EVE General Discussion

The trade data (which is available to anyone via the market) shows that PLEX volume is not reflecting that position. Volume would need to increase under your assumption.

Your position assumes the seller of the PLEX in-game is the driving force of the PLEX Market, but it's the consumer as usual that drives the market.

The trade volumes only show the amount of PLEX bought and sold within EvE, but it doesn't show the volume of PLEX bought from CCP with real money.

You can state with certainty about how many PLEX are being traded within the confines of the EvE universe, PLEX for ISK.
But you cannot state with certainty about how many PLEX are being bought from CCP with money.

Unless of course CCP releases information that shows previous and current PLEX purchases from CCP with real money, then whatever "certainty" you come to regarding the volume of it is false.

Any statement about what you feel is certain or not regarding the amount of PLEX being bought from CCP for money is merely your opinion.

…which is where the ISK price matters. Since we can trivially correlate price with volume, we see that price does not affect volume. That's all there is to it. In addition, CCP is actively trying to keep the price down since this ensures that they don't lose accounts.

So no, CCP very obviously does not benefit from higher prices. Instead, they benefit from lower prices. Exactly why they do so is hardly rocket surgery.

For your idea to hold true, CCP would have to act against their own interests and people would have to buy things they can't actually make use of. If you want to defend your position, explain those two rather than insisting on being wrong about what we do and do not know.

So you agree, then, that your position is rather nonsensical.

The reason plex have gone up in price is cause silly buggers will pay the higher price

It really is this simple.

You don't know if it's happening or not. There is no metric used to show the total amount of PLEX being bought by players from players for isk, and there's no metric showing the amount of PLEX bought from CCP by players for money.

You assuming to know is merely your belief of what you feel is happening, your opinion.

You believe you know all you need to know.
You can't know that more or less total plex is being traded, you only assume you do with the information provided to you, but there is information that none of us knows. Because of what we can't know, it's impossible to say one way or the other as a certainty.

As for CCP wanting to keep prices down, well personally I've never seen a Dev statement confirming one way or the other. Does one exist? Potentially. Just because I haven't seen the statement doesn't mean I'm going to claim it doesn't exist.

The problem with this reasoning is that, if we assume your premise, we can't know anything about anything and therefore we cannot draw any conclusions. It's a futile mental exercise.

As Tippia mentioned, high ISK per PLEX could, if anything, reduce PLEX supply, not raise it.

Because the majority of people buy PLEX (with cash) because they need ISK, not because they want ISK.

If you want ISK, you play for ISK, so you'll have ISK-positive toons (e.g. traders, miners, industrialists) so what would you need PLEX for?

Otoh, if you play for spaceship violence, you'll probably have ISK-negative toons (PVPers) that need ISK injection. So you buy PLEX and sell it ingame for ISK.

You buy based on your need: you lose 1B ISK per month? You buy 2 PLEX if they're 'worth' 500M, just one if it's worth 1B.

So when PLEX prices rise, I'd assume you either buy less or maybe the same amount (because that's the 'fun' budget you've decided to spend anyway) and fit a few more shiny mods on your soon-to-be-dead PVP ships.

Explain why people would buy something they can't use.
Explain how the price would keep going up if they do.

*Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal.