Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I am from India and i bought Eve from Steam after finding Plex cheaper there. Now that you have increased the prices of Plex on steam. There is no reason people will want to opt for Eve from Steam. Instead there is always a risk of getting Steam accound ban= Eve account lost. And Steam servers being down affecting us from playing eve . That being said. I would like you to revert the prices back to what they were We indians cannot afford the current prices. many of us here work at 100-150 Usd per month jobs spending 20 dollars for a plex mean missing out on rent or food or what ever necessity. Be reasonable the game costs less than the plex price :/

OMG Someone on the internet asked me to stop playing games and asked me to reprioritise... DONE!... No more advice from unknown peeps

You realize that a PLEX costs more than a subscription?

If you're buying PLEX to pay for game time, pay the subscription fee instead.
If you're buying PLEX to sell for ISK, well, that's 100% optional, as it's entirely possible, and relatively easy, to make ISK in game.

You need to contact Steam, CCP aren't responsible for the PLEX prices charged by them, because as a 3rd party retailer Steam can charge you what they please; for the most part the 3rd party retailers are actually cheaper than buying direct from CCP.

PLEX is a luxury item with multiple uses whereas a subscription is restricted to game time. As a luxury item it commands a premium over and above the price of a subscription.

And what exactly would you expect them to say? CCP can hardly control exchange rate fluctuations. Again, if you're finding paying for the game a challenge, a re-assessment of your financial priorities may be in order.

Perhaps if you were not just looking to troll, you'd know it's not remotely about exchange rate fluctuations.

I can't really speak for the OP, but my major peeve about this is having the price change without an announcement beforehand.

Imagine if they did that on the main website? All of a sudden, without warning or notice, PLEX were suddenly 3 times the price. You'd be pretty pissed as well. The entire community would be up in arms.

All I really want is for is for an official representative to say why they changed it, and why now? It's not too much to ask for.

As has been established by CCP quite some time ago, there's a significant(-enough) portion of the playerbase who rely on being able to buy isk to play the game owing to being able to make the money in real life with their time better than they could in-game for the concept of PLEX, or its predecessor the Game Time Code, to continue existing.

If and when the price of a PLEX in the real world goes up that directly influences their ability to afford one, depending on just how much that PLEX ends up being worth to them in terms of its buying power.

I imagine that's why some might take changes to the price seriously and want for forewarning of changes, though such forewarning wouldn't be sensible from a business perspective for CCP and would cause far too much speculative behaviour on the game's market to boot, which might just cause a whole lot more anger in terms of quantity of people getting huffy than making the change unannounced.

That being said I don't recall seeing any sort of announcement as to regional PLEX prices changing even after-the-fact. I'm pretty sure a PLEX didn't cost more than twice a month's sub for us South Africans on our regional Steam store just a few months ago.

Note for the above: I'm talking about regional PLEX prices specifically; I can't remember the CCP store price for them ever being less than $19.95/each at 1 per purchase.

Or even how I fixed the Libor, I mean heard about it, sorry read about it..... Sorry what was that your dog said what?