EVE General Discussion

Explain and prove please.

Its only 4 months into this year, and its already at +17%.

Still waiting on your source and calculation to get to that 17%. Once you get that we can see how you want your particular dataset calculated. Alternatively you can just calc it up yourself and I've provided the places you are most likely to find a spike over a 4 month period.

When the game is stagnating people are unlikely to invest cash to convert PLEX to ISK.

Also at the same time people are also less keen on spending money on a subscription so slowly burn through their ISK reserves (like me) until something interesting is happening. If nothing happens in the end I have at least got the most out of the ingame assets I had.

look at the data for plex prices, there's a perod of rapid growth followed by a period of almost non existent growth, then that trend repeats.

eg start of oct 2011 it was ~380m/plex, by nearly the end of november it was 500m/plex. that's 20% in 2 months.
so this kind of rapid short term growth isn't unprecidented at all.

oh look, those 2011 numbers, the same numbers i found. glad i'm not alone.

You are right. It may yet even out.

Unfortunately those previous years figures represent the entire year, and not a 4month period, so there is no direct and valid comparison.

We shall see by this time next year, whether that rate of PLEX inflation has been exceeded or not.



Note:For an entire year, as calculated at the end of it.
Not for the first 4 months of it.

So the 23% you presented is not an average growth, per year, over those three years?
Because that is what I interpreted it as. So no need to correct me if so.

A few points:

1: What "methods" do you propose that CCP is using to inflate PLEX prices, and what proof do you have of this?

2: Why would they do such a thing when it would be detrimental to their bottom line? PLEX sales are more profitable than subscriptions, so lower cost in ISK to buy a PLEX encourages more people to use them to keep their account active.

3: You do realize that more people are converting PLEX into AURUM now right? Because people like to paint their ships. This raises demand above the norm, thus raising PLEX prices, not to mention speculation based on this fact.

Basically all you have pointed out is that the PLEX market is very healthy, and that this is also a strong indication that the possibility of ship painting development continuing is very strong indeed. Of course CCP has all of the metrics, but if PLEX prices are rising this sharply in the last couple of months, then demand has increased sharply as well.

This is great for CCP (not the higher prices, as that doesn't help them at all, but rather the higher demand) and it's great for us.

doesn't matter what you interpret it at. working at the assumption that the price of plex is constantly increasing, that constant is 23% per year.

The longterm norm for a 4 month period is 7.3%.

However, it varies wildly about that, dropping a bit in some 4-month periods, ballooning in others. The recent increase is not the largest, although it's up there.