Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Those prices seem to invalidate an even more basic premise: that it's the introduction of ship skinning for AUR that is driving up PLEX prices to begin with. Per the data provided, just about every in-game method for obtaining AUR is cheaper than buying PLEX to convert into AUR.

So, by my hypothesis, not only would decoupling AUR from PLEX not eliminate the/a cause for rising PLEX prices the OP is seeing (being, an increase in the demand for AUR); by Antihrist's data, said cause might not even exist.

I hereby postulate a new theory: EvE (or rather, the player segment that actually pays for their subscriptions) is dying, and PLEX prices are rising because less and less people see the point of acquiring ingame funds, while an equal or even rising number of people is relying on in-game currency to purchase licence time. I base this theory upon the irrefutable evidence that at least 1 player (me) has gone into a sort-of extinguishing mode, where they slowly sell off all their assets and buy PLEX just to keep the training queue going while waiting for CCP to come up with something truly revolutionary to revive interest (note: this means that, no, you can't have my stuff, I'm selling it for PLEX).

Anyway, the previous paragraph can be considered a derailment, so, ignore it, and carry on with the economic speculation.

the AUR would still act like a release valve against PLEX. And vice versa. Prices still rise and fall, but u dnt get the situation we have now where the price of AUR isnt doing much (its barely sold for isk) and PLEX increases with every new release.

That is assuming the drive is for converting to AUR. which would suggest to me that swapping RL money for AUR and then ISK isnt easy, worth it or just not well known about.

Why aren't players buying up AUR with isk rather than PLEX? Is PLEX a cheaper way to get AUR?
Then why arent sellers purchasing AUR and selling it on the market?

and with both AUR AND gametime pushing demand up for PLEX sellers, it could be argued they have an unfair advantage.

final thought, i think i read in the CSM minutes that CCP want to reduce the currencies down to two. so AUR or plex may be on its way out, and everything may be bought with the same currency anyways.