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my issue with plex...
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Ori Hunter
New Eden Construction Co
#1 - 2016-06-30 19:53:28 UTC
hi pip's have a few accounts and was thinking of coming back but i just noticed that 30 days of play is £9.99 in the uk but plex prices are £16.99 so im a little confused ?? any help with this as eve site says a plex is the equivalent to a months play with is 30 days ? but not as you can see ?
Cixin Airuta
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#2 - 2016-06-30 19:56:05 UTC
When you buy gametime, your account duration is increased by the amount you buy.

When you buy PLEX, you gain an ingame item that you can activate to increase your account duration by 30 days
or
you sell the item on the market, thereby gaining ISK (short of a billion right now). That's where the difference comes from, if you are only interested in a reactivation, just buy the gametime.
Hitori Tenchi
R3D SHIFT
#3 - 2016-06-30 19:57:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Hitori Tenchi
My advice...go with the cheaper solution. There's also a deal going on for a discounted 90 day sub with Mulitple Character Training. So you can train two characters on the same account at the same time. I believe it's around US $40.00 for that.
Sonya Corvinus
Grant Village
#4 - 2016-06-30 20:22:05 UTC
Ori Hunter wrote:
hi pip's have a few accounts and was thinking of coming back but i just noticed that 30 days of play is £9.99 in the uk but plex prices are £16.99 so im a little confused ?? any help with this as eve site says a plex is the equivalent to a months play with is 30 days ? but not as you can see ?


If you're low on ISK in game, you can buy a plex and sell it on the market for ISK. If you have too much ISK in game, you can buy a plex on the market and use it to play for a month.

Basically never buy a plex with real life money to use for gametime. Only buy it IRL if you want more ISK.
Ori Hunter
New Eden Construction Co
#5 - 2016-06-30 20:36:30 UTC
im not sure you get what i mean.... ccp say its the equivalent of 30 days when its not 30 days are 9.99 and a plex is 16.99 so its clearly not as advertised !!! get my drift :)
Sonya Corvinus
Grant Village
#6 - 2016-06-30 20:38:43 UTC
Ori Hunter wrote:
im not sure you get what i mean.... ccp say its the equivalent of 30 days when its not 30 days are 9.99 and a plex is 16.99 so its clearly not as advertised !!! get my drift :)


One plex does give you 30 days play time. A plex is an item you can trade to other players in game, a subscription/straight game time isn't tradable in game. You pay extra on the plex for the ability to buy and sell it for ISK in game.
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#7 - 2016-06-30 20:42:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
Ori Hunter wrote:
im not sure you get what i mean.... ccp say its the equivalent of 30 days when its not 30 days are 9.99 and a plex is 16.99 so its clearly not as advertised !!! get my drift :)
It gives you 30 days game time if you use it for that purpose, thus the advertisement isn't wrong.

However, PLEX can be used for other purposes, which makes it a luxury item, and luxury items command premium prices.

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W33b3l
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2016-06-30 20:44:37 UTC
I have not looked it up in a long time... I thought the minimum you could buy is 2 PLEX, is that what is effecting the price?

I know the price of game time and plex changes depending on the country of origin the client is from due to exchange rates. Maybe their data or information is off currently and it should be cheaper? In the USA both a month of game time and the price of one PLEX are about the same if not the same price last time I checked.
aldhura
Blackjack and Exotic Dancers
Top Tier
#9 - 2016-06-30 20:47:21 UTC
There is a special offer on now where you buy 90 days game time and you get 90 days "free" MCT - Multi character training. May be worth looking at.
Sonya Corvinus
Grant Village
#10 - 2016-06-30 20:49:30 UTC
W33b3l wrote:
I have not looked it up in a long time... I thought the minimum you could buy is 2 PLEX, is that what is effecting the price?

I know the price of game time and plex changes depending on the country of origin the client is from due to exchange rates. Maybe their data or information is off currently and it should be cheaper? In the USA both a month of game time and the price of one PLEX are about the same if not the same price last time I checked.


In USD, one plex is $19.95, two or more at onec is $16.99 each. One month gametime is $14.95, down to $10.95/mo if you buy a years subscription, so no matter what it's always cheaper to buy game time than plex.

Other countries are fairly similar in those differences.
Shae Tadaruwa
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#11 - 2016-06-30 20:54:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Shae Tadaruwa
Ori Hunter wrote:
im not sure you get what i mean.... ccp say its the equivalent of 30 days when its not 30 days are 9.99 and a plex is 16.99 so its clearly not as advertised !!! get my drift :)

PLEX = 30 days if used for gametime

:. PLEX is equivalent to 30 days

You are fixated on the price rather than what it actually is. Different products with different price points, but that doesn't change what it provides.

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Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#12 - 2016-06-30 21:00:49 UTC
The extra cost is for Plex having multiple functions, including in game trade, character re-sculpting, character transfers, AUR trade, etc. Adding subscription through billing is more direct, cost effective, and more convenient way to subbing if that's all you want.

"Tomahawks?"

"----in' A, right?"

"Trouble is, those things cost like a million and a half each."

"----, you pay me half that and I'll hump in some c4 and blow the ---- out of it my own damn self."
Ori Hunter
New Eden Construction Co
#13 - 2016-06-30 21:25:29 UTC
this is what i mean you cant have the same product/ item for 2 different prices

9.99 divided by 30 days = 0.0333333333333333 per day
16.99 divided by 30 days = 1.700700700700701 per day


so you get what im saying now ???
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#14 - 2016-06-30 21:43:37 UTC
Ori Hunter wrote:
this is what i mean you cant have the same product/ item for 2 different prices

9.99 divided by 30 days = 0.0333333333333333 per day
16.99 divided by 30 days = 1.700700700700701 per day


so you get what im saying now ???
Which bit of a PLEX has more than one use, whereas a subscription only has one are you finding difficult to comprehend?

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Ori Hunter
New Eden Construction Co
#15 - 2016-06-30 21:57:41 UTC
as far as i understand plex has one use, adding game time, and it can be sold on the market so one use or did i miss something ?? and it's advertised as equivalent to one months play but if one months play is 9.99 it's clearly not equivalent !!
Kueyen
Angharradh's Aegis
#16 - 2016-06-30 22:03:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Kueyen
Ori Hunter wrote:
9.99 divided by 30 days = 0.0333333333333333 per day
16.99 divided by 30 days = 1.700700700700701 per day
If you suffer from Dyscalculia, EvE might not be the game for you.

£9.99 / 30 days = 0.333 £/day
£16.99 / 30 days = 0.5663 £/day

Expect it to go up in the future, though, thanks to the "Leave" camp accidentally winning.

Also: The many uses of Plex.

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#17 - 2016-06-30 22:16:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
Ori Hunter wrote:
as far as i understand plex has one use, adding game time, and it can be sold on the market so one use
That's 2 uses by your own admission. It can also be used for multiple character training, character transfers, character resculpts, exchanged for Aurum, PLEX4Good donations and tickets to fanfest etc.

Quote:
or did i miss something ??
School apparently, judging by your inability to comprehend basic sentences. Given that you used the £ I think that we can assume that English is your native tongue, so that's no excuse.

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and it's advertised as equivalent to one months play but if one months play is 9.99 it's clearly not equivalent !!
PLEX will give you 30 days game time if you use it that way, the monthly sub also gives 30 days game time, how is that not equivalent?

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Sonya Corvinus
Grant Village
#18 - 2016-06-30 22:16:37 UTC
Ori Hunter wrote:
as far as i understand plex has one use, adding game time, and it can be sold on the market so one use or did i miss something ?? and it's advertised as equivalent to one months play but if one months play is 9.99 it's clearly not equivalent !!


I'm going to say this for the third (and last) time before I abandon this thread.

You can sell a plex in game for 900 million ISK as well. To have that privilege, you pay more in real life money. Don't want to pay extra? Subscribe to game time.

I honestly don't know how to say that any other way.
Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#19 - 2016-06-30 22:31:42 UTC
Ori Hunter wrote:
or did i miss something ??



Yes, several dozen times while people have been screaming the correct answer again and again

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KaarBaak
Squirrel Team
#20 - 2016-06-30 22:44:19 UTC
It's always strange when some of EvE's best and brightest forum warriors are successfully trolled.

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