Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Six months ago I wouldn't have said this were an issue. However, CCP keeps adding new functions for Plex, and making the SKINs aurum based has served to inflate the cost of PLEX even more. Since my joining they have gone from 600mil to now over 1bil.

As a result I think the character transfer fee should be reduced from 2 plex to 1 plex, as character transfer now is almost double the cost of what it used to be ISK-wise.

EDIT: Since it wasn't clear, the reason for this is not to reduce demand for PLEX (I doubt it will affect that significantly). It is to reduce character transfer cost, which has become prohibitively high.

I don't intend it to decrease the price for plex - I mean to reduce the price of character transfer because it has become prohibitively high. I don't think reducing the transfer fee would have a significant effect on plex price, character transfers probably account for a very small fraction of plex usage.

The market for plex is not defined by the gimmicky bullshit its defined by the people who want to plex their accounts... And lets face it most eve players can plex their account if they want to...

Even if they went up to like 3.5b or something i dont think that would stop MANY people from plexxing...

That seems extremely overpriced to me based on the value of that service. I don't think the transfer cost has to do with value of the service though. If I'm not mistaken it's put in place to limit transferring characters around between accounts. You can imagine how often that would happen if there was no transfer cost.

This part made me chuckle a bit. Yes, CCP does have a good say on what the price of PLEX is. This can be proven if CCP were to either halve or double the price of PLEX on their part for lets say at least 1 month or longer. This would directly affect the supply of PLEX, which will affect the price.

I don't think the current PLEX system is in a healthy place right now because its the only item in the game that cannot be produced by the players on the in game level (Other then AURUM, but PLEX is directly related to AURUM, so its the same thing). This means that people who manipulate the plex market have a very low risk compared to any other item in the game, because there is always the risk of someone producing the item in game and undercutting them.

Really the only real risk to these guys is the occasional weekend sale or the Amazon PLEX sale screwup. But these events/screwups do not last long enough to have an affect on the market for more then a few days.

^^ this.

And for those people whining about my suggestion, you are correct- $20 would be totally fine - but that figure you suggested as being reasonable ($20) is equivalent to one plex, which is exactly what I suggested it be reduced to. The real current cost is closer to $40 (well for me - it is $35 in USD), which is not reasonable.

The OP says the price has become too high. The real money price hasn't much changed (RIP Ruble). So only the ISk price has. So we are back to,"PLEX are to expensive" thread.

I have transfered around 130 chars in the last 3 years...

And I have never paid with something else than 2x PLEX per transfer.

Why should the transfer cost be reduced? It is your job as buyer / seller to negotiate the price of a toon.

If you lose ISK, it is not CCP`s mistake, it is yours.

I have a better idea....roll back to character transfer being a RL money transaction. The way it used to be.

Removes plex from the whole equation.


As I recall this was actually more "fair"...not even going to discuss plexonomics lol. Seem to recall my power of 2 deals saved enough on the 6 month run to have me break even, or not complain too much at any rate, on the RL money spent on transfer to the main account when done. As I recall this how the main account loaded up 2 specialized alt trains for reasonable costs on 2 PO2 cycles.