Market Discussions

PLEX have swung up 2-3% in the last 48 hours, quick, someone make a new thread about it, this one is out of date!



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"Crashing" is often thrown around when a price drops 2% on ships/mods too. You should start a topic about the Brutix drop in lowsec too.

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Buying Plex with RL money to sell, is just a means of giving ones self a boost. It is and has always still been profitable to trade around low-end items. Station trading or even cross-region trading is still viable. People do not need to buy plex. If they have no interest in trading than hopefully they run alot of missions. Manufacturing is meh, little margins if a user is new to the game and new to it. Even then they are better off just trading instead of manufacturing because that is essentially all they are doing, but for more time and he same margins or slightly worse. They have to watch the drops and rises of things to even make manufacturing worth it. So same effort, more time, same profit as trading in low-end items.

Its because 3/4 of null is napped and the isk is being optained easyer than before. EVE is dying


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At the moment I am not playing (only got 1 RL life and it's currently full ) so I can't check.

But if price is dipping it's good, because it proves EvE economy is still healthy.

When i started playing eve i started as most people with mining.You started mining in a frig , then a cruiser to eventually end up in the ulitmate mining ship , the apoc.So after having spend many many months i finally got myself the thing i started for , a raven , and i lost that ship within the time span of max 4 hours ''hello ecp and beybey ecp '' .

My mind was blown and i was gazing at the screen for minutes wich seemed hours ... and then it hit me , the frustration was higher then i had experienced in any other mmorpg/game i had ever played and eve got me hooked for years and years to come.


Why this story?Because that is how ''vets'' got hooked into eve but today's ''players'' mostly do the opposite.Any game that can give you a downfeeling is thrown in the corner because of it being '' too frustrating'' as you play to relax from rl stuff where as the oldschool/and to some extent the exeptional newbro plays to get the thrills wich rl lacks.

Take away the frustration from backstabbing / ganking / steeling asshats you meet in your eve carreer and you end up with a game as blend as the other mmorpgs.All of the former are playstyles i haven't done myself and i doubt i ever would because of ''eve-bushido'' but if it was ever removed from the game i would immediatly cancel all my accounts.

But then i'm sure that one day that will happen and CCP will be ''forced'' to adapt to the general boredom that is mmorpg's these days.

To be honest, considering base gameplay mechanics, EvE is worse than other gaming products on the markets be it MMOs or other types of games.

When you consider the interactions that you can have with other players in EvE, however... take this subforum for example, with all the loans and bonds and such... it's stuff like that that makes me play. Well, that and the skillqueue. Please help.

Absolutely not. Eve is not your 1 thru = MMO. You dont have 30 abilities to use in a certain order. Eve is not your 1-6 MMO either. Eve is in its own field. An entire economy completely user ran. Multiple possibilities to range for active and semi-active players. You can do many things under the tense of "Do-it-yourself" but why? Most people do not play computer (internet) video games to play by themselves. They play for the interaction. The biggest problem new people see when they start up is the effort that goes into starting. You are talking getting money with cheap or free ships. Buying your basic skills and training them. Without a mentor in this game, or people to play with. Starting up sucks. You could not ultimately simplify the mechanics for this game, if they did it would draw new people as it would push people away as well. People play for the diversity and complexity of this game. Everything now, for the most part requires more than yourself. Sure you can run missions solo, you can have an arsenal of alts for production/industrial stuff. Sure you can have an alt army for hauling, trading, etc. However the bigger picture of this game is not single-player friend. People are figuring this out and getting groups together to go run through lowsec. People are figuring this out as they go base out of low-sec or nullsec systems to enjoy a riskier PVE environment. Could you solo-do it all? Absolutely, I have done it. Boring as all hell though.

For PVP, you play against new people all the time. Always a new face to be shot at.
For Industrialists you have entire corporations that work together to help build stuff. Mining operations where people sit and chat while dumping ore into orcas. What else is there to do while mining other than interact with people there?
For mission runners, alot of new people start off in corps that run missions with them. They may be salvaging stuff as they go. But they have people to play with, to help guide them.

The users who most of the time do not stick around do not put the effort into the MMO portion of the game. They try to do single-player while figuring it out. Which ultimately leads to most also uninstalling after a week or the trial.

The bubble is very real. The only people saying that it is not are the ones who invested deeply in plex. Just like all the morons who bought apple stock at it's highest prices right before iphone 5 came out only to have that bubble burst with in days.

The plex bubble will in deed burst anyone who says otherwise is only trying not to lose there ass on the plex they bought as investment.

Bobby is too much busy with making tea these days it seems .

TIL the market for PLEX is perfectly inelastic.