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Because at the moment they might believe they could potentially use it.

On the upswing of the price rise, people could be enticed into purchasing PLEX from ccp hoping to sell it for it's at the moment higher worth.

If the price were going up, the price would keep going up if they're being bought, resulting in PLEX sellers continuing to try and get more worth out of the PLEX.

*Snip* Removed reply to an edited out part of the quoted post. ISD Ezwal.

Yes, this opinion about the intelligence level of other EvE players is a very valid opinion you are allowed to have. I'm certain in some instances it is correct.

Didn't bother to read entire threadnaught; but the real reason is:

IRL ECONOMY you damn ding bats.

The real reason PLEX is so expensive?

Answer: because F**K botters and ISObox miners, that's why.

Which is only technically true once the number of accounts that depend on PLEX surpasses the number of PLEX in the supply. An account deciding to forgo PLEXing that month due to prices won't affect CCP in the slightest.

So as long as there are any on the market anywhere, CCP isn't losing anything. Which will never happen so long as CCP continues to make them available.

Probably the most obvious thing you have overlooked Tips, is the RMT angle. PLEX being more expensive makes the buying of ISK that much more desirable.

Bottom line, CCP trying to keep the prices of PLEX low are only going to hurt themselves. It is in nobody's best interest for CCP to do price fixing... except maybe the people who convert ISK into game time, but they already decide how much they value PLEX... nobody has as much control over it as they do.

Assuming for a minute that PLEX are being purchased as an investment (as has been hinted at previously), it would be in CCP's best interest to keep prices low as investors in most commodities do not hoard or hold when prices are high.

...I play eve, so I can buy plex, so I can play eve, so I can buy more plex....

And this is the myth we need to squash. Sure, losing subscription hurts CCP immediately, but not PLEXed accounts. The effect those accounts have are entirely implied, not actually witnessed. Since such things are not going to directly hurt PLEX revenue for CCP, we cannot quantify those events as significant enough to impact PLEX pricing by themselves.

The rate at which PLEX is sold is entirely disconnected from the rate at which PLEX is consume as gametime and thus cannot be used as a universal variable of the health of the balance sheet.

SOE had (has?) a similar faux way of accounting their revenues. They don't consider Sony Cash to be a product they are selling, they only account for second tier purchases using SC as revenue. Now that is certainly a good way to confuse the community, but the Securities and Exchange Commission will have words to say about it if it were done that way officially.

CCP's concern orientation, in regards to revenue generation, should be on PLEX sales and Subscriptions. That is why they are loading up on PLEX based services, rather than intentionally driving down the price of PLEX.

What you can do with PLEX is why people buy it with ISK. ISK is why people sell PLEX. The higher the value of them, the more that will be purchased from CCP. It doesn't matter how many are actually on the ingame market, it really doesn't so long as people keep buying them.

I don't believe CCP would risk playing with the PLEX market. They rely too much on buyer confidence to risk the backlash.

That said, I still don't see that CCP could consider PLEXed accounts going inactive as a loss of revenue. Sure they can make projections about it, but that doesn't actually change anything. Many people buy and sell PLEX in bulk, so those transactions aren't necessarily going to show a fluid market history.

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