Player Features and Ideas Discussion

For a lack of recent threads in GD on PLEX prices, I thought one should be opened

So once again, prices are going ballistic (+100m in less than a month), probably due to Phoebe and a handful of clever trillionaires that like to capitalize on poor people.

First of, I don't think that PLEX are broken or that rising prices are necessarily ~bad for the game~. There are rather obvious benefits to high prices (anti-RMT to name one). However, there are also potential downsides, the most important of which is that in the long run EVE might loose individual (real) players who can no longer afford to run their alt(s) or EVE altogether.

I suggest CCP should look into doing something about market manipulation of PLEX prices.

You think "free market but but ...", yet I say CCP has steeped in before (technetium for example). Granted, a solution to PLEX manipulation would need a somewhat different approach ...

INTRODUCING PLEX TAX™ (see what I did there)

The organization (SCC ?) that is issuing PLEX is concerned about loosing their control over licensing things and decrees that henceforth a tax be paid from all those that would hoard, sell or scam with PLEX rather than use them.

• hoarding tax: each day during downtime you are being taxed for the PLEX you have sitting in your hangars or in the redeeming system by 0.3% of some value that resembles the average PLEX price (but shouldn't obv. be prone to manipulation ... ). Of course PLEX on sell orders and contracts are taxed as well! Differently maybe, or just the same.
• Add to that a special salex tax (or rather a buyers tax) for people acquiring PLEX.

FIXED it! Now send me donations :>

If I were the SCC, I would rub my **** everytime someone sells/buys a plex.

I know, I was not talking the measures CCP is already taking, but PLEX manipulation by players. Whatever CCP is doing doesn't seem to have any meaningful impact, which lets me wonder, if they are actually interested at all in keeping PLEX prices down TBH.

As I said, if CCP feels like that bottom line high PLEX prices actually benefit the game/their business they might as well stop that sharade gg

However if not, maybe a solution like PLEX tax TM would actually make a difference.

Exactly what EVE Needs. The "government" tampering with the economy.

I for one would like to see plex prices go up more. I have ships to buy, ships to pew and ships to explode.

EvE isn't my second job so I don't plex my account.

If CCP wanted a more fluid plex market without a few ultra rich people hording them to drive prices higher and higher they would just give them an expiration date after which they become worthless.

This way the market would crash with all those horded plex being thrown on the market and after this stabilize on a supply and demand value.

But I really doubt something like his will happen.

A tax ? What a joke...

There is only one thing to do : make the plex as expensive as a standard monthly subscription (20 € > 15 €). As long as a Plex is more expensive, no equilibrium price in ISK can be found.

CCP will not be able to maintain this higher price anyway : there are players who pay with Plex only. If their ISK price don't stop raising, they will leave, and this is really not the moment (Elite: Dangerous is coming out in december, etc.)

+1

I dunno, i'm proably pretty jaded by all the time i've spent reading the bowhead feedback.

Yet another solution to a problem that does not exist.