EVE General Discussion

It's in the best interests of CCP to do anything they can to assist PLEX prices rising.

They want to switch more people over to active subscriptions and have PLEX as a more formal in-game currency. There will be price points whereby players will simply start paying real money for EVE and stop paying by PLEX. As such, CCP will do what they can without directly involving themselves in the market to assist with PLEX prices rising (such as putting a huge banner about PLEX prices going up upon logging in).

I would guess that the main reason PLEX prices are going up has to do with speculation on the market, hoarding, and attempted manipulations by players to get even more people to buy up PLEX.

This thread is a perfect example of market manipulation. GET IN ON THE PLEX RISE NOW!! YOU CAN CASH IN LATER!! THEY WILL KEEP GOING UP!

Without knowing anything about the PLEX market right now I would still hazard another guess: the majority of people buying up PLEX right now are doing so with the intention of 'cashing in' on the PLEX craze later.

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My take on this is that long term players who cancelled their paid subs started using PLEX to extend gametime.

At the same time they stopped buying PLEX to sell for isk until they can see the results of CCP's "new attitude".

This has reduced PLEX supply on both counts, thus prices rise.

Demand > Supply

Most likely it's real-world economics coupled with pre-expansion speculation ... fewer people have the RL isk to throw $60 or $100 at a few GTC, so higher price.

eventually, the price will hit "too high" and start coming back down because no one can sell at 650 or 700m per... (note these are just numbers, I'm not saying that it'll HIT 700m)

You got any statistics? The amount of plexes traded didn't drop yet.
It's easier to create(as in generate, not get from other players) ISK these days (incursions, ratting bots, etc) than a year ago, so the limit of what people are willing to sell isn't reached yet i think.

I think either supply is drying up or some trillionaire is fixing the market. This might force CCP to put a max sell price on PLEX or have NPCs selling them at 700M

Wow... you really have no clue do you?
That banner was an attempt to lower the pries and it worked... only for a short time though.

*shakes head* people these days.

Why is it better for CCP if they get less money?

CCP gains the monetary benefit of having a demand for PLEX, thus earning more money than if the same account was kept active through subscriptions.

Oh, and PLEXed accounts are paid for.

D: so many silly people. CCP will never price fix PLEX. The amount of PLEX sold is not affected by the price. The point at which fewer people start buying PLEX is the point at which the price will stop rising. If you check the market the volume of PLEX traded has not gone down even with the price increase. The market has always and will continue to self regulate :D

My personal opinion on PLEX is that if you are a billionaire with nothing to do with your money PLEX is for you, but if you grind for a few days doing something you don't like in game just to sub your account you would be better off working one hour of overtime in RL.

$30 dollars is not a lot of money. Do you ever go out? Buy a beer? That's one night with friends. I'm guessing many people here that have multiple accounts and pay with PLEX are spending way more than one night a month on this game. Yes, you might not have to 'grind' that much to get the ISK to pay for your two PLEXs, but I'm sure you spend a fair amount of time banking ISK to pay for game time.

Is that really fun? If you're so annoyed at the PLEX market right now, and don't want to waste time grinding ISK to pay for PLEX, maybe, ya know, don't.

You say you have better uses for your money than to use it on space pixels. Let's think about that for a minute. Minimum wage is roughly 7.50 in the US (I think). I don't know where you live but that's 2 hours of work for one month of play time. Is that a waste of time? Especially compared to how much time I'm guessing you spend banking ISK for PLEX? Is doing <---- that fun?

Heh, maybe banking ISK for PLEX is fun for you... that baffles me. Yes, there are plenty of people with enough ISK that they can just pay for PLEX no problem without farming for it. On the other hand, there are players with some common sense and realize they'd rather use the game time to play a game - so they just pay every once and awhile, when they don't want to grind for PLEX, or don't have enough ISK to do so.

From reading your posts, and I might be mistaken, it seems like you're saying it's a waste of time to spend money on spacepixels, when on the other hand, you're complaining that you have to waste time to grind for ISK. You might be surprised how relieved you are after just paying for an account - I dunno, the game might actually... be fun then?

This!!!

CCP get paid for PLEX, wether you buy it from them and use, Buy it from them and selll on the market or Buy a GTC and split into PLEX.

NO MATTER WHICH, CCP STILL GET PAID.