Jita Park Speakers Corner

I've been playing EVE almost since beta with a few breaks. I can say that today EVE is too expensive to play. The amount of time required to maintain multiple accounts is excessive to say the least and the daily hours necessary are making EVE feel like work instead of playing a game.

Plex cost's must come down or I believe you will begin to see more and more players let their subscriptions lapse. In the gaming world today "Free to Play" has become the norm with income derived from paying for XP and Credit bonuses and special unique items.

I understand EVE was not established to function that way but its time for ccp and/or the council to take a long and hard look at this. Even though ccp has always maintained that EVE was an open sandbox but in reality changes have been made from the beginning to force players to play the game as the developers envision it should be. tinkering with the market to bring plex cost's down would not be setting new precedent.

You can always do what I have done and realise a: I can't afford the money to pay for all the accounts or b: I can't be bothered to spend all my time making money for plexes.

No offence but it's the people who plex the accounts that push the price up so why are you complaining when the price gets to high?

What was it last time, 130 bucks? for a full year subscription and I could play the game instead of have myself forced to grind for isk.

And no.
If CCP goes f2p it's over and out for EVE.
Incarna riots should be warning enough.

The entrance, movement, and purchuse of PLEX is something that CCP tracks. They have an economics team that works on this topic. I know that many players are distressed over the price of PLEX. But on the side of Eve's health CCP is paying attention to it and they are the ones with the data to make that end decision. Also, it is to be remembered that PLEX entered Eve as part of the fight against RMT.

I really do not know why people whine about plex. Let me put this into perpective:

Last night I was in a c3 and soloed a data and relic site. Granted my ship was 3b isk, but still. In the aprx hour it took me to clear both sites, hack the cans, loot and salvage I made 400m. I got lucky on my nano's. But still. 400m. 1/2 the cost fo a plex in 1 hour.

you can get the isk for a plex in 1 single day. That's it, even less. You have been playing since beta... so clearly you are doing it wrong if eve is a 'second job'. I have a corp mate who grinded ut 1bisk in 3 weeks doing lvl'4. he rarly plays more then an hour a day.

Again, not that difficult. And no, eve never needs to be FTP, there is enough whining over plex as there is.

Its a mutiple, sided mechanism, high plex prices also mean players who invest more rl money in eve get a better bang for thier Buck. U wont hear the seller complain.

On the other hand it might mean more people pay with isk, so suply demand mechanism. Or less people buy spare plex, or soend them on other things.

High plex price are also bad for black markets, and farming becomes a task not worth the effort to gain rl money. Imagine having to get dollars for your roebel or other international currency changes..

There is no fixed exchange, and its also alot suply demand driven, as u can imagine, so u can harldy blame ccp for pushing people outside the game. The amount of hours grinding for a plex ate better served in a little job tbh, flip burgers or wash a car a month, versus 10-20 h a month grinding. Its a choice ofc, and yeh u need to work more hours whe price rises.consider what u like doing best and make a assesment of your situation what fits u best when things change.

Eve isn't expensive at all for me when I factor in cost versus time spent playing. It's possibly the cheapest hobby I have.

We are NOT doing free to play.