Player Features and Ideas Discussion

My own impression of the numbers is that Plex prices are increasing while average online characters are decreasing. But one thing does not necessarily cause the other.

Plex Prices are 1.1+ billion at the point of writing this. But as long as it hurts others more than me, I could care less.

A pile of plex also represents a bunch of isk for someone. Isk they can use to create content. Why is your content more important than theirs? And why shouldn't they try to maximise their isk gains so they can maximise the content they create?

Grinding longer is content itself and content for the people around the grinders.

I know its not a fun chore. So why do you choose to do it? Because you value the time it takes to grind isk less than the money it costs to sub for a month.
Clearly plex prices arent high enough yet.

So, anecdotally, you have a friend who made 0.00 ISK.

Understood.

PLEX is the EvE equivalent of gold. Get with the times.

Those active players are not giving ccp money. They lose nothing if those players leave. They get more money if these players switch from plexing to paying for their sub.

Instead, the more isk plex is worth, the more ppl who are inclined to buy plex with rl money and cash in the isk. This means ccp get more money.

Tl:Dr
The higher the plex price the more money ccp make.

Since all plex are paid for with cash, ccp makes money whether the account is plexed or not. If the price of plex is so high that the university/underemployed nerds(who are almost always the ones driving content) unsubscribe their spare accounts or win eve, then this reduces content for the rest of us, and income for ccp.

Can we at least agree that if ccp does implement such a policy, that afterwards I should be referred to as theGRRRy?

Maybe CCP should keep an eye out for a correlation between PLEX hoarding and sub numbers?

Oh. They do.

If my 2 cents were worth anything, which they are not, but if they were this is what I would say on the subject.

The only people that the insane costs of plex are hurting are the new players, who can just barely afford the monthly subscription fee and want to continue playing the game by plexing. It can be very difficult for a new player to earn the insane amount of isk required to continue playing. So they subscribe for a month, reading all this awesome stuff online about how they can plex to keep their account running, realize their poorly fitted T1 cruiser can't cut it in making the 1.2 bil per month required to plex, and they quit playing the game literally because they cannot afford to keep a sub going.

HOWEVER. It HELPS new players in that if they CAN afford to sub the game, an extra $15 gets them 1.2 bil ISK to buy ships and all kinds of other things with. Although it's sad that plex has gotten uncontrollably expensive lately, it's a "coin" issue, where there are 2 sides to it. Is it hurting CCP directly? I highly doubt it. if anything, I see more and more plex out there and I hear more and more people talking about PLEX. I see many new players come to the game because they spent even $30 on top of their subscription which they are happy paying and became instant billionairs.

I think CCP is going to sit on this subject for a while and let it roll. I'm sure they are monitoring their PLEX purchases carefully. "IMO", plex is a non-issue.