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Not another rant about plex price
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Anne Dieu-le-veut
Natl Assn for the Advancement of Criminal People
#21 - 2015-06-30 19:57:00 UTC
Hilti Enaka wrote:

At what does it become financially better to plex with real money?


Current in game sell price about 800M give or take. Even if you only make $10 USD/hour, that's two hours work to buy one...can you make 400M/hour in game? Do you enjoy doing what you do to earn ISK, or is it "work"?
Marech Bhayanaka
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#22 - 2015-06-30 20:44:57 UTC
DaReaper wrote:

Explore get a cloaky ship (cost you like maybe 60m) and go hack or anaylze sites, with luck you cna net 400m+ in a matter of mins.

An excellent example of how irrelevant or out of touch some of the postings in this thread are. This one time in a hundred (or less, probably) payout in no way helps anyone understand how many hours off exploration it will take you to Plex your account. (Hint: it isn't three sites, and it isn't ten minutes per day either.)

Marech.
Angelica Dreamstar
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2015-06-30 20:53:38 UTC
PLEX converted to AUR for SKINs?

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Anthar Thebess
#24 - 2015-06-30 21:10:49 UTC
1. Speculation.
People have tons of them - we have people that have triliards of isk
2. CCP like high plex price , it limits RMT
3. All new shiny stuff for plex ... cough ... arum

The funny part is that when plex was around 300-400mil we had almost 40k people online.

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#25 - 2015-06-30 21:13:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
0bama Barack Hussein wrote:
but what I really fear is the day when there are more (hardcore and dedicated fans) buying PLEX, than people using them to sub their accounts.
You fear for who? Those that can't afford to put in the time to raise the ISK to buy one? Or CCP?

In CCPs case they make more money from the purchase of a PLEX than they do from the purchase of a 1 month subscription, they certainly aren't going to be worried about it financially. The only worry for CCP is people dumping their stockpiles, because they raise no new revenue from products that have been purchased in the past.

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Kaivar Lancer
Doomheim
#26 - 2015-06-30 21:22:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Kaivar Lancer
High PLEX prices are a godsend for PVPers. If you're care-bearing and pay your account with PLEX, I feel sorry for you.
Leoric Firesword
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#27 - 2015-06-30 21:31:16 UTC
Hilti Enaka wrote:
This is not a rant but an question as to why plex has become so expensive?

User numbers down?
everyone is space rich?

At what does it become financially better to plex with real money?


Alliance Tournament, you buy in with Plex, lots of people try to buy in :)
Hal Morsh
Doomheim
#28 - 2015-06-30 21:34:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Hal Morsh
Jenn aSide wrote:

The version where mental illness is treated with medication.



What are you trying to say?



Paranoid Loyd wrote:
#nopoors



I'm broke in EVE. Always.


Kaivar Lancer wrote:
High PLEX prices are a godsend for PVPers. If you're care-bearing and pay your account with PLEX, I feel sorry for you.



I am worse than that "terribleateverything" guy at PVP. Buying plex to play the game PVP only is also out of the question ESPECCIALLY because I suck at it. I stick with my 15$ a month usually and so I just derp about EVE most of the time doing random things, then again I'm usually high so it's more fun.

Oh, I perfectly understand, Hal Morsh — a mission like this requires courage, skill, and heroism… qualities you are clearly lacking. Have you forgotten you're one of the bloody immortals!?
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#29 - 2015-06-30 22:16:03 UTC
Jenn aSide wrote:
Dead Horse

PLEX is 29 million isk per day right now. Their are high sec missions and null anomalies that pay this amount of isk and more and none of them take more than 10-15 minutes in a tech1 BS or tech3 cruiser. A single high sec incursion HQ site that takes between 8 and 14 minutes pays 31.5 mil (Plus another 7 mil worth of CONCORD LP).

If you can't spend 10 minutes out of a day to gain 24 hours of 'free' access to a video game you shouldn't be using plex in the 1st place, making any discussion of it's rising price completely moot.

/Dead Horse


I liked it better when it was 4mil per day Lol

I just pay my sub, sure I can grind a plex in a few hours, but then I feel like I have to play, and I don't like that.

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Jayden Thomas
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#30 - 2015-06-30 22:24:56 UTC
PLEX should only and explicitly be used for game time, and not redeemable for anything else. For those of us unable or unwilling to sub with real money, PLEX prices will slowly and surely force us out of the game.
Cyborg Girl86
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#31 - 2015-06-30 22:39:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Cyborg Girl86
Hal Morsh wrote:
I am worse than that "terribleateverything" guy at PVP. Buying plex to play the game PVP only is also out of the question ESPECCIALLY because I suck at it. I stick with my 15$ a month usually and so I just derp about EVE most of the time doing random things, then again I'm usually high so it's more fun.


I don't know why but this made me lol. The way you pictured yourself playing was hilarious Lol
Mina Sebiestar
Minmatar Inner Space Conglomerate
#32 - 2015-06-30 23:04:12 UTC
1y sub if I had to grind for any amount t of time would not be playing at all.

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Petre en Thielles
Doomheim
#33 - 2015-06-30 23:25:24 UTC
Jayden Thomas wrote:
PLEX should only and explicitly be used for game time, and not redeemable for anything else. For those of us unable or unwilling to sub with real money, PLEX prices will slowly and surely force us out of the game.


With respect, you can't afford $11/mo?
Daemeon Kado
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#34 - 2015-07-01 00:10:29 UTC
Thank you for the update on the PLEX pricing.... I needed that 900 mil infusion. Whoever got the PLEX... have fun for another month :)
Hal Morsh
Doomheim
#35 - 2015-07-01 00:51:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Hal Morsh
Petre en Thielles wrote:
Jayden Thomas wrote:
PLEX should only and explicitly be used for game time, and not redeemable for anything else. For those of us unable or unwilling to sub with real money, PLEX prices will slowly and surely force us out of the game.


With respect, you can't afford $11/mo?




It's 15 dollars per month for me (unless online tax whatever changed that), and 20$ per plex.



Are you getting 11$ per month for a year package? Not everyone buys EVE in bulk. unless you are in some country where it's money has really high value that also uses dollars. Not the US if you are getting 11 dollars somehow.


Besides not everyone can pay but if you can't pay and you can't earn enough in game cash to be playing then you can't play, there should be no reason CCP be forced to inject plex into the economy to lower that entrance barrier.


Go make the monthly fee or grind the plex out. Even if you can't multibox or incursion a plex at some point, it wont mean someone out there working the market or running some moons wont be able to.

Oh, I perfectly understand, Hal Morsh — a mission like this requires courage, skill, and heroism… qualities you are clearly lacking. Have you forgotten you're one of the bloody immortals!?
Petre en Thielles
Doomheim
#36 - 2015-07-01 01:29:42 UTC
Hal Morsh wrote:


It's 15 dollars per month for me (unless online tax whatever changed that), and 20$ per plex.



Are you getting 11$ per month for a year package? Not everyone buys EVE in bulk. unless you are in some country where it's money has really high value that also uses dollars. Not the US if you are getting 11 dollars somehow.


Besides not everyone can pay but if you can't pay and you can't earn enough in game cash to be playing then you can't play, there should be no reason CCP be forced to inject plex into the economy to lower that entrance barrier.


Go make the monthly fee or grind the plex out. Even if you can't multibox or incursion a plex at some point, it wont mean someone out there working the market or running some moons wont be able to.


I am in the US. Yes, I buy yearly packages. $11/mo compared to $15/mo does nothing but make sense.

regardless, even if you pay monthly, you can't afford $15 for a form of entertainment you use for dozens of hours every month?

with respect, if you can't afford $15/mo for a game you play for a few dozen hours/mo, you should put video games on hold for a bit and spend that time working IRL

EVE is literally the cheapest form of entertainment you can find. hell, I pay $50 for four hours to play golf.
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#37 - 2015-07-01 02:08:09 UTC
Why? Greed. Not speaking of CCP, they have stepped in for a correction in the past, but people who do sell them just want as much as they can get for them. Nothing even about supply and demand, just maximized profits. If they had a shelf life it'd be a different story, but they don't, so you just pay what they want... or like me just use real money to play. I just don't bother with plex.

I'm in it for the money

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Mephiztopheleze
Laphroaig Inc.
#38 - 2015-07-01 02:51:36 UTC
Let me think for a second.....

for ~$15......

I can go to a movie for ~90-120 minutes and almost have enough to buy a drink as well.
I can go to the pub, buy three beers and have enough left over for one game of pool.
I can put ~10l of fuel in my car, which has a 210l tank.
I can order a pick up pizza from my local eatery......


In terms of $/hour, EVE subscriptions are pretty cheap entertainment.

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Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#39 - 2015-07-01 03:34:28 UTC
Mephiztopheleze wrote:
I can go to a movie for ~90-120 minutes and almost have enough to buy a drink as well.
Last I checked it was $18 here, not even counting gas to get there and back which is taxed to the hilt here in Calif (supplier side and again pump side). And that's not even for a 3D movie Roll
Well there are always bargain theaters playing 2yo movies and public buses. meh stay home in the evening and playing compy games is better.

I'm in it for the money

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ashley Eoner
#40 - 2015-07-01 04:12:58 UTC
Hilti Enaka wrote:
This is not a rant but an question as to why plex has become so expensive?

User numbers down?
everyone is space rich?

At what does it become financially better to plex with real money?

plex for good is always good for increasing the overall prices.

It's also really easy for a handful of people to manipulate the price higher.