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How HIGH would PLEX HAVE to go...
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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#21 - 2012-08-17 22:19:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Tippia
Shameless Avenger wrote:
How many plex are sold in a month?
Depends on what you mean by “sold”.

2,500–3,000 are traded daily in Jita, so that's 80k:ish a month, but there's no telling how many of those are “newly injected” (and thus recently sold by CCP) and how many of them are just re-sales and old relistings of pre-existing PLEX.

…and then there's the question of how many of them are being stockpiled and how many are being activated for AUR or game time, thus ensuring further sales a month later.
Syler Puuntai
Nomadic Asylum
#22 - 2012-08-17 22:22:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Syler Puuntai
If only they still did QEN it would give a better insight into how many plexes are actually bought and used, to eliminate the white noise that comes from re-listings that shows on the in-game charts. Also I'm curious on how disproportional the injection of isk has become compared to the amount removed.
Ginger Barbarella
#23 - 2012-08-17 22:28:22 UTC
Anyone that can generate enough isk with relative ease will pay the plex prices, irrespective of how high it goes. for a large number it's easier to generate isk in-game (no job, student, etc) than to pay cash.

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Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#24 - 2012-08-17 22:32:20 UTC
OP: .01 isk.

Translation - I already pay via normal sub methods.
Swooshie
USA Canada Private Corp
#25 - 2012-08-17 22:43:15 UTC
For me the factors are :

a. the size of the ISK reserve pool at my disposal at the time when PLEX purchasing would be relevant.

or

b. the opportunity cost of acquiring said ISK if the reserve doesn't permit.

There is a modifying factor however : the process of billing my credit card and paying that card's bill through automated payment is fairly more convenient and seamless than buying and applying a PLEX :p

Also, and flame me all you want about it some people here really have a flaw in their logical process, I still believe that it is much better for the financial state of the devs to get my payment than me using a PLEX.

"It is when I think about meaning that I lose what I meant to say."     -Swooshie
Regan Rotineque
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#26 - 2012-08-17 22:43:21 UTC
Regan confused.....which is not far from a normal day.

Pay sub...problem goes away

~R~
Ensign X
#27 - 2012-08-17 23:24:08 UTC
If i had to pay $1 for a monthly subscription I would quit immediately. EVE works because I can spend a few hours a month doing PVE to pay for an entire months worth of PVP and a PLEX to boot. Take that away and EVE is just another run of the mill pay-to-play MMO.
AdmiralJohn
The Unknown Bar and Pub
#28 - 2012-08-17 23:30:34 UTC
I buy PLEX with real money because

1) I'm employed and making good money, and
2) I'm a high-roller with expensive tastes and not enough time to grind for ISK.

Really, I buy PLEX for the same reason that mining your own ore for your ship doesn't make it free: my time is money and I make more of it doing employed people stuff rather than grinding in a video game,
Antaria Wildsun
Massive Impact
#29 - 2012-08-17 23:44:40 UTC
I pay for all of my play time with plex because making isk is fun for me and I have more isk that real money at this point (so to speak and not entirely true, I dont want to pay RL money). Im cheap and If doing what I like pays for my game then more power to me.
Kattshiro
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#30 - 2012-08-17 23:44:56 UTC
Syler Puuntai wrote:
Only plex when I want to check something, then use the remainder of the month to troll the forums. Other then that my accounts stay inactive. Though I have like 20b so not really worried about the price.


Really? God damn that's sad.
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#31 - 2012-08-17 23:48:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Akita T
Well, let's see...
...can't sell ISK for RL cash without a ban, so obviously no use for ISK outside of the game...
...not much to do with all the ISK I have since I'm barely actively playing, so most of it can be allocated for PLEX purchase without much flinching even assuming all debtors end up defaulting and I'm left just with my current assets and none of the loans back...
...about 10 more years minimum of vague interest in EVE, probably a bit optimistic, and can always switch to cash payments anyway if interest re-surges after most ISK is gone...
...so, I guess somewhere about around 2 bil ISK per PLEX would still be quite damn comfortable for me personally, and probably would have to go above 5 bil ISK per PLEX before I would go "eh, screw it" and only reactivate once per year or so instead of keeping it perma-active.

...

HOWEVER

...

On the reverse side, say I would be nearly ISK-less but my interest in EVE would have re-surged, so I'd have to start from the ground up.
In that case, I'd probably purchase a small lump of PLEX with cash and sell for ISK even if PLEX would only sell for about 100 mil ISK a piece.

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Barkaial Starfinder
Brazilian Vultures
Ferrata Victrix
#32 - 2012-08-17 23:53:35 UTC
Everyone on the forums are either asking for ISK or swimming in it.


Well except me.
Liang Nuren
No Salvation
Divine Damnation
#33 - 2012-08-18 00:01:32 UTC
Akita T wrote:
Well, let's see...
...can't sell ISK for RL cash without a ban, so obviously no use for ISK outside of the game...
...not much to do with all the ISK I have since I'm barely actively playing, so most of it can be allocated for PLEX purchase without much flinching even assuming all debtors end up defaulting and I'm left just with my current assets and none of the loans back...
...about 10 more years minimum of vague interest in EVE, probably a bit optimistic, and can always switch to cash payments anyway if interest re-surges after most ISK is gone...
...so, I guess somewhere about around 2 bil ISK per PLEX would still be quite damn comfortable for me personally, and probably would have to go above 5 bil ISK per PLEX before I would go "eh, screw it" and only reactivate once per month or so instead of keeping it perma-active.

...

HOWEVER

...

On the reverse side, say I would be nearly ISK-less but my interest in EVE would have re-surged, so I'd have to start from the ground up.
In that case, I'd probably purchase a small lump of PLEX with cash and sell for ISK even if PLEX would only sell for about 100 mil ISK a piece.


So give me all your ISK and you can try to start over from scratch ! Or you can just contract me 500 Dual Light Pulse II + 500 Medium Pulse II + 500 Medium Beam II + 500 Heat Sink II + 500 TE II. That'd make me happy as a clam.

-Liang

I'm an idiot, don't mind me.
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#34 - 2012-08-18 00:05:33 UTC
Naaaw, I'm a penny-pinchin' ScroogeMcDuck or sumfin' ;)

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Syler Puuntai
Nomadic Asylum
#35 - 2012-08-18 00:06:38 UTC
Kattshiro wrote:
Syler Puuntai wrote:
Only plex when I want to check something, then use the remainder of the month to troll the forums. Other then that my accounts stay inactive. Though I have like 20b so not really worried about the price.


Really? God damn that's sad.


After 6-7+ years of playing Eve and after pretty much doing everything, I can't seem to get into it anymore. At times I want to but that quickly fades.

Also being US and usually my play time is 6am-11am EST doesn't help either.
Jack Miton
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#36 - 2012-08-18 00:06:46 UTC
Ive never used plex on any of my accounts.
I have a RL job.

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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#37 - 2012-08-18 00:10:42 UTC
The higher PLEX spikes and the more volatile the market gets the more easily I can afford to pay for my play time using PLEX. What I fear is the market getting too stable, I don't care about the price.

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MadMuppet
Critical Mass Inc
#38 - 2012-08-18 01:17:30 UTC
Maxxatan wrote:
Before you find the cost unbearable and start paying montly subs or just quit EVE?


350 million isk... and I never looked back.

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Large Collidable Object
morons.
#39 - 2012-08-18 02:19:58 UTC
Only time I ever used plex was during Incarnage because I figured I wouldn't play anyomre if they kept heading down that road and wouldn't need isk anymore.

Otherwise, I usually pay my accounts using RL cash since I already work more than I want to and don't have time to spend my money in my limited spare time, so it accumulates either way.

Moreover, my daily wine & cigar spendings exceed the cost of a months eve subsription by quite a margin, so I really don't mind.

Wouldn't sell plex for isk, though - that's where I draw the line. Just a matter of principle.
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Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#40 - 2012-08-18 04:52:23 UTC
Interesting question.

No real idea. I'd probably start cutting down on the "for parallel training" accounts though. Then again, moving characters needs two plex, oh my..

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