Market Discussions

I see no changes to the mean income of players with this expansion, so i expect prices to fall back down later in the summer as people finish fleshing out some alts. Though the character bazaar should experience a fundamental shift.

CCP is just gona bring another plex discount...nobody fu*** with the plex price

Yeah, sell now, before prices plummet.

Also: there is a Dust related PLEX drive on now iirc, and don't forget the 1000s of PLEXes that Dr. E is dying to dump on the market.

I just posted a thread about it, I think plex prices will double or even triple within a year or two, supply and demand is completely out of hand, 6000 buy orders vs 1000 sell orders looking at eve central, I also got the feeling that a lot are hording ISK and as soon as inflation starts plex will be the save heaven, holding on to ISK is the worst thing to do

Oh noez, you should stock up at this current price.

i am controller and yes i do understand a lot of those things, what is your profession?

What Kara said.

Plus, with an expansion coming up, and dual char training, and power of two and and and and....the number of sell orders and buy orders having more to do with how many people are trading in plex than how many people are buying them for use.

EDIT:

The eve market is not like a warehouse.

Take Trit:

For the most part, the buy orders are traders buying from miners/reprocessors
Sell orders are traders selling to builders.

So, its traders buying to sell...this is more akin to the stock market than to a warehouse etc

In the case of Plex, you are assuming the buy orders are players wanting to buy Plex for their account, while the sell orders are players selling PLEX they have paid RL cash for.

In reality, it is traders with the buy orders buying PLEX from players who have paid cash for them, and then the same traders reselling them to players who want to use them.

LOL!

Panicked EvE player #1 reporting for duty!

Puts on "tinoil" hat

I hardly believe CCP will sell a lot of PLEX for ISK because they do not get real money for that, so it would not make sense, however if plex go up in ISK value more poeple will buy them with real money to assure they can get more ISK in the game, therefore I believe in Plex going up

PLEX is only valuable for CCP if a real player buys it with real money, if they sell Plex themselfe they loose on every plex they sold, basically they would give away free subscription by doing that, however if a player buys plex from another player who bought it for real money then the subscription cash is not lost for CCP

Although your logic is sound CCP has in the past injected plex into the market to stabilize its price. They use old stocks from perma-banned accounts. They say they have access to way more than they could ever use for this purpose. I don't have a link handy so you can look it up for yourself.

The reason is that a true run on plex would crash the economy. Try to imagine how worthless isk would become. PVP-ers couldn't afford cruisers, indy's couldn't unload their stock, traders would be sitting on a pile of ****, even isk doublers would have to stop their operations.

Tinfoil hats aside this is not a run.

Edit: nice ninja post arck