Market Discussions

You could populate a large percentile with the "Most people", but that does not mean the "FEW people" who have large stashes of money (guess who plays heavy PLEX markets games?) are intelligent enough to have been able to achieve those large stashes of money (duh!).
This "intelligent enough" factor would also push them into studying what happens when you store egregious amounts of wealth inside a depreciable currency (ISK).
I am not sure it's necessary for an economy to function, but "humanity" seem adamant into saving their efforts and wealth by looking for "stronghold assets" like noble metals in RL. How many EvE stronghold assets are there besides the ONE item that is worth a fixed, dependable amount of the highest value commodity of all: time?
What'd be the second best, if the ONE item is removed? What can buy time then?

The answer is what investors will turn into. And then traders.



Also, if CCP has plans to ever cut the umbilical cord ISK <=> game time (be it through PLEX or AUR), they are better thinking 20 or 30 times before such decision is made.

Imagine unleashing the tremendous, unstoppable earthquake-tsunami ISK equivalent of all the PLEX existing in game, onto the relatively feeble "regular" EvE markets. Low tier minerals and ice markets could possibily carry on, but the others? You'd have untold amounts of liquidity flooding everything, novel "market makers" manipulating stuff with unprecedented power.

CCP wants em nice and low. But it no workey.

They usually drop after an update, and return or spike a couple weeks later.

lol no they dont, they usually spike at the same time as an expansion due to returning players and players hording them to hedge against other assets reducing in value.

The price has been falling for a while. Faster until the holidays, and slowly now.

This is probably the effect of loss of population in the game. It looks like we are down about 1% each month since Christmas.

Right, so they would have to give AUR value. Remove PLEX, replace all of them with AUR, then sell game time for AUR. The rate would be 3 days for 350 AUR. They CCP would also need to introduce a market allowing players to trade AUR for ISK with each other.

In the end, we would have the same situation as we do now: You can get AUR for real money and then sell for ISK, or you can use ISK to buy AUR form another player, then turn it in for game time.

The big difference: We eliminate a redundant currency: PLEX. AUR and ISK are all we really need to make the current EVE economy work.

Everything will change if CCP gets their way

I did not check your link. I have made the majority of my wealth from plex flipping, including riding the waves the follow a patch, and I have my own personal experience and wallet to prove my statement for me, I'm not really interested if you disagree with me or mot because I know my investment practices in plex and plex behavior have proven correct. Prices are high before a patch (when I sell to have the liquid needed for...), quickly plummet a few weeks after a patch (when I buy), supply is choked and briefly prices spike (when I sell), and then normalize to just before patch prices and continue on with their downward trend.

I must have found a market leprechaun then, turning what a graph says should be losses into billions of profit. This can only mean one thing: Half life 3 confirmed!

Fixed that for you.


by any PLEX speculator. Thats right. But for ordinary PLEX producers / users like me it would be absolutely OK. Cause I rearely have more than 5 PLEX in my posession. PLEX speculators do not create any usefull game content but rather abuse feature, that was intended solely for quick ISK injection / possibility to play for free. So there will be no surprise if CCP decides to get rid of those via PLEX conversion quota? PLEX speculators rage quite, game economy stabilize, CCP will get 20 euro for one replaced megatrone navy issue instead of 10 as it was around new year.

The only way to stop PLEX speculation is to peg it to a specific isk value, say 500 million isk. No matter what region you are in PLEX is the same value on the market