EVE General Discussion

Paying 15€ now.. no way and I have only one account left of three! I just cannot bring myself to grind isk to keep accounts up and using RL money?! forget it.

I havent played eve for 8 months I think.. just loged in and topped up skill queue. To be really honest.. I dont find anything interesting about this game anymore and 750mil plex seems gtfo.. it's just not worth it.

most expansions are crap.

Happens whenever the weekend is drawing to a close, you always get a peak in PLEX price on friday/saturday US prime time.

i guess he has no stuff :(

I also think the last expansions are "crap".

Actually I don't, but I do think they are just something you'd expect as normal patches without such a roboant name of "expansion".

It's OK CCP stopped creating too big (for their capability) expansions to focus on more digestible ones, but they went so far that we are reduced to incremental polishing of existing features and that's it.
That could even work if EvE was a pure PvP game but no, it has many facets that in an ideal world would entertrain other player kinds, including PvPers who want to do something different some times or don't have enough corp mates online.

PLEX is worth whatever somebody is willing to pay for it, if you're not willing to pay the current price the solution is simple, pay for your game time with real life cash.

You could also take advantage of the prices by purchasing GTCs and exchanging them for PLEX to resell; or you can quit, and give me your stuff.

My guess for the plex price rises would be an ever increasing amount of uses for plex (Ship skins , fanfest etc..) combined with a dwindling number of people prepared to buy plex ( Looking at the eve offline charts it looks like the player base numbers have stagnated if not slightly declined). I think it would be reasonable enough to suggest the balance of low SP to high SP players is shifting so you have more people able to make isk for plex with less people feeling inclined to buy plex for isk.

If you combine this further with powercreep and general inflation you've got a magnitude of reasons for why plex prices are going through the roof !

No matter whats driving it the price increase it is definitely causing issues for myself. Eve lends itself to being very hard to play with only 1 account. I'm current paying for 1 and plexing another. I can easily afford to plex both but i don't value having to spend another ~5 hours of game time to run the account when i could just be playing the game !! My only real concern is if i'm forced to fund the second account i don't think i'd be prepared to pay £20 a month for this game when there are others out there that are cheaper.

Also before people butt in saying you don't need alts, you are correct you don't NEED them. But life in this game gets very difficult without them and you end up having to waste a lot of time unnecessarily. Also pvping without a scout alt often results with running into a 30 man insta lock gate camp which is no fun for anyone.

PLEX prices are on the up and up.

This may well result in the game being less Alts Online and more Eve Online.

That might be an interesting consequence.

Another would yet more RMTers walking away.

Given that so many Eve Online players brag about how much they can earn from doing whatever it is they do, awoxing, scamming, ratting, level 4 missions etc in a Velator armed with civilian mining lasers, I am sure that the rise in the price of PLEX will be of little concern to them.

I think people are overestimating how much a PLEXed account going inactive matters to the balance sheet.