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CCP probably won't increase what they charge, the outrage would be huge.

An increase in PLEX prices (in USD) would lead to some players swapping from PLEX payments to a subscription, an increase in illicit RMT, and likely little or no increase in PLEX revenue.

If CCP were legitimately in trouble and wanted short term cash at the expense of the game's future, you'd see sanctioned paid cheating creep its way in. Probably in the form of an end to the war on bots, or introduction of game-able tournaments on demand (win 10 of this AT-quality ship if you win the tournament, 5 PLEX per team to enter, runs on demand, no action taken against teams that collude with their rivals).

If they were in real trouble and willing to go further in sacrificing integrity for short-term profit, you'd see CCP create new characters to buy PLEX from the market (creating the ISK out of thin air), then delete the PLEX.

Their actions in the recent Caldari Provist event indicate that they are not looking to do any of these things.

If you mess with the equilibrium, you'll be worse off.

They paid off people who were working on another project which they stopped not because they were running out of money, why have excess staff when you dont need them

Maybe an increase in RMT but I'm not sure how many players would swap from PLEX to subscription. Never underestimate how worthless ISK is compared to the real almighty dollar. I bet PLEX prices could double in the next three months and people would still be buying it, so we can only hope that CCP would step in before then.

Op just wants to scaremonger people into buying plex, result is plex prices rise and he makes a profit on the plex he has stockpiled.

That's all this thread is.

I have the in-game resources to comfortably PLEX my accounts, yet both are on a subscription at the moment because despite not being IRL wealthy, USD25/month is not much of my disposable income. I spend more than twice that amount on a gym membership. (I do pay dual character training fees, when desired, via PLEX acquired via trading).

If I need to tighten my belt IRL, I'd cut down on drinking sessions first, then after that would change to PLEXing the accounts.

And this is someone with well over 50b in assets and an income of multiple billions per month.


That said, I have never and do not ever intend to purchase PLEX from CCP to resell on the market. Losing a slightly blinged Ishtar can be enjoyable when you think 'ah well, that's 90 minutes of ISK generation activities erased, but those activities were still somewhat fun'. If instead I start thinking 'that's USD 9 destroyed' I'd be converting that into time at work, and thinking 'ugh, no, I do not want to stare at spreadsheets and airworthiness directives for X time, that ruins the experience of the fight I lost the Ishtar in'.