take to the bank and walk out with pure gold/silver/copper.

Obviously, every one by default wants the commodity driver currency instead of something similar to modern (severely corrupt) communism.

If eve was the only game in existence, then that might fly, player count is fought over, with advertisements and heavy investment into Dev paychecks so they can continue working on making the company more customers through quality.

and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what should be driving the value of ISK and PLEX, instead of the very few, greedy and corruption driven types.

It's a bit more complicate than this, and you have to notice how CCP has (rightly) put enormous importance on the velocity of money, on impact of large traders on that market and on a phenomenon that at CCP (rightly enough, *for their interests*) don't seem to like: the natural formation of heads and shoulders / double tops that most know as "speculation bubbles".

Regular people and CCP fear those natural market structures and will put dampeners on them for various reasons, including preventing temporary shocks in subscriptions numbers.

The others, instead, make a killing on them.

CCP has already intervened once. https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2483330

If the price spikes too high too fast, it's a good bet they'll do it again.